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News
- Institute will focus on business startups, training and personal privacy says Berners-Lee
- Twitter powers NCRM’s most popular paper
- School of data ‘sprint’ announced
- Bird calls for better data on rogue attacks in Afghanistan
- Risk register veto marks new dimension to freedom of information: ICO
- School of data seeks recruit to create Data Wrangling 101 course
- New Fellows – March 2012
- New law obliges publishing of public data in open formats
Sections
- Authority and ONS respond on inflation measurement concerns
- UK Statistics Authority criticises manner of release of statistics that are “highly vulnerable to misinterpretation”
- Design, analysis and reporting of BMJ scientific misconduct survey was lacking – Sheila Bird
- Kate Barker joins calls for swift, open review of CPI
- Business Recorder urges Pakistan government to follow UK official statistics model
- MPs endorse appointment of Andrew Dilnot as next Statistics Authority chair
- Significance – Competitions? You want ‘em, we got ‘em!
- Volunteers sought to help influence media reporting of medical research
Job Seekers
RSS NEWS
- New Fellows – March 2012
- Royal Statistical Society Council and committees 2012
- Examinations report 2011
- Statistics in sport
- Census at School USA
- RSS prepares for the Olympics
- RSSeNEWS moves on: developing the Society’s online communications service
- Well-being graphs – RSS NEWS reader letter
Society
- Bird calls for better data on rogue attacks in Afghanistan
- Members – you – are the ‘eyes and ears’ of the RSS campaign to improve statistical literacy
- Search on for four theme directors
- Memorial service for Stella Cunliffe – 2 April 2012
- 2012 Beveridge Lecturer announced
- Sheila Bird elected Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Authority and ONS respond on inflation measurement concerns
- Call for submissions for RSS 2012 Conference
RSS in the media
- Awards ceremony highlights statistical excellence and dissemination
- Hand highlights getstats value in helping public evaluate spending review data
- Leyland asserts value of official statistics
- Honour for editor of RSS NEWS
- Policy priorities of UK Statistics Authority set out in letters to the major UK political parties
Statistics / Data users
Employers
- Rates for advertising
- Employer’s legal obligations
- Recruitment interviews
- Fair and unfair dismissal
- Parental leave and childcare for employers
Publications
- