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Mike West is distinguished speaker in Mathematical Sciences Spring Lecture Series
Wednesday, April 10, 2019Mike West is the distinguished speaker at the annual Spring Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences at the University of Arkansas, April 18-20th 2019. The NSF-supported Spring Lecture Series in the Mathematical Sciences has been running annually since 1977. This is the first... Read More »
Statistical Science undergraduate Jacob Shulman at the Supreme Court!
Friday, April 5, 2019Over the past year I have had the privilege to work on an interdisciplinary Bass-Connections team working to quantify gerrymandering. Our aim is to turn gerrymandering from a subjective discussion about how squiggly a district looks, into a rigorous mathematically formulated problem. At a high... Read More »
David Dunson to deliver 2019 IMS Medallion lecture
Tuesday, March 26, 2019Professor David Dunson will deliver one of the Medallion lectures at the 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings. The Medallion lectures are sponsored by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). They are one of the IMS's highest honors. For a summary of the award and the topic of Professor... Read More »
The Department of Statistical Science at Duke University is inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Associate
Monday, March 25, 2019The Department of Statistical Science at Duke University is inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Associate in statistical science with Professor Rebecca Steorts (https://resteorts.github.io/. The Associate will work on methodological research related to one or more of the following topics,... Read More »
Machine Learning Day - Saturday, March 23, 2019 News
Tuesday, February 19, 2019If you're an undergraduate at Duke and a female and doing research at Duke, I would like to encourage you to apply to give a spotlight presentation at Duke Undergraduate Machine Learning Day. http://dukeml.org/ml-day.html MS and PhD students can also apply, but first priority will be given to... Read More »
So, You’ve Decided to Study Data Science … Now What?
Thursday, February 14, 2019Statistical Science Major James Chenyang Wang is a data storyteller at Duke and an incoming product analyst at Thumbtack. He loves slide tacklings in soccer. Read his article on Data Science on STATtr@k.
Alumna Kristian Lum in the News
Monday, February 4, 2019Justice by the Numbers: Meet the Statistician trying to fix Bias in Criminal Justice Algorithms When the underlying data they rely on is incomplete—and it often is—the growing use of machine learning tools in America's criminal justice system can have devastating effects
Abbas Zaidi receives JSM 2019 Best Student Paper Award
Thursday, January 17, 2019Abbas Zaidi was awarded Best Student Paper award titled Gaussian Process Mixtures for Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects The Business and Economic Statistics Section (B&E) of the American Statistical Association (ASA) offers this award for student... Read More »
DataFest 2019 has been scheduled!
Monday, January 7, 2019Please save the date for DataFest 2019, which will be held over the April 5-7 weekend at Penn Pavillion. More information to follow in the next month. We'll post updates at https://www2.stat.duke.edu/datafest/
Datathon 2018 Feature Story
Tuesday, October 30, 2018Cracking the Code on Credit Cards at Datathon 2018