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Team of IAA Students Among Finalists at 2018 ASA Duke DataFest

Posted on April 19, 2018 by Columnist

The IAA team of Daniel Li, Veer Gupta, Idrees Hussain, Emily Hadley, and Matias Avila were among the 9 finalist teams in a field of over 80 teams at the 2018 Duke DataFest. We were commended for our presentation skills and analysis. The 2018 ASA Duke Datafest (https://www2.stat.duke.edu/datafest/) began on Continue reading Team of IAA Students Among Finalists at 2018 ASA Duke DataFest→

Alumni Interview: Arri Landsman Roos

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Columnist

“I knew there were techniques that were suited to the problems that I wanted to solve, so I chose to seek out a place where I could learn those techniques.” Arri Landsman-Roos is a 2013 graduate of the Institute for Advanced Analytics. Currently, he is the Vice President of Decision Continue reading Alumni Interview: Arri Landsman Roos→

Trivia Triumphs

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Columnist

When you spend a majority of your time around the same 111 people, you’re bound to find things that you have in common beyond an interest in analytics. For me, my priority is finding others who love the NBC television series The Office as much as I do and people who Continue reading Trivia Triumphs→

Datalines: An Interview with Maia Majumder

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Columnist

“Novel data streams allow us to see what’s happening in areas where traditional disease surveillance is weak. As internet penetration around the world improves, we are getting better signal in more places.” Maia Majumder is a computational epidemiology research fellow at HealthMap and a PhD candidate at MIT. In our Continue reading Datalines: An Interview with Maia Majumder→