📢 Bin Yu and I signed a book contract with The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social this week! We're very excited for "Veridical Data Science: The Practice of Responsible Data Analysis and Decision Making" to be released (together with a free online version) in 2021 🎉

Excited to share a new paper, "Pre-registration for Predictive Modeling" Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2311.18807 Blog post: statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/12/06/exp… Template: github.com/ml-preregister… Joint w/ Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Amit Sharma, Duncan Watts, and Jessica Hullman

Distinguished Professor Bin Yu and alum Rebecca Barter published an online book titled "Veridical Data Science: The Practice of Responsible Data Analysis and Decision Making." statistics.berkeley.edu/about/news/yu-… #BerkeleyStats

really thankful about the publicity for this. May all University managers take note. May colleagues in health and medicine have this sort of integrity.

Vale Daniel Dennett — also one of the best public articulators of the philosophy of science.

Statistics for Mathematicians by Victor M. Panaretos

If your research sits at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Inequality, and Society, join us UC Berkeley CDSS Berkeley Statistics UC Berkeley EECS UC Berkeley I School Online UC Berkeley Law UC Berkeley Sociology. We have a 5-position cluster hire open! Apply by 9/16 at: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04498

University of Limerick is recruiting a Post Doctoral Researcher in Statistics to work as part of an inter-disciplinary team leading the development of time-to-event models, using the Bayesian framework, with some knowledge of R package development for model deployment.

Registration is open for SLDS 2024! The 2024 Conference on Statistical Learning and Data Science will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Newport Beach, California, from November 5-8, 2024.  sites.google.com/view/slds2024/… Register by 9/30 for discounted hotel rates.

Includes commentary from yours truly. But the bit before that should be enlightening at least.

I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location

Just listened to the first episode of normalcurves.com and what a treat! Kristin Sainani and Regina Nuzzo are two of my favorite stats popularizers ever and they get to be exactly as smart, funny, and deliciously cynical as they should be. But they do need to be on bsky

Founders who were PhD or post-doc in my lab at Berkeley, **largely funded by NSF / DoD grants**, start-up, market cap (collected by OpenAI Deep Research)

Dr. Edward Gunning is at ENAR 2025, New Orleans, presenting Mixed Effects Models for Complex Functional Object Data Using Latent Machine-Learning Embeddings. He has a new book available Functional Data Analysis in Biomechanics. Stop by Springer booth, and browse his book

Exciting news in the global statistics community! Grace Wahba was awarded the prestigious 2025 International Prize in Statistics for her groundbreaking work on smoothing splines, which revolutionized data analysis and machine learning. https://www. statprize.org/index.cfm

Applications for the 25th New Researchers Conference (NRC) are open. NRC 2025 Jul 31 - Aug 2 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Just before the JSM nrc2025.github.io Deadline: May 15

Next @SLSS_ASA webinar is July 1, 2-3:30 EDT. GilesH will discuss inference for ensemble models. Register at eventbrite.com/e/trees-and-vs…