Obituary – Tom Robertson
Tom Robertson was the former Director Biometrics, Ministry Agriculture and Fisheries. He died in his 87th year. His death notice…
Retirement after 54 years – on the third go
Associate Prof John Harraway has taught for 54 years in the University of Otago’s mathematics and statistics…
Kit Yates: Maths, a matter of life and death
Another RNZ podcast, as much statistical as mathematical https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018712945/kit-yates-maths-a-matter-of-life-and-death For example, statistics badly applied did lead to Sally Clarke’s death.…
Hadley Wickham – open source data wrangler
New Zealand-born data scientist Hadley Wickham is developing open source ways to help people collect and analyse the information…
Sir David Spiegelhalter on Radio New Zealand
Sir David Spiegelhalter talks for 50 minutes with Kim Hill: https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018712277/david-spiegelhalter-the-art-of-statistics “In his new book The Art of Statistics the Cambridge…
Genetics Society of America Award to Bruce Weir
Genetics Society of America (GSA) Grants 2019 Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education to Bruce Weir Bruce…
Prestigious award for Hadley Wickham
Kiwi Hadley Wickham has won a prestigious international statistics award for his outstanding contributions to the profession. …
Obituary – Ken Russell
Ken Russell (ex Victoria University of Wellington) passed away peacefully in Wollongong on 16 July after suffering from cancer, in his…
Data Science curriculum frameworks for schools
INVITATION TO COMMENT on draft, BY 31 MAY 2019 The International Data Science for Schools Project (IDSSP) is an international…