The CAUSE Cartoon Caption Contest for July is now taking entries
The Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education is happy to announce our 26th Cartoon Caption Contest. Each month a cartoon, drawn by British cartoonist John Landers, is posted for you and your students to suggest statistical captions (cartoons are posted at the beginning of the month and submissions are due at the end of the month).
The next cartoon and the entry rules for the contest ending July 31 are at
[ https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/july/2018/submissions | https://www.causeweb.org/cause/caption-contest/july/2018/submissions ]
The best captions will be posted on CAUSEweb and the winner(s) will receive their choice of a coffee mug or a t-shirt imprinted with the cartoon.
Enjoy.
June Results: We had 14 submissions for the March caption contest that featured a cartoon showing a cornfield with one row of corn growing many times larger than the corn in the rest of the field – a farmer is talking to a statistician. The winning caption for the June contest was "Cornfield's conditions ruled out Simpson's paradox from a potential corn-founder," written by Larry Lesser from The University of Texas at El Paso. Larry’s caption can be a nice vehicle to discuss Cornfield’s simple conditions required of a potential confounder to create a Simpson’s Paradox situation. An honorable mention this month goes to Jim Alloway of EMSQ Associates for his caption “Once we replicate your results with a designed experiment, we’ll apply for the patent.”
Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption and congratulations to our winners!
Webinar: Tuesday, July 10 , 2018 2:00-3:00 PM EDT
Presented by : Nicholas J. Horton (Amherst College)
Title: Data Science for Undergraduates: Opportunities and Options
Please sign up to register, link to register : https://www.causeweb.org/cause/webinar/teaching/2018-07 [ https://www.causeweb.org/cause/webinar/teaching/2017-10 ]
Abstract: As our economy, society, and daily life become increasingly dependent on data, work across nearly all fields is becoming more data driven, affecting both the jobs that are available and the skills that are required. At the request of the National Science Foundation, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine were asked to set forth a vision for the emerging discipline of data science at the undergraduate level. The study committeem considered the core principles and skills undergraduates should learn and discussed the pedagogical issues that must be addressed to build effective data science education programs. The report underscores the importance of preparing undergraduates for a data-enabled world and recommends that academic institutions and other stakeholders take steps to meet the evolving data science needs of students. In this webinar, implications, opportunities, and challenges for statistics educators will be discussed along with the study findings. [ http://fivethirtyeight.com/ ]
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