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Statisticians in the News

News agencies across the globe are reporting on statistics, on important developments in the fields of statistical application and how statisticians are contributing in the areas of scientific advancement, discovery and innovation. The following are a small sampling of these articles:

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December 2012

• Baylor Statistics Professor Thomas L. Bratcher Passes



• RGIII is a Ravens fan. Really.



• Leading statistician appointed founding chair of biostatistics at UF



• Cool Jobs: Mark Lamias, Statistical Consultant



• Big data blasts off in 2013



• Kadane Urges Argentina To Stop Repressing Statisticians



• Celebrity Statistician Silver Fields Questions at Google



• Statistician Probes Missing Link Between Diet and Cancer



• Statistician Use Remains Guarded in NFL



• Lester Manderscheid, Michigan State Professor, Dies

November 2012

• Allure of the statistics field grows



• W. Jackson "Jack" Hall, Ph.D., ASA Fellow, Dies



• Statisticians: Spot-on Election Predictions and So Much More



• Moneyball, the 2012 Campaign, and the Limits of Political Sabermetrics



• Hollywood Comes A-Knockin For Politics' Uber Statistician



• Why data scientists are in demand and how they enable big data



• Statistical Literacy in K-12 is Essential (See page 32)



• The Statisticians on the Bus



• After 2012 Election, Statistician Finds Celebrity



• Computer prediction the way of the future



• Selma M. Taffel, statistician and researcher, dies



• Statisticians Squash Media Pundits in Calling the Election



• Number crunchers were right about Obama win



• Obama win big vindication for Silver



• 10,000 Students Learning Statistics



• Five-statistician family writes improbable textbook



• Statistician links medicine, genetics in lecture at Elon



• Interview: Rachel Schutt, Google Research Group Statistician



• Cliff Spiegelman Takes Statistics to the Courtroom



• Andrew Gelman: What Too Close to Call Really Means



• Why Democrats probably won't take back the House



• Economists' Goal: A Measure for All Seasons

October 2012

• Guyana Finance Minister lauds statisticians



• Statistician: India is losing out on quality & timeliness of data



• Big data to create 1.9M U.S. jobs by 2015



• Kadane Honored as Chicago Chapter Statistician of the Year



• Census Acting Director Receives Executive Leadership Award



• ASA Member Leads CDC Cholesterol Study



• Jack Hall, Influential Statistics Expert, Dies



• "Serious deficit" in UK quantitative skills, claims new report



• EU Statisticians Transformed Into Feared Debt Police



• Spotlight on Commerce: Ana Valentin, Statistician, NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service



• 47 (percent): A prime number in politics and a whole lot else



• Officials reject conspiracists' charges that Obama campaign manipulated unemployment rate



• Don't impugn the employment stats messengers



• Germans Seek Vorsprung Durch Statistik



• The Big Data revolution: Big Bang or loud noise?



• In the Tech Jobs Market, Data Analysis Is Tops



• Big Data's Growing Pains: Talent Not Technology



• Data Scientists Will Not Be Replaced by Automation



• Australia Statistician Finds Country Is $338 Billion Wealthier



• Data Scientists: The Definition of Sexy



• Businesses starting to catch on to big data



• Unlocking Big Government Data: Whose Job Is It?



• Agricultural statistician Jose S. Gutierrez dies

September 2012

• Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century



• Apple's market cap could reach $1 trillion by 2015, statisticians say



• Statistician Works to Blend Computer Science With Journalism



• Why Fingerprints Aren't the Proof We Thought They Were



• Data Scientist: Consider the Curriculum



• Statisticians Gather in Seoul to Discuss ICT4E Indicators



• Reinforcing Eurostat, Reinforcing high quality statistics



• Cancer overtakes heart disease as No. 1 killer of Hispanics; rest of US will soon follow



• Big v. Small Data - Why Marketers Today Need to Know the Difference



• What Executives Don't Understand About Big Data



• Statistician Ji Meng Loh Appointed to NJIT Faculty as Associate Professor



• Statisticians Calculate Probability Of Another 9/11 Attack



• Berkeley statisticians help find function of “junk” DNA in human genome



• How do I become a data scientist?



• Study: Data scientists are the top athletes of the enterprise world



• Data scientists: supermodels, football stars … or artists?



• Data scientist: The new kid on the IT block!



