Former RSS president appointed director of Alan Turing Institute

The Alan Turing Institute has appointed former RSS president Professor Sir Adrian Smith as its director.

Professor Smith said he was delighted to lead the institute in its next phase of development. ‘The Alan Turing Institute has a unique role to play in ensuring that the UK fully exploits the potential of advances in data science and AI to transform business and social systems for the benefit of society,’ he said in a statement.

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RSS announces recipients of 2018 honours

We can now announce who has received Royal Statistical Honours this year.

The 2018 recipients, are as follows:

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2018 Campion Award for Excellence in Official Statistics

We are now accepting entries for the 2018 Campion Award for Excellence in Official Statistics. The award has been renamed this year in honour of our former president, the late Sir Harry Campion, who left a generous legacy to the Society. Campion was also the first director in 1941 of what was then the UK Central Statistical Office.

The award, given in partnership with the UK Statistics Authority, is for anyone working in UK government statistics and rewards good practice, focusing on statistics for the public good. We are pleased to announce that Civil Service World are the media partner for this year’s award.

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John Curtice and John Pullinger confirmed as RSS 2018 speakers

We are delighted to announce that the first two keynote speakers for this year's Royal Statistical Society’s 2018 International Conference will be Sir John Curtice (pictured) and John Pullinger.

The conference will open on the evening of Monday 3 September at Cardiff City Hall with a keynote talk by UK National Statistician and former RSS President John Pullinger. This opening address will be followed by the welcome reception at the National Museum of Wales.

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Submissions open for talks and posters at RSS 2018 Conference

After a record-breaking year in 2017, this year’s RSS International Conference heads to Cardiff where it will run from 3 to 6 September.

Submissions are now open for contributed talks, rapid-fire talks and poster presentations. The deadline for abstracts for talks is 5 April. Submissions can be on any topic related to statistics, data science and the use of data. So if you’re involved in projects, research or new developments and want to share your work, we want to hear from you.

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David Spiegelhalter brings Bayes and Fisher to BBC iPlayer

RSS president David Spiegelhalter is interviewed by Brian Cox in a short BBC programme on two towering figures of statistics, Thomas Bayes and Ronald Fisher. The programme is part of a six-part BBC series, People of Science, which is available on the BBC iPlayer from today (11 January 2017).

In his programme, David talks about why he chose Bayes and Fisher as his ‘people of science’ and shows how Bayesian ideas are everywhere in the modern world, from email spam filters to machine learning algorithms. He also talks about the importance of Fisher’s P-values in scientific research - then demonstrates, using a billiards table, the difference between the two statisticians’ approaches to inference. 

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RSS launches Statistical Excellence in Journalism 2018 awards

The RSS has just launched its 2018 ‘Statistical Excellence in Journalism’ awards, which commends reporters for their use of statistics and numbers in bringing the day’s news stories to life.

Now in their 12th year, ago, the awards have honoured numerous stats-savvy journalists, such as the BBC Reality Check team, Cathy Newman of Channel 4 News, Daniel Finkelstein of The Times, Mona Chalabi of the Guardian US, Martin Beckford of The Mail on Sunday and Alberto Nardelli of BuzzFeed.

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