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Luiz Koodi Hotta Brazilian Statistical Association Here is the latest update on the
International Year of Statistics. Please share it with your
colleagues, and anyone who might be interested.
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Please check the
announcements page (http://statistics2013.org/announcements.cfm)
to read about plans for International Year of Statistics
celebrations. Please send us your announcements and we’ll
post them to the page.
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While you are online,
take a look at the activities page (http://statistics2013.org/activities.cfm).
You’ll see there is already at least one activity every month
during 2013. Who knows, eventually there may be at least one
activity every week, or every day! Send us information about
your activities, and we’ll post them online.
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If you have statistical
materials to share, materials that would be valuable to others
as they prepare to celebrate the International Year of
Statistics, please let us post them on the resources page (http://statistics2013.org/resources.cfm).
Send us the materials or a link to them, and we’ll post it.
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Do you have a question
that you would like to ask of the other participants in the
International Year of Statistics? Send me an email, and we’ll
include the question in the next update to the participants.
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We need your ideas! We
are developing posters to be used during 2013.
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Once created, these
posters will be available on the Statistics2013 website for
everyone to use.
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At
http://www.amstat.org/misc/IYSTATPoster.pdf you will see
one such poster idea. Please send me a note with one example
of an important contribution statistics has made in your part
of the world.
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We’ll select examples
from around the world, put them in the “bubbles” on the
poster, and make them available for translation into many
other languages.
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Please note these
bubbles are placed just to illustrate the idea of the poster,
and will be moved around as needed.
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Please spread the word
about the international video contest to help launch the
worldwide celebration of the positive impact of statistical
science.
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We invite videos of
four minutes in length or less that illustrate
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how statistics impacts
individual lives, improves society, or in general makes the
world more a better place
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how statistical
thinking can be brought to bear on important issues of our day
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interesting careers in
statistics (tell the world why your job in statistics is a
great job, or why it is interesting and fun to be a
statistician)
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Cash prizes of
$250-$1000 US will be offered for the best videos, with
special prizes for the best videos by a person or persons 18
years of age or less and the best non-English language videos.
(Providing us with a written translation or providing English
subtitles would be especially helpful.)
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Entries will be judged
on their statistical content and their entertainment
value. All submissions must be the original design and
creation of the entrants and must not infringe anyone
else’s copyright protections. Submissions must be posted on
YouTube with a link sent to Tom Short, chair of the
Statistics2013 Video Contest review committee, tshort@jcu.edu,
by October 31, 2012.
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Winning and honorable
mention videos will be posted on the International Year of
Statistics website throughout 2013.
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What can your
organization do celebrate the International Year of
Statistics?” Perhaps you could:
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Have a special
conference, or add a component on the International Year of
Statistics to your conferences already planned
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Hold special workshops
or symposia on important topics in statistics for your area
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Host events or develop
materials to promote to young people careers in statistics
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Develop new educational
materials to help improve some aspect of statistics
instruction in your area.
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Spread the word in your
area about the positive impact of statistics (get in your
local news, write blogs on the web, distribute brochures –
whatever works best for you)
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Have special editions
of your newsletters, journals or magazines related to
Statistics2013
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Use the opportunity to
make new partnerships and new friends
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As of today, July 20,
2012, there are 570 organizations from 89 countries signed on
as participating organizations.
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If you have colleagues
who would like to receive these updates, encourage them to go
to
http://statistics2013.org
and click on the “Get the Newsletter” button. That’s it for now. Thank you for your
support of the International Year of Statistics. Thank you! Ron Wasserstein, Executive Director, ASA,
on behalf of the International Year of Statistics Steering
Committee
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Richard Emsley, International
Biometric Society
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Adam Jakubowski, ISI/Bernoulli
Society
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Denise Lievesley, Royal
Statistical Society
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David Madigan, Institute of
Mathematical Statistics
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Vijay Nair, International
Statistical Institute
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Sastry Pantula, American
Statistical Association
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Ada van Krimpen, International
Statistical Institute |