• Soccer Embraces Big Data to Quantify the Beautiful Game



• Top 6 big data issues



• Data Scientists: Meet Big Data's Top Guns

August 2012

• ASA Member David Marker's Testimony Factors in Texas ID Voter Law Ruling (See page 40 of court's decision)



• Biologists meet statisticians: A workshop for young scientists to foster interdisciplinary team work



• Harvesters seeing how bad corn is



• Big Data bites back: How to handle those unwieldy digits



• Every CEO Needs a Data Scientist



• Big Data Takes Center Stage In The 2012 Presidential Election



• UBC statistician picks apart popular algorithm used to screen chlamydia



• Marketers are less statistical than, um, statisticians



• Drought's Still Deep In Nation's Midsection



• What Every Statistician Should Know About Computer Science (and Vice-Versa)



• UAB award honors achievement in statistical sciences



• How to become a data scientist



• What's in a Name?



• Texas Tech mathematician leaves for Jefferson Fellowship



• Xiao-Li Meng New Dean of Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences



• Arctic sea ice set to hit record low



• 3 Key Analytics Questions to Ask Your Big Data



• Data Science & The Role of the Data Scientist



• When Olympic Medals Are Weighted Against Each Country's GDP, Russia Wins



• Nerdvana: Census Bureau Statisticians Gush over U.S. Population Reaching Multiple of Pi



• 'Big data' could help solve Canada's productivity problem



• Top 5 cities for big data jobs



• Data Scientist: Hot Big Data Job



• Johns Hopkins University Professor Louis Named to Lead Census Bureau Research Directorate



• Medal Count Favors U.S.



• Jobs report: 'Worthless and misleading'



• Concussions in NFL down from last season because of kickoff rule change, study finds



• Everything You Need to Know About Arctic Sea Ice Melt, in One 10-Second Animated Gif



• Some improvement in heart risk factors for Americans: CDC



• Fantasy Football Guru and Mensa Statistician 'Crack the Code' on Fantasy Football Draft, Guarantee Users Super Bowl Appearance

July 2012

• Dimmed excellence: 'American advantages serve those who can afford them'



• The Serious Task of Judging Games



• Three Senior Hires for Symphony



• Thursday: USGS talk on wind power and wildlife



• Seabreeze grad beefs up weightlifting on TV



• Academic details the end of the American dream



• London 2012 Athletics Statistics Book available for download



• You can guess the ending in the legend of the ox



• More Than a Third of Births 'Unintended': CDC



• How to Make Things Well: Genichi Taguchi, 1924-2012



• CDC report ranks Montana fifth in gun related deaths



• Red Sox advisor: Media responsible for Sandusky cover up



• Author details end of American dream



• Conatus Pharmaceuticals Appoints Mark F. Morris as Head of Biostatistics



• Red Sox Tell Advisor, Renowned Statistician Bill James To Curb All Comments On Joe Paterno, Penn State



• Italy stats office threatens to stop issuing data



• Biostatistics is Blooming



• New Associate Director Tapped for NIH Office of Disease Prevention



• Michael LeBlanc named new head of SWOG statistical group



• Minitab Training for Manufacturing Quality Coming to Vancouver



• Dr. Dave Fluharty Joins ACT Research



• The Particle Proof



• How to Be Sure You've Found a Higgs Boson



• Fraud-Detection Tool Could Shake Up Psychology

June 2012

• American Statistical Association (ASA) Executive Director talks about promoting the practice and profession of statistics at UH JABSOM



• Paul Biemer Receives Award for Statistical Innovation



• Software Makers Shed Light On Big Data Issues In Data Mining and Predictive Analytics



• Can statistics cut the cost of US healthcare?



• Rain helps crops, but is it enough?



• Don't Replace Data With Ideology



• Planned Parenthood And High Deductible Insurance - Could The Combo Be The Answer?



