Posts Tagged ‘Statistics’

R creators win prestigious Statistical Computing and Graphics Award – Revolutions

February 3rd, 2010

The American Statistical Association recently created a new, bi-annual award to to recognize an individual or team for innovation in computing, software, or graphics that has had a great impact on statistical practice or research. The committee has just announced the winner (or in this, joint winners) of the first award: Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka, for their work in initiating the R Project for Statistical Computing.”

via Revolutions: R creators win prestigious Statistical Computing and Graphics Award.

Statisticians: The new “cool”?

February 28th, 2009

Google’s Chief Economist, Hal Varian, says “the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians.” Sounds great.[Source The McKinsey Quarterly (http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Hal_Varian_on_how_the_Web_challenges_managers_2286), via the Flowingdata blog (http://flowingdata.com/2009/02/25/googles-chief-economist-hal-varian-on-statistics-and-data/).]

What will data visualization look like in 10 years? Will the goals change? Will there be a fundamental shift in what data mean for businesses, or just how it’s reported? Time will tell, but in any event…

I’d better start working on my statistics :)