• White House Announces Big Data R&D Initiative (29 Mar 2012): see Big Data Page
• Articles in Statistics & Science Media
• Duke Saga: Omics in Clinical Trials
• Careers in Statistics

Articles in Statistics & Science Media

• Data Crunchers Now the Cool Kids on Campus (WI St J, Mar 2013)
• Building the Statistical Work Force: Increasing the Pipeline of U.S. Students (Amstat News, Feb 2013)
• What Separates a Good Data Scientist from a Great One (HBR, Jan 2013)
  
• Data Scientist: The sexiest job of the 21st century (Harvard Bus Rev, Oct 2012
• Seeing the future: computers getting it mostly right: Hurricane and presidential election show new power of forecasting (CBC News, Nov 2012)
• RNA studies under fire: High-profile results challenged over statistical analysis of sequence data (Nature, Apr 2012)
• What Are the Odds That Statistics Would Be This Popular? (NY Times, 26 Jan 2012)

• Charge to StatsNSF Subcommittee of Division of Mathematical Science
• NSF Report on Name of DMS
• The International Year of Statistics (Statistics2013)
• Improving Human Welfare in 2013 International Year of Statistics (YouTube)
• Statisticians and Clinicians: Collaborations Based on Mutual Respect, DA Berry (Amstat News, Feb 2012)
• Statistical Leadership: Preparing Our Future Leaders (Amstat News, Feb 2012)
• Undergraduate Programs and the Future of Academic Statistics, DS Moore, ASA President
• Good News or Bad News? Academic jobs for statisticians and biostatisticians, by Keith Crank, ASA Research and Graduate Education Manager (Amstat News, March 2011
• Computing in the Statistics Curricula, by Deborah Nolan and Duncan Temple Lang (The Amer Statist 64: 97-107, 2010)
• What is Statistics? by Emery N. Brown and Robert E. Kass (The Amer Statist 63: 105-110, 2009)
• Why We Need Data on Our Profession (Amstat News, 1 Aug 2009)
• Workshop Integrating Computing into the Statistics Curricula (July 2008, UC Berkeley)
• TL Moore's ASA Reports on Statistics in Liberal Arts Colleges (2003-4)
• ASA: The Case for Undergraduate Statistics, by Richard L. Scheaffer and Carl Lee (2000)
• Promoting the Practice and Profession of Statistics on YouTube

Duke Saga: Omics in Clinical Trials

• The Duke Saga (academic misconduct uncovered by statisticians)
• Review of Omics-Based Tests for Predicting Patient Outcomes in Clinical Trials (IOM, 23 Mar 2012)
• Deception at Duke. CBS 60 Minutes (12 Feb 2012)
• An array of errors. The Economist (10 Sep 2011)
• How bright promise in cancer testing fell apart. NY Times (8 July 2011)
• Reproducible Research. Amstat Online (1 Jan 2011)
• As Questions Grow, Duke Halts Trials, Launches Investigation. Science (6 Aug 2010)
• Data handling errors spur debate over clinical trial. Nature Medicine 16: 618 (2010)
• Deriving chemosensitivity from cell lines: Forensic bioinformatics and reproducible research in high-throughput biology, by Baggerly & Coombes (Annals of Applied Statistics 3: 1309-1334 (2009)

Careers in Statistics

• American Statistical Association Career Center
• Careers in Big Data
• Interview with Nick Chamandy, statistician at Google (Simply Statistics, 15 Feb 2013)
• Want a job? Do the math (Eve Tahmincioglu, MSNBC, 18 Nov 2012)
• The Popularity of Statistics (NY Times, 30 Jan 2012)
• Advertising Companies Fret over a Digital Talent Gap (NY Times, 1 Nov 2011)
• For Today's Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics (NY Times, 5 Aug 2009
• 5 College Majors That Can Help You Get a Job (Smart Money, 25 Aug 2009)
• Best and Worst Jobs 2010 (Wall St J, 5 Jan 2010)
• Statistics: Dream Job of the Next Decade, by Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google (video)
• Top 300 Colleges and Universities Ranked by Internet 'Brand Equity'
• Career Cast: Jobs Rated 2011: Ranking 200 Jobs From Best to Worst