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RSS 2021 Statistical Excellence in Journalism Awards
1st March 2021
The Royal Statistical Society have announced details of their 2021 statistical excellence in journalism awards. Criteria The awards are open to all journalists (print, online and broadcast),...
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IASE 2021 Satellite Conference: Statistics Education in the Era of Data Science
30th August 2021 to 4th September 2021
The International Association for Statistical Education (IASE) is pleased to announce that its 12th Satellite Conference will take place from 30 August to 4 September 2021, a few weeks after the...
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Using Data to Change Lives
21st April 2021 to 22nd April 2021
Training for charities and not-for-profits Understanding Society has launched a free training programme to help third sector organisations use household and longitudinal data. Aimed at new data...
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Open Access: Nowcasting monthly GDP with big data: A model averaging approach
11th February 2021
Each week, we select a recently published Open Access article to feature. This week’s article comes from Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) and considers...
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February 2021 issue of Significance just published!
5th February 2021
The February 2021 issue (18:1) of Significance has just been published. Included in this issue: Ron Fricker assesses the impact of the pandemic in the United States by calculating the number of...
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63rd ISI WSC 2021: Call for Contributed Paper/Poster Proposals is now open
4th February 2021
The 63rd ISI WSC 2021 will be held 11-16 July as a virtual conference. The WSC theme “Statistics and Data Science for a Better World” highlights the developments and contributions of statistics...
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Open Access: Exploiting new forms of data to study the private rented sector: Strengths and limitations of a database of rental listings
4th February 2021
Each week, we select a recently published Open Access article to feature. This week’s article comes from Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) and considers the...
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Enter the 2021 Significance writing competition for early-career statisticians and data scientists
2nd February 2021
Significance, in partnership with the Young Statisticians Section of the Royal Statistical Society has announced the 2021 Statistical Excellence Award for Early-Career Writing. This...
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Deadline for Nominations for the ISI’s Mahalanobis International Award Extended
22nd January 2021
The deadline for nominations for the International Statistical Institute's prestigious Mahalanobis International Award has been extended to 15 February 2021. The Mahalanobis International Award...
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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A Launches Twitter Account
18th January 2021
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A has launched its own Twitter account @RSeriesa with the aim of sharing all the great work published in the journal. We welcome Francisco Rowe who...
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