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- I presented
"Rating competitors in games with strength-dependent tie probabilities"
at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto, ON, on August 9, 2023.
- I appeared on CBS News
on August 4, 2023, being interviewed about the Mega Millions lottery.
- I will be giving the talk "Data Tripper: Distinguishing Authorship
of Beatles Songs via Data Science" on Thursday, Oct 19, 2023, at 7:00-8:00pm
at the Harvard University Science Center.
This is a talk I had planned for April 2020, but was postponed for
obvious reasons.
Reserve a spot before they run out!
- I was interviewed for the July 26 episode of the
Harvard Data Science Review podcast
along with
Michael Schwimmer
from Big League Advantage
about various sports analytics topics.
- I will be presenting a plenary talk and workshop at the
2023 Conference of the South African Statistical Association
in Durban, South Africa, in November 2023.
- I was interviewed by John Williams
on July 14, 2023 on WGN Radio (Chicago)
to discuss the
Powerball lottery
and what you need to know to improve your expected winnings.
- I was interviewed for a
USA Today article
published on July 7, 2023 on winning strategies for the Powerball and
Mega Millions lottery.
- I am faculty advisor to the Society of Harvard Undergraduate
Magicians (SHAM).
We performed a magic show for the Harvard Club of Merrimac Valley on
February 25, 2023 which was videorecorded and
posted on youtube.
It's worth watching the whole video, but
the four tricks I performed can be found at times 13:35,
25:42, 1:01:02, and 1:18:38.
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The manuscript "Bayesian analysis
of longitudinal studies with treatment by indication"
by
Reagan Mozer and me
has been accepted for publication
in Health Services
and Outcomes Research Methodology.
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I presented
"Rating competitors in games with strength-dependent tie probabilities"
at the colloquium series of the
Department of Statistics, Operations and Data Science at Temple University
on November 4, 2022.
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After a 3-year gap, I have been appointed chair of the US Chess
ratings committee. I have served as a member continuously since 1985,
and had previously been chair 1992-2019.
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I was interviewed for and appeared in
Adam Whitaker's 90-minute documentary on chess ratings.
The movie
is available for viewing on YouTube.
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I have been funded by the science group at
Chessable
(click on the "View Our Active Scientific Research" banner)
to analyze chess rating data to understand whether the differential
performance among genders can be explained by different
participation rates.
Chessable wrote a blog post announcing the award.
The project will involve a fresh look at earlier work
carried out by me and
Christopher Chabris in our
2006 Psychological Science paper.
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I have been appointed the Chair of the American Statistical Association's
Committee on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
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I am the Director of Masters Program in Statistics
at Harvard University.
The program is open only for undergraduates wishing to
finish their studies with a concurrent masters degree,
as well as existing PhD students at Harvard.
- I am the editor for the "Recreations in Randomness" column
in the Harvard Data Science Review.
- I am the founding head of the
Sports Analytics Laboratory (SAL) in the Harvard Statistics Department.
See the
SAL web site
for more details.