Violet Cane: A breaker of codes and moulds
She ditched her PhD to help defeat the Nazis, and is remembered as a kind teacher and funny friend. Here,Rob Gandy,Altea Lorenzo-Arribas andRichard Startup celebrate the life and work of pioneering British statistician Professor Violet Cane (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Rob Gandy,
Altea Lorenzo ‐Arribas,
Richard Startup Tags: Profile Source Type: research
Statistician, missionary, mother
Marriage was often career-ending for female statisticians before the 1960s. So what happened to them next? Here,Ursula Winifred Taylor andJohn Aldrich reflect on the extraordinary life and work of Winifred Mackenzie (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Ursula Winifred Taylor,
John Aldrich Tags: Profile Source Type: research
“They are not alone”: Mentoring women graduate students
Women and other historically marginalised groups can feel out of place on advanced degree programmes – mentoring can help. Here,Emily Griffith andJulia Sharp– both winners of the Outstanding Mentor Award from the ASA's Statistical Consulting section – show how (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Emily Griffith,
Julia Sharp Tags: Features Source Type: research
“We are still not done; we need to keep this organisation alive”
Japanese biostatistician Motomi “Tomi” Mori is chair of the organising committee of the inaugural International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science on 11 October 2022, and served as the President of the Caucus for Women in Statistics last year. She speaks candidly toAltea Lorenzo-Arribas about her work and the challenges she has faced (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Altea Lorenzo ‐Arribas Tags: Profile Source Type: research
Bot out of hell
Last International Women's Day, the Twitter Gender Pay Gap Bot mined government data to sensationally unmask hypocritical employers. Its co-creator Francesca Lawson tellsAltea Lorenzo-Arribas andSandra Alba how it happened, and why data is nothing without visibility (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Altea Lorenzo ‐Arribas,
Sandra Alba Tags: Statscomm Source Type: research
Questions answered: Michelle McGhee
The Pudding is a US-based website devoted to next-level data visualisations on those quirky little issues that deserve, but rarely get, a closer inspection. Meet one of its journalist-engineers. (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
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Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
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Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Contents Source Type: research
Editorial
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Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Altea Lorenzo ‐Arribas,
Sandra Alba Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
News
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Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
Letters
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Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
Gender equity in digital health: AI as a double ‐edged sword
Alyssa Columbus describes flaws in statistical methods used by digital health platforms, how these shortcomings could contribute to gender health disparities, and what can be done to minimise inequities (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Alyssa Columbus Tags: Features Source Type: research
Bayesian networks versus gender bias
Gender-sensitive statistics can highlight gender gaps, but current measurement tools have serious limitations Here,Fulvia Mecatti,Paola Vicard,Flaminia Musella andLorenzo Giammei explore how Bayesian networks could help improve the measurement, monitoring and prediction of gender equality (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Fulvia Mecatti,
Paola Vicard,
Flaminia Musella,
Lorenzo Giammei Tags: Features Source Type: research
A place where women thrived UK Social Survey Official Statistics
Women had a strong presence in the workforce of UK Social Survey Official Statistics from its inception.Joy Dobbs was part of a cohort of women recruited in the 1970s and 1980s as government survey statistics expanded. This cohort joined and enhanced an environment and culture that nurtured and developed female talent, including two women who became National Statistician (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Joy Dobbs Tags: Features Source Type: research
The female of the species Baboon mothers and a courageous career move
Lucy Cooke celebrates the “fiercely analytical mind” of Jeanne Altmann, whose statistical work in the 1960s rescued animal mothers from evolutionary obscurity (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - September 26, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Lucy Cooke Tags: Features Source Type: research
