Speaker: Susan Paddock, Chief Statistician, NORC (Univ. of Chicago)
Title: Asking good questions: A key to success in statistics and data science
Keynote at the Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference (eUSR)
Abstract: 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.
Bonus eUSR sessions for an extended (virtual) QClub in Bloomer:
3:00-3:45 Graduate School Information Session with reps from Duke, Middlebury, Univ. of Washington, and Microsoft Research
3:45-4:30 Panel Discussion about Careers with reps from Google, NY Yankees, US Census Bureau, and Wisconsin Health Services
The Q-Club, which is short for "Quantitative Club," is the departmental student organization, boasting over fifty members. Students speak on their research or share their internship and summer program experiences.
All are welcome to attend; any questions please contact the club advisor, Lisa Torrey.