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University tell me Facebook is growing are receiving greater prominence at the I have seen an example of a statistics
as a tool to reach potential students). meeting and are left up for a longer unit within an organization that was so
Wikis, webinars, and other Internet- time to encourage perusal by interested highly valued by its clientele that, even
based services seem to be growing in people throughout the day. Last year, in the face of cuts to their own budgets,
popularity, too. This begs the question: SPES aided in this effort by initiating its clients urged management not to
How can SPES make use of Web 2.0? its first Outstanding Poster Presentation touch statistics. And data generated by
Drop me a line. I’d like to hear your Award. This year, we will up the ante every new technology is a puzzle to be
thoughts, as addressing this issue will and offer an additional student poster played with and understood by the dis-
be one of my goals in the coming year award. So, if you and/or your students cipline. In this light, if you haven’t read
as SPES chair. are planning to go to JSM and want to the lead article in the May 2008 issue of
As chair-elect this past year, I had give a presentation, consider a poster Technometrics, “The Future of Industrial
the pleasure of working with incoming instead of a paper. Statistics: A Panel Discussion,” I highly
Q&P chair Martha Gardner to arrange recommend it to you. The discussion
and collect door prizes for the mixer
Challenges and
features some of our most respected
at JSM. Those of you who have been Opportunities leaders in the profession. The strength
to mixers in the past know the excite-
I’ll close by noting that it’s an interesting
of agreement they share on some top-
ment that university-branded boxer
time to be an industrial statistician. As a
ics juxtaposed with the diversity of
shorts, inflatable alien dolls, and stuffed
discipline, we face challenges and pres-
opinions on others is food for thought,
Pillsbury Doughboys can generate
sures as we always do: threats of downsiz-
regardless of whether you are in indus-
among otherwise normal people. This
ing, under-appreciation by management,
try, academia, or government.
year was no exception, as many donors
and the need to adapt to changes that
I welcome and encourage your
contributed very nice (and some very
emerging technologies impose on our
involvement as we strengthen and
strange) door prizes: Bank of America,
traditional methodological strengths. We
position SPES to take on the chal-
Boeing, Cambridge University Press,
also face tremendous new opportunities,
lenges that lie ahead. I look forward to
Elsevier Press, GE, Lubrizol, Minitab,
many of which are fundamentally the
meeting and working with you in the
Procter & Gamble, Pearson/Addison-
same as our challenges.
coming year. n
Wesley, Salford Systems, SAS, Simon
Fraser University, StatGraphics,
University of Dayton, University of
Iowa, and Virginia Tech. Hearty thanks
go out to these organizations and their
representatives for the generous prize
offers (and please let me know if I’ve Statistical Consulting
missed thanking any of you). Sadly, Fred
Hulting couldn’t make it to the mixer,
so we were without a Doughboy for the
Call for Contributed Papers
first time in as long as I can remember.
I tried to make up for the loss by offer-
for JsM 2009
ing a CD of great bagpipe tunes—no,
that’s not an oxymoron—played by the
Cynthia R. Long, statistical Consulting Publications Officer
2008 World Champion Simon Fraser
University Pipe Band. I wasn’t sure how
to read the expression on the face of the
winner; it was one I hadn’t seen before.
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his year’s Joint Statistical Meetings will take place August 1–6 in
Washington, DC. The Statistical Consulting Section will again be spon-
soring several invited and topic-contributed sessions. These are already
set, but there is still time to submit a contributed paper for either a paper or
JSM 2009
poster presentation—the submission deadline is not until February 2.
We encourage papers on all topics related to statistical consulting. This is a
It’s not too early to start thinking about
great opportunity for you to present and discuss topics such as experiences in
JSM 2009, to be held August 1–6 in
your consulting setting, innovative methods for training statistical consultants,
Washington, DC. The ASA has been
balancing consulting with other job responsibilities, or effective communica-
listening to complaints regarding the
tion strategies. And many of you may have consulting experiences that fit this
size of the meeting in terms of the
year’s JSM theme: “Statistics: From Evidence to Policy.”
huge number of simultaneous sessions
You can submit an abstract by going to www.amstat.org/meetings/2009/jsm.
and has been working hard to change
Go under “Program” and then “Abstract Submission.” We hope you will con-
the “meeting culture” in statistics by
sider participating in this year’s JSM program. n
encouraging more poster presentations
and fewer paper presentations. Posters
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