eUSR - 2022 Program

Virtual Video Presentation Session

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Opening Remarks

By Jingchen (Monika) Hu, Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Vassar College

Plenary Talks by USPROC Award Winners

12:10 - 12:20 p.m.: Maxwell VanLandschoot, Sung Bum (Simon) Ahn, and Robin Hart, Reed College

• Addressing Inequality Through Modeling: Updating Public Defense Funding Models in Washington State

12:21 - 12:31 p.m.: Veronica Lee, New College of Florida

• Spatial Modeling of Bird Population Using Citizen Science Data

12:32 - 12:42 p.m.: Sinclaire Schuetze and Valerie Tseng, Wellesley College

• Uncovering the Relationship between Online News Characteristics and Popularity

12:43 - 12:53 p.m.: Clare Sparling and Cordelia Hume, Duke University

• Electronic Health Records - The New Future of Healthcare?

12:54 - 1:04 p.m.: Grace Rade and Audrey Kim, Smith College

• Analysis of Age, Race, and Income as Factors of Work Time

1:05 - 1:15 p.m.: Ian Johnston, University of Notre Dame

• Statistical Analysis of Factors Impacting Hotel Review Scores in the Las Vegas Strip

1:16 - 1:26 p.m.: Mayla Ward, Leah Albaugh, and Martin Ringman, Western Washington University

• A Retrospective Look at Covid-19 Testing Performance

1:27 - 1:37 p.m.: Duy Nguyen and Sarah Huang, Grinnell College

• Novel Method of Culturing Bacteria Using Soil Extract and Nutrient-Rich Broths

1:38 - 1:48 p.m.: Gian Castillero, Duke University

• Blue Blood Basketball

1:49 - 1:59 p.m.: Aditi Singh, Denison University

• Computational Analysis of the Transformation of Former Colonial Countries

Keynote Address

Asking good questions: A key to success in statistics and data science

Presented by: Susan Paddock, Chief Statistician and Executive Vice President, NORC.

Our career success and personal fulfillment as statisticians and data scientists rely on our ability to ask good questions of ourselves and of others, and to engage with others who ask us good questions. However, as demonstrated by the existence of entire scientific disciplines devoted to asking good questions, it is not necessarily easy to do so. I will touch upon three domains encountered by statisticians and data scientists for which asking good questions can reveal important insights: navigating our career development, evaluating and improving data quality, and leading our collaborators and teams to success.

Student Moderators: Brian Cochran and Emma Jobe, Cornell College

Graduate School Information Session

Surya Tokdar, Professor of Statistical Science, Duke University
Becky Tang, Assistant Professor of Statistics, Middlebury College
Anna Neufeld, PhD candidate in Statistics, University of Washington
Elliot Pickens, Pre-doc Researcher, Microsoft Research

Student Moderators: Patrizia Picado and Priscilla Liu, Smith College

Panel Discussion About Careers

Susan Wang, Senior Data Scientist, Google (Youtube)
Walker Harrison, Analyst, Quantitative Analysis at New York Yankees
Clayton Knappenberger, Data Scientist, U.S. Census Bureau
Sarah Boese, Analyst, Wisconsin Department of Health Services

Student Moderators: Jing Shang and Asteria Chilambo, Harvard University

Closing Remarks