The chapter hosted an ASA Traveling Course, Data: Ethical Issues and Best Practices and Ethical Issues and Best Practices in Analytics, taught by David Corliss. It was held virtually on Thursday & Friday, November 7 & 8, 2024.

The election ballot for NYC Metro Area Chapter Officers for the term beginning January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2026, has been sent to eligible chapter members. For details regarding Chapter Officers and the election process, refer to the Chapter's Constitution and By-Laws. For questions, please contact the chapter.

Most recent award recipients of the Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award.

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Biostatistics Master's degree students, Zhiheng (Henry) Shi, Xinyi (Anna) Shang, and Siqi (Amber) Wang collaborated closely with a digital content expert Yirun (Erin) Wang, who received her Master's degree from the Carnegie Mellon University.

With their mentors, Kel Zou and Dhaval Patel, Co-Founders of AI4Purpose Inc., the team was the semi-finalist in HITLAB's 2024 Women's Health Tech challenge.

Along with Huachen (Charles) Shan, these graduate students won the Grand Prize in the 2024 Columbia University Biomedical Engineering Society's Hacking Health hackathon earlier this year.

The team developed a digital solution named "AIM" to predict and warn maternal and infant sepsis through artificial intelligence and machine learning. The team also showcased their work at Reuters Events.

Links: https://bmesatcolumbia.wixsite.com/columbia-bmes/copy-of-home | https://www.hitlab.org/wht-challenge

Save the date: ASA Giving Day is November 22, 2024.

Chapter Chatter 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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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. NYC Open Data Week 2024 | NYC School of Data 2024 | Data Through Design (DxD) Exhibition 2024

The ASA NYC Metro Area Chapter hosted a virtual seminar on Data Quality: From Frameworks to Screening, by Kelly H. Zou and Marc L. Berger, on Thursday, March 21, 2024. The ASA Caucus of Industry Representatives (CIR) was a non-financial co-sponsor.

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).

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