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In This Issue SCASA: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHA P- E-Tidings Newsletter TER OF THE AMERI- CAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION SCASA Events and News VOLUME 8, ISSUES 1 - 2 JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2019 In This Issue Page 2: New SCASA board Pages 3-4: Presidential address Page 5: Book Club Page 6: Online store Page 7: Statistics Poster competition Page 8: DataFest Page 9: Careers Day Page 10: Applied Statistics Workshop Page 11: Traveling course Page 12: Job Opening Announcement Page 13: Dr. Normalcurvesaurus, Ph.D. presents The answer is at the bottom of this issue. http://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsletters VOLUME 8, ISSUES 1 - 2 P A G E 2 SCASA Officers 2019-2020 : CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL ELECTED AND RE-ELECTED!!! We have the newly elected SCASA board!!! Congratulations to Everyone!!! President: James Joseph, AKAKIA [[email protected]] President-Elect: Rebecca Le, County of Riverside [[email protected]] Immediate Past President: Olga Korosteleva, CSULB [[email protected]] Treasurer: Olga Korosteleva, CSULB [[email protected]] Secretary: Michael Tsiang, UCLA [[email protected]] Vice President of Professional Affairs: Anna Liza Antonio, Enterprise Analytics [[email protected]] Vice President of Academic Affairs: Shujie Ma, UCR [[email protected]] Vice President for Student Affairs: Anna Yu Lee, APU and Claremont Graduate University [[email protected]] The ASA Council of Chapters Representative: Harold Dyck, CSUSB [[email protected]] ENewsletter Editor-in-Chief: Olga Korosteleva, CSULB [[email protected]] Chair of the Applied Statistics Workshop Committee: James Joseph, AKAKIA [[email protected]] Treasurer of the Applied Statistics Workshop: Rebecca Le, County of Riverside [[email protected]] Webmaster: Anthony Doan, CSULB [[email protected]] http://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsletters P A G E 3 VOLUME 8, ISSUES 1 - 2 “GROW STRONG” Presidential Address Southern California may be the most diverse job market in the United States, if not the world. Our chapter's winning logo is an ode to statistics and all the backyards we play in. Statistics has evolved by its application in many different professions. It's a tool used by those who seek truth and those who act like they know it. Since being established in 1925, the Los An- geles Chapter, now a larger Southern California Chapter (SC-ASA), has actively promoted the Sci- ence of Statistics. This is only my fifth year in Los Angeles, but thanks to the warm welcome of board mem- bers before me, especially Past-President Olga Korosteleva, VP of Student Affairs Anna Yu Lee, and Secretary Michael Tsiang, and around me, like Harold and Madeline, I’ve become more ac- quainted with the broad community. Now, I’m glad to join new officers: President-Elect Rebecca Le, VP of Professional Affairs Anna Liza Antonio, VP of Academic Affairs Shujie Ma, and Webmas- ter Anthony Doan. Thank you, all, for carrying the torch and leading us into another year. I actually began my ASA journey at the Philadelphia Chapter (ASA-P). I was looking to break into the pharmaceutical industry after earning my Bachelor's in Statistics from Penn State. Fortunate to meet Past ASA President, Dr. Sally Morton, at the Summer Institute of Training in Bi- ostatistics at the University of Pittsburgh, she led me to reach out to my local ASA chapter. ASA-P welcomed me with open arms at their local events before formally inviting me to volunteer as their first Student Representative. Together, we spearheaded a local Career Panel and, with the help of my former AP Statistics teacher, Mr. Eric Reid, we hosted it at the high school I attended. By the way, did you know that much like our very-own AP Poster Competition in April, ASA-P members volunteer as judges at the Delaware Valley Science Fair? Anyways, before arriving here at SC-ASA, I also served a brief stint as Secretary on the ASA Council of Sections during which time I had the chance to attend an annual meeting at our association’s HQ in Alexandria, VA. I get really excited for our annual events. First, meeting local students at our AP Stat Poster Com- petition and DataFest. Then, joining professionals at our Careers Day. Next, everyone attends our Applied Statistics Workshop to learn from expert practitioners performing live "data science". Be- fore the new year, we host Traveling Course and Kick-Off Meeting to celebrate advances in the field, while dedicating some time to review the past year in order to prepare for the next. Continues on the next page... http://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsletters P A G E 4 VOLUME 8, ISSUES 1 - 2 “GROW STRONG” Presidential Address … continued from the previous page. We notice that Statistics is the common thread between many practices - the quintessen- tial science. In fact, I minored in three different sciences: a social one, Psychology; a medical one, Biology; and, an engineering one, Six Sigma. I tied it all together by defending a Master's thesis that analyzed preventative healthcare programs as an investment area. Now, I love creating apps for clinical and financial researchers around the world as I learn to manage all the uncertainties in between! Becoming a member of the American Statistical Association helped me Grow Strong! As a professional society, our network, know-how and meetups not only give people a chance to get into the game , but also to get ahead of it. Our organization must adapt to survive various pressures like any other living thing. Trendy ML, AI and data sci events compete to engage our community. Our network, focused on advancing the science and application of statistics, has stood the test of time... so far. Legendary investor Peter Lynch once said, "invest in a business any idiot could run because someday one will." I say, join a chapter any data scientist could run, because someday one will! ;) I recently received the Charter and Gavel from our Past-President, Dr. Olga, to mark my transition into the Presidency. Of course, we want every elected board member to be successful in building a better SC-ASA. To do so, we need to ensure that our policies enable continuous im- provement in accordance to our chapter's vision and our society's mission. We must define and measure the direction we choose to go in order to identify and overcome obstacles on the way there. Our Chapter is at best when we draw from our entire range of perspectives in all of our multi-disciplinary glory! So, before then, I invite everyone to inquire deeply about our Chapter - past, present and future, failures and successes - to prepare a discussion about how to continue to Grow Strong, together. Sincerely, James Joseph SC-ASA President http://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsletters P A G E 5 VOLUME 8, ISSUES 1 - 2 JOIN the SCASA Book Club! In January and February, we are reading The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ulti- mate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Domingos, Pedro, Basic Books, 2015. Everyone is welcome to join and chat about the contents, likes and dislikes, bounce ideas, ask ques- tions, provide answers on our newly created book chat at t.me/sc_asa. More information about the club can be found under the tab “Book Club” at https://community.amstat.org/scasa/home http://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsletters VOLUME 8, ISSUES 1 - 2 P A G E 6 WE ARE LAUNCHING https://www.scasa.shop/shop The purpose of this shop is to supply the SCASA community with en- viable goodies, and, as a byproduct, to raise funds for our chapter. I took a sneak preview of the shop and couldn’t refrain from buying a lot of items. Now this is how my life looks like.— SCASA Past- President http://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsletters P A G E 7 VOLUME 8, ISSUES 1 - 2 SCASA 14th Annual Stat Poster Competition Date: Saturday, April 13th, 2019 Time: 10AM-5PM for judges and volunteers, 12:30PM-5PM for students Location: Cross Campus HQ, 929 Colorado Ave, Santa Monica, CA Sponsors: LA Counts and The Los Angeles Times Data Desk To register as a student or a judge, to read about rules, scoring, and prizes, please visit postercomp.org. CALLING ALL JUDGES AND http://community.amstat.org/scasa/newsletters VOLUME 8, ISSUES 1 - 2 P A G E 8 ASA DataFest 2019 in Southern California UCLA • April 5-7 ◊ Chapman University • May 3-5 By Madeline Bauer, USC (retired), Michael Fahy (Chapman University), and Rob Gould (UCLA) Professor Rob Gould started DataFest in 2011 at UCLA with just 30 students. ASA DataFest is now sponsored by the American Statistical Association. Last year, more than 2000 students took part at over 20 sites in the US, Canada, and Germany. This event has become so popular in Southern California that a second SoCal site was added at Chapman University for the 2017 ASA DataFest. In 2018, both the UCLA and the Chapman University sites had to turn students away! How you can support DataFest: There are three ways you can support DataFestTM as either an individual or a business: ❶ Please consider visiting as a Visiting Consultant. This is perhaps the most important support. Every year, students cite their interactions with the visitors as the most valuable component of DataFest. UCLA DataFest: http://datafest.stat.ucla.edu/ (Look under "Support DataFest") Chapman DataFest: www.chapman.edu/datafest Spend an hour or two getting to know the students and offering your sage advice. This is an excellent recruiting opportunity; you get to watch students working in teams, under pressure, striving to understand possibly the most complex data set they have encountered.
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