• Climate Models Brought to a Consensus Using a New Technique



• New Cancer Data Shine Spotlight On The Secret Committees That Make Medicine's Toughest Decisions



• Study finds lower chromium background



• Low Income May Keep Cancer Patients Out of Clinical Trials



• Study questioned on effect of Sacramento County child-abuse counseling



• Dr. Abdul J Sankoh: The "Quiet Storm"

May 2012

• Leading statistician receives national citation award



• OSU research says North American global temperature will rise drastically by 2070



• DATCP board approves scope statement for farmland preservation



• Statistics Canada cuts raise privacy concerns



• Watch Hans Rosling use rocks to deliver the shortest TED talk ever



• The Economist Who Changed the Way We Think About Housing



• Melissa Begg, Vice Dean of Education at Columbia University, to Receive Inaugural Lagakos Distinguished Alumni Award



• Statistics study confirms temperature increase forecasts



• Privacy, quality of StatsCan information could be compromised: report
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• North Dakota Tops Alaska in Oil Output



• Analysis: Gay marriage decision not working in Obama's favor so far



• Health By Numbers: A Statistician's Challenge



• Most Popular Baby Names Revealed, and Isabella Loses No. 1 Slot



• Data miners find there's gold in them thar files



• Analytical Trend Troubles Scientists



• The maths behind winning lotto



• Study: Savings and risks in health insurance trend



• Study: Young online Israelis 'hyper-connected,' adults not far behind



• Today is International Nurses Day



• Nate Silver Predicts North Carolina Voters Will OK Gay Marriage Ban



• U.S. News 'looking into' reports of erroneous data in Best High Schools rankings



• Whistleblower Kenneth Jones wins appeal and forces Harvard to trial for research fraud

April 2012

• StatsCan, Manitoba spar over GDP growth



• Andrew Dilnot: A man to restore our trust in statistics



• Predict the 2012 election with our interactive tool!



• Men may soon outlive women



• Trust But Verify



• Current Research Not Sufficient to Assess Deterrent Effect of the Death Penalty



• Noise matters



• Statisticians to the rescue



• The 100 Most Influential People in the World: Hans Rosling



• Guest column: Political 'spin' comes very close to telling lies



• Scientists and bankers - a new model army



• Study says Walmart leads to drop in income, spending



• Are Women Less Satisfied With Their Care Than Men?



• Study shows narcissistic applicants are more successful in job interviews



• Baton Rouge, Texas trade transplants with New Orleans region, census data show



• Census Bureau director Groves to step down in August



• Gelman's Click-through Compromise for Statistical Graphics and Data Art



• IRS Conducted 36 High-Wealth Program Audits, Report Says



• .S. Teen Births Hit Record Low



• Greek Statistician Under Scrutiny for Budget Estimates Before Euro Crisis



• Sabermetrics: Are New Age Numbers in Baseball Replacing Common Sense?

March 2012

• Mega Millions: Statistics offer cold reality check



• Prof crunches the numbers behind love



• Our View: The Link charts a course



• Report: Maricopa County residents came from far and wide, left for farther and wider



• The Mighty Mathematician You've Never Heard Of



• Applications of R in Business Competition
  
  
• University expert builds list of sporting statues



• The expert branded a woman hater for saying breast cancer screening ruins lives



• Constantine Gatsonis: Better triage for chest pains



• C.R.Rao, Padma Vibhushan, received three Honorary Doctorate degrees



• Statistician key speaker at human resources meeting



• Debt vs. liberalism



• When Risk Is a Red-Meat Issue



• Hallmark: Monitor, adapt to anomalies



• The Argentine economy's fuzzy math problem



• Analysis: More drilling hasn't lowered gasoline prices



• Pitch to Plinth: Why do sporting statues exist?



• Texas A&M Science to Induct Two into Academy of Distinguished Former Students



• Asians fastest-growing race in United States, census finds



• Forest Informatics, Inc. and USDA-FS-PSW Redding Announce a New Hybrid Model for Young Plantations in California and Oregon



• A Turing Award for Helping Make Computers Smarter



• How to Mathematically Predict a Celebrity Divorce



• Myths That Can Murder Your Bracket



• Data Should Be Governed, No Matter How Big, No Matter How Small



• No Jobs For Americans



• Rich-Poor Gap Widest in Republican-Leaning States, Census Shows



• Report: 1 in 3 Americans Burdened With Medical Bills



• Black Swans and Doomed Turkeys



• Many U.S. Families Struggle to Pay Medical Bills



• A statistician who's spent his life lifting the fog of war



• The Body Counter



• Are they 'polling' Richmond's leg? What recent polls really mean for the city.



