Independent Media Agencies: July 2018

Thursday, 19 July 2018

New RSS partnership to connect fellows with trustee opportunities

As part of our Statisticians for Society initiative, the RSS has partnered with Reach Volunteering to connect RSS fellows with the latest trustee opportunities in the UK.

Trustees are the people who lead a charity to ensure it achieves the aims it was set up to do. They are responsible for ensuring the charity complies with the law and puts the needs of the people it supports first. Trustees use their skills and experience to support the charity, helping them make well informed decisions.

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RSS forms new special interest group for data ethics

The Royal Statistical Society has formed a Data Ethics Special Interest Group to address emerging topics in the burgeoning data ethics landscape.

The group’s formation reflects the growing recognition that in an era of big data, sound ethical practices will need to be considered and developed to ensure good data stewardship in future.

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RSS takes its statistics courses to Leeds, Cardiff and Manchester

The RSS is taking some of its most popular courses out of London and is now offering a range of foundation and professional data-related courses in Cardiff, Leeds and Manchester in September 2018.

Our popular foundation course, Understanding and analysing data is being run at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Leeds on 13-14 September. Coached by Ellen Marshall, the statistics co-ordinator in the Maths and Statistics Help centre (MASH) at Sheffield University, the purpose of this course is to help participants understand some basic statistical concepts such as hypothesis testing and confidence interval estimation as well as how to develop a strategy for simple data analysis. Ellen is the winner of an internal student union award for Innovation in Academic skills development & Sigma Outstanding Contributor award in the field of Maths and Statistics Support.

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Tuesday, 17 July 2018

GLA adopts statistics code of practice

The RSS is delighted to hear that the Greater London Authority (GLA) is voluntarily adopting the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice in order to ensure the quality, trustworthiness and value of their local data and statistical outputs. It will be the first UK city administration to adopt the new Code.

The GLA produces and publishes a great many statistics through its award-winning data platform, the London Datastore. The open data helps the GLA understand the performance of key public services such as the police, transport and fire and rescue. They are also used by the London Assembly to stimulate democratic debate and hold the Mayor to account.

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Friday, 13 July 2018

RSS opens call for nominations for Statistic of the Year

We’re very pleased to be launching the second ‘Statistic of the Year’ for 2018 to find out which statistic best captures 2018 so far.

Last year’s winning and highly commended statistics were on topics such as causes of death (from terrorist attacks compared to lawnmower fatalities) in the USA, declining teenage pregnancy rates, the amount of ‘concrete jungle’ in the UK and the number of active phone connections worldwide.

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Stats excellence in journalism awards 2018: winners announced

The annual prize ceremony for the RSS statistical excellence in journalism awards was established in 2007 to celebrate journalists who use statistics to question, analyse and investigate the issues that affect society. This year, thanks to sponsorship from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the awards comprised four categories: Explaining the facts, Data visualisation, Investigative journalism and Regional journalism.

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Wednesday, 11 July 2018

2018 Mardia Prize to support extreme weather research

We’d like to congratulate the winners of the second Mardia interdisciplinary workshop prize, which have just been announced.

Founded by RSS fellow Kanti Mardia, the prize was created to encourage cutting-edge interdisciplinary work by bringing together statistics with other science communities through workshops in emerging interdisciplinary areas. Funding of £3,000–£4,000 per year will be made available to support workshops that bring statisticians together with other scientific communities and to maintain a sustained focus.