Senior Lecturer on Statistics Department of Statistics Harvard University Senior Statistician Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research

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• I was quoted in a New York Times piece on June 17, 2019, whether liberalizing marijuana usage laws can help address the opioid crisis.
  

• I am co-organizer of the 2019 New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports, which will take place on September 28, 2019.

• The manuscript (A) Data in the Life: Authorship Attribution of Lennon-McCartney Songs by Mark Glickman, Jason Brown, and Ryan Song has been published in the inaugural issue of the peer-reviewed journal, the Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR). The print version (which will be a bundling of the first two online HDSR issues) will be ready in October. The journal graciously funded the development of several interactive demos that will be embedded within the online version on the HDSR site. The online version contains sound samples to illustrate the relevant musical concepts on which our analyses rely. The published paper reflects an improved model over that which was reported earlier in the media, and all details are included in the article. Thank you for your patience in waiting to read our manuscript. We appreciate the early feedback on our manuscript, and thank many of you (especially David Hoaglin) for noticing several typos.
  
  Several outlets have written public-facing stories about our publication. Some notable examples are pieces in the Financial Times and the Daily Mail. Recent interviews about this work include one appearing on WDEL.com radio. More links to come soon, including to radio and podcast interviews.
  
  Last year, various articles appeared in the news media about our work. A 6-minute segment was recorded for the CBC show The Early Edition that appeared on August 1, 2018, and a 6.5-minute segment appeared on August 9, 2018, on WGBH radio in Boston. And if you are not sick of hearing my voice, there is also my interview on Science Friday on August 10, 2018, and the Stats+Stories podcast from October 18, 2018.

• I have been chosen to receive the 2019 US Chess Distinguished Serivce Award by US Chess.

• I will be presenting Data Tripper: Distinguishing Authorship of Beatles Songs Through Data Science at the 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings in Denver, CO, on July 28, 2019 at 6:00pm at the Colorado Convention Center, Four Seasons Ballroom 1. The lecture is open to the public.

• I will also be presenting The Jury is Out: Communicating Bayesian Statistics in a Courtroom Trial at the 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings in Denver, CO, on July 28, 2019 at 2:00pm. The talk is part of an invited session Advocating, Implementing and Explaining Bayesian Analyses in Statistical Consultations.

• I have been appointed a column editor (currently listed as Associate Editor) for the Harvard Data Science Review (click on "Associate Editors A-L").

• I was featured on a Stats + Stories "short story" about The Best Way to Rank Everyone. The segment went live on January 24, 2019.

• I have been elected to the American Statistical Association's Board of Directors for a 3-year term, starting 2019, as Council of Sections Governing Board representative.

• The paper A comparison of rating systems for competitive women's beach volleyball has been published in a special sports statistics issue of the Italian Journal of Applied Statistics.

• The Chapman & Hall/CRC book Handbook of Statistical Methods and Analyses in Sports, edited by me, Jim Albert, Tim Swartz and Ruud Koning, has now been published. I wrote a chapter on Estimating Team Strength in the NFL with Hal Stern.

• I am one of the developers of the new Universal Rating System for chess. The project was sponsored by Grand Chess Tour, the Kasparov Chess Foundation, and the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.

• I am the founding head of our Sports Analytics Laboratory. The web site is now active.

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