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I was interviewed on November 19, 2021,
along with three colleagues who are outgoing members of the
American Statistical Association
Board of Directors,
on the monthly ASA podcast
Practical Significance.
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I appeared as a guest on the October 26, 2021 episode of
Ben Johnson's Perpetual Chess podcast discussing chess, ratings, and chess ratings.
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I was interviewed for a
USA Today article
published on October 5, 2021, on the Powerball jackpot lottery.
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I was
interviewed on WCVB channel 5
about the odds of winning the
Massachusetts VaxMillions Giveaway
on June 30, 2021.
An article in the Boston Globe on June 17, 2021 also quoted my views on the odds of winning.
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The ASA President’s Task Force Statement on Statistical Significance and Replicability,
co-authored by me and 14 others, has been published online in the
Annals of Applied Statistics.
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I have been appointed 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.
- Dick de Veaux
and I recently recorded and produced a
video song parody
of "Yesterday" by the Beatles as a tribute (eulogy?) to the
2020 Joint Statistical Meetings
taking place online due to the pandemic.
- The paper "Automated Harmonization of Bass Lines from Bach Chorales: A Hybrid Approach"
by my former student Gil Wassermann and me
has been published in the
Computer Music Journal.
- "Measuring
Effects of Medication Adherence on Time-Varying Health
Outcomes using Bayesian Dynamic Linear Models"
by Luis Campos, me, and Kristen Hunter has been accepted for
publication in Biostatistics.
- The paper
Bayesian analysis of longitudinal studies with treatment by
indication
by Reagan Mozer and me is now
posted on arXiv.org.
- I co-organized the
2019 New England Symposium
on Statistics in Sports, which took place on
September 28, 2019.
The conference received some early
press.
- 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 appointed a column editor (currently listed as
Associate Editor) for the Harvard Data Science Review (click on "Associate Editors A-L").
- 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.
- I am the founding head of our
Sports Analytics Laboratory.
The
web site
is now active.
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.
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