Demand for data science education is surging and traditional courses offered by statistics
departments are not meeting the needs of those seeking training. This has led to a number …

More than 50 years ago, John Tukey called for a reformation of academic statistics. In 'The
Future of Data Analysis', he pointed to the existence of an as-yet unrecognized science …

Data science is an emerging interdisciplinary field that combines elements of mathematics,
statistics, computer science, and knowledge in a particular application domain for the …

A growing number of students are completing undergraduate degrees in statistics and
entering the workforce as data analysts. In these positions, they are expected to understand …

The proliferation of vast quantities of available datasets that are large and complex in nature
has challenged universities to keep up with the demand for graduates trained in both the …

More than 50 years ago, John Tukey called for a reformation of academic statistics. In “The
Future of Data Analysis,” he pointed to the existence of an as-yet unrecognized science …

The nature of statistics is changing significantly with many opportunities to broaden the
discipline and its impact on science and policy. To realize this potential, our curricula and …

Modern statistics is fundamentally a computational discipline, but too often this fact is not
reflected in our statistics curricula. With the rise of big data and data science, it has become …

Significant efforts have been made to overhaul the introductory statistics courses by placing
greater emphasis on statistical thinking and literacy and less on rules, methods and …

Many have argued that statistics students need additional facility to express statistical
computations. By introducing students to commonplace tools for data management …