Statistics in the News

• Sizing Up Bid Data, Broadening Beoynd the Internet (NYT)
• EO Wilson says Biologists Don't Need to Know Math. Others disagree:
  • E. O. Wilson vs. math
  • EO Wilson is Wrong Again
  • Don't Listen to EO Wilson
• Growing Numbers of Stats Degrees
• Statistics is Berkeley's fastest growing major
• Butler has secret weapon in statistical guru (SI)
• The Upbeat Stats on Statistics (WSJ) (One of our PhD graduates, Brian Caffo, Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is interviewed in this article)
• Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus (WSJ) ("Also, some departments don't have the budget to add faculty or classes. And departments with the funds to grow can find it difficult to attract qualified candidates. `Finding Ph.D.s in statistics who are willing to devote themselves to teaching is getting harder and harder,' Prof. De Veaux said. `Everybody wants them.'")
• Data Science is Hot (NYT)
• Statistics Jobs Driving Expansion of University Statistics Departments
• What are the odds that statistics would get this popular? (NYT)
• The Age of Big Data (NYT)
• How Companies Learn Your Secrets (NYT) ("It's like an arms race to hire statisticians nowadays," said Andreas Weigend, the former chief scientist at Amazon.com.)
• For Today s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics (NYT) ("I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians," said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google. "And I m not kidding.")
• Just the Facts. Yes, All of Them. (NYT)
• Why Statistics?
• The Cybercrime Wave that Wasn't (NYT)
• How Big Data Became So Big (NYT)
• Meta Analyses of Organic Food's Value Disagree (NYT)
• Want a top job? Do the math. (MSNBC)
• Need more reasons not to trust voluntary response polls? (or from the source)
• Did an Excel error bring down the London Whale?(also here and here)