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NYC ASA VIRTUAL SEMINAR

The ASA NYC Metro Area Chapter is hosting a virtual seminar on Data Quality: From Frameworks to Screening, by Kelly H. Zou and Marc L. Berger, on Thursday, March 21, 2024, from 3:00 to 5:00 PM (US ET). The ASA Caucus of Industry Representatives (CIR) is a non-financial co-sponsor. Registration is closed.

NYC OPEN DATA

The ASA NYC Metro Area Chapter is involved in an emerging collaboration with ASA National, the ASA Section on Statistical Computing, and the NYC Office of Technology and Innovation. NYC Open Data is free public data published by city agencies and other partners.

Use the links below to view the program, for event details, and to register.

NYC Open Data Week: March 16-24, 2024 | NYC School of Data: March 23, 2024 | Data Through Design (DxD) Exhibition: March 15-24, 2024

ASA VIRTUAL TRAVELING COURSE

The chapter is hosting an ASA Traveling Course, Data: Ethical Issues and Best Practices and Ethical Issues and Best Practices in Analytics. The instructor is David Corliss and it will be held virtually on Thursday & Friday, November 7 & 8, 2024, from 1:00 to 5:00 PM (US ET). Save the dates - registration details will follow.

CHAPTER CHATTER (Fall 2023) is a newsletter published by the ASA Council of Chapters and is a great way to find out what other chapters are doing. All chapters are encouraged to share what is going on with their chapter. The chapter has an article in the Fall 2023 and Spring 2023 issues. Chapter Chatter archive.

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PAST NEWS

THE INAUGURAL STATISTICAL INNOVATION COMMUNITY SUMMIT

The Inaugural Statistical Innovation Community Summit, sponsored by the NYC Metro Area Chapter of the ASA and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, was a one-day hybrid workshop on Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges of Statistical Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry and Health Agencies. It was held Thursday, November 9, at Regeneron in Tarrytown, New York. The workshop was well-received and well-attended.

The keynote session, Maximizing the Impact of Innovative Statistical Methods in Partnership with Health Agencies, was chaired by Bret Musser (Regeneron), and the keynote speakers were John Scott (FDA), Jose Pinheiro (Johnson & Johnson), Ying Yuan (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center), and Neal Thomas (Independent Consultant).

INAUGURAL STATISTICS AND LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS WORKSHOP

The inaugural Statistics and Large Language Models (LLMs) Workshop sponsored by the Columbia University Department of Statistics, ASA NYC Metro Area Chapter, and ASA Section on Text Analysis was the chapter's first in-person event since the pandemic and its first collaboration with an ASA Section. The workshop was on July 24 at Columbia University.

The invited speakers were Bob Carpenter (Flatiron Institute), Sachit Menon (Columbia University), Claudia Shi (Columbia University), Marjan Kamyab (IQVIA NLP), and Kaitlyn Whyte (IQVIA NLP). The moderator was Professor David Banks (Duke University), who also led an in-depth conversation about the roles of statistics in an era of LLMs, not only on the opportunities for statistical innovation, but also the potential risks. Presentation slides are available on the chapter's event page.

The scientific program committee was David Banks, Marcia Levenstein, Cynthia Scherer, Brandon Sepulvado, Tian Zheng, and Kelly H. Zou.

"Workshop Focuses on Role of Statistics in LLM Era" (David Banks, Duke University, Amstat News, 2 October 2023) | Amstat News (September 2023) AI Special Issue


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