• Cullen: The 2012 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference



• Getting to the root of D.C.'s juvenile crime



• 1953: The Year That Revolutionized Life, Death, and the Digital Bit



• Poll company explains poll sample size, probability



• Woolly Mammoth Extinction Caused By Climate Change And Human Activity, 'Megafauna' Study Says



• Few HIV-Positive People Can Control Disease Progression Without Antiretrovirals



• Opposition to California's School Ranking System Grows



• Nonprofit project launches monthly jazz concerts in Triangle



• Tufts researchers leave to launch Brown University center on evidence-based medicine



• Cultivating Genius in the 21st Century



• America at Dow Milestones from Zero to 13,000



• The Retail Equation Names Dr. Daniel Downs As Company's First Statistical Criminologist



• Metals from hip replacements present toxic risk for millions, investigation warns

February 2012

• Cultivating Genius in the 21st Century



• America at Dow Milestones from Zero to 13,000



• February has brought spate of school shootings



• Does Winning An Oscar Make You Live Longer? Three Important Lessons From A Raging Scientific Debate



• Long-held idea about job creation challenged by statistics



• Argentina and the price of cooking the books, according to The Economist



• We've Figured Out What New York Scratch Ticket Has The Best Payout



• Judge: Bartender beaten by cop can take 'code of silence' claims to trial



• Cornell U. Scholar to Chair URMC Department of Biostatistics



• Report Affirms Lifesaving Role of Colonoscopy



• FDA Panel Votes in Favor of Qnexa
  
  
• The thought that counts



• Target Uses Analytics to Study Shopping Habits, Exposes Pregnant Teens



• Rick Santorum 2012: How He Can Win the Republican Nomination



• Mining an information explosion



• The new American worker: Scan-sheet proficient



• Will Obama Win in November? New Study Says, "Ask the Stock Market"



• In a calculating, chaotic world, statisticians are almost cool



• Two faculty named Sloan Research Fellows



• Filipina named head of UN statistical agency



• Fat chance that saturated fat causes heart disease



• A different way to test your message



• Data scientist carves out new life as sculptor



• CPI retooling could result in big savings for Ottawa, business



• Linternal Affairs: Statistician Predicted Jeremy Lin's Success 2 Years Ago



• The Age of Big Data



• Is The Recent DOJ Report On The Seattle Police Fair?



• Lawyers debate statistic expert's testimony in Racial Justice Act hearing



• Study: Doctors only advise 1 in 3 people to exercise



• First Nations populations soar



• Department of Justice owes the Seattle Police Department an apology



• Meet EPA Chief Statistician Barry D. Nussbaum



• Smokers report worse dental health, but go to dentists less often, CDC says



• The January jobs are statistical artifacts



• Colorado State University Professor Named the 2011 Aldo Leopold Memorial Award Winner



• StatsCan loses top economic analyst



• "Fibs lies and…..! Hold on, a Statistician picks up the ball on the US Prescription Drug crisis



• A Statistician Shares How To Pick Your Super Bowl Pool Like A Champ



• Democrats See a Shot at Retaking the House



• How not to deal with pensions



• Powerball chances revealed



• Big Data's Arrival



• Diagnostics tome comes under fire



• Statscan to abandon no-layoff policy as budget cuts loom

January 2012

• Statisticians are so hot right now



• What Are the Odds That Stats Would Be This Popular?



• Data Analytics Company Finds Fraud Is a Friend



• Arne Bathke Receives 2012 UK Alumni Association Great Teacher Award



• The numbers game



• Report: Americans Curbing Behaviors That Lead to HIV



• Election night numbers can signal fraud



• How Does Washington D.C. Count America's Homeless Vets?



• Los Alamos National Laboratory's Christine Anderson-Cook named Fellow of American Society for Quality



• Avoiding Bat Fatalities On Wind Farms: New Research Shows Promise



• The Ridiculously Low Probability Of Mitt Romney's 8-Vote Victory In Iowa



• Census Bureau Executive Roderick Little Selected for 2012 Fisher Lectureship and Award



• Data Analytics Can Backfire Without Experts



• A History Of Wall Street Profitability



• 65-and-Older Population Soars



• Forex cover to external debt falls, but not cause of worry yet



• New research helps predict bat presence at wind energy facilities



• Health concerns remain consistent



• Manipulating the Figures on US Unemployment: December Payroll Jobs Report



• Justice moves slow for teen accused of murder



• 'No evidence' of links between mega-earthquakes



• The Ridiculously Low Probability Of Mitt Romney's 8-Vote Victory In Iowa



• Double bubble: U.S. twin birth rates soar since 1980



• First Baby Names of 2012, From Adian to Zoey



• Forsyth County judges rated in new report



• Romney, Santorum Actually Tied Iowa Caucus, Experts Say



• Assessing quality