We are so sad to hear of the passing of Frank Duckworth MBE, co-inventor of the Duckworth-Lewis method for cricket and a much loved RSS fellow. Editor of RSS News for 20 years and recipient of our Chambers Medal, he will be greatly missed. rss.org.uk/news-publicati…

Great Address by @AndrewDGarrett including a historical overview of past presidents & an optimistic vision for the future "It is hard to imagine a more exciting time for the Society than to be part of a world awash with data – even if a few battles with the devil lie ahead."

#OTD 2008 Violet R Cane d (b 31 Jan 1916) 🇬🇧 Elected fellow RSS Royal Statistical Society 1947; ISI @IntStat 1969. Best known for work on sensory perception, Markov chains applied to behavioural sequence data, diffusion & stochastic models. Lecturer in the Cambridge Statistical Laboratory /4

2/ 1st F Professor of Mathematical Statistics U Manchester 1961. During WWII she was a Bletchley Park codebreaker. In 1952 she discussed with Alan Turing the “possibility of constructing, at least theoretically, a machine whose operation resembles that of a human brain”

3/Refs Cane VR. J Royal Stat Soc B 1959, 21(1), 36–49 Cane VR & Armitage P Nature 1957, 1404–1405 Gandy R, Lorenzo-Arribas A, Startup R. Significance 2022 doi.org/10.1111/1740-9… Lorenzo-Arribas A. J Royal Stat Soc A, 2022, 185 (4), 2278–2281. doi.org/10.1111/rssa.1…

You still have time to register for our online talk "The Flawed Genius of William Playfair" by David Bellhouse (Western University, Canada) 📅Monday 08 July 2024 ⏰3.00PM - 4.00PM Further info and booking: rss.org.uk/training-event…

Great session co-organised with RSS History Section Royal Statistical Society #RSS2024Conf #WomenInStats

Wishing a happy International Day of Older Persons to all our older readers and contributors. Look out for our special issue on old age in January 2025, in which we'll focus on statistical work in this area and statisticians aged 80+. #IDOP2024

#OTD 1912 Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw b (d 10 Aug 2014) 🇬🇧DBE 1971, 1st F President Manchester Statistical Society 1981-3 (& member for 70 years, 1944-2014); IMA President 1978-1979. Best known as a mathematician, she used statistics to influence government policy 1/4

Ready for #glasgowAIethics on #AdaLovelaceDay and fittingly, our paper on lessons from the history of statistics for a more inclusive, open AI is just published Significance doi.org/10.1093/jrssig…

We're hosting a session with RSS Celebrating Diversity tomorrow Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science #IDWSDS2024! 🎙Penny Reynolds ASA History of Statistics Special Interest Group FLORIDA & Altea Lorenzo BioSS 🌟The Stories Behind the History of Women in Statistics🌟 📅 October 8th ⏰19:30 - 20:00 UTC (20:30-21:00 UK time). idwsds.org/registration/

John Nelder FRS was born 100 years ago today. President of the Royal Statistical Society 1985-6. A conversation with Stephen John Senn is here tinyurl.com/2zfdjce9 his important paper with RWM Wedderburn: tinyurl.com/3xkedja6 My copy of McCullagh & Nelder's GLM text:

Penny Reynolds ASA History of Statistics Special Interest Group starts #S51 🌟The Stories Behind the History of Women in Statistics 🌟 #IDWSDS2024 #WomenInStats #HistoryOfStats This session is jointly organised by RSS Celebrating Diversity & RSS History Section

Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science ASA History of Statistics Special Interest Group RSS History Section We had a great time, thanks so much Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science for organising a fantastic event and many thanks to our presenters Penny Reynolds ASA History of Statistics Special Interest Group & Altea Lorenzo, as well as our supportive audience (more photos below, with thanks to colleague Edith Milanzi, PhD!) x.com/ebmilanzi/stat…

100 years ago today Maurice Quenouille 🇬🇧b 1924 (d 12 Dec 1973) Fellow Royal Statistical Society 1945, IMS 1952, ISI 1964. Best known for jackknife resampling 1956 (John Tukey gave it the cool name in 1958). 1/5

Siegfried Wagner @StA_Maths_Stats RSS History Section Joseph Lam Exactly! Among many important papers that Box wrote/co-authored my favourite is An analysis of transformations, with David Cox in JRSS-B, 1964. A very profound paper leading to eg the LMS method for growth standards... rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.…

We thoroughly enjoyed #IDWSDS2024, many thanks Caucus for Women in Statistics and Data Science for the great organisation!✨ Read about our joint session with RSS History Section & other Royal Statistical Society contributions: rss.org.uk/news-publicati…

@StA_Maths_Stats Young Professor of the Day -Augustus De Morgan was appointed the first Professor of Mathematics at UCL in 1828, aged 21. He wrote (though never published nor completed it) a volume on "The Elements of Statistics" in 1827 - see archives.ucl.ac.uk/CalmView/Recor… RSS History Section ASA History of Statistics Special Interest Group

Very proud to mark the immense contributions to the field of these great minds despite the many hurdles they faced #BlackHistoryMonth2024 #BlackHistoryMonthUK #BlackHistoryMonth Thanks RSS History Section ASA History of Statistics Special Interest Group for their help!

You can join our AGM today, 11:50-12:00. Information and booking: rss.org.uk/training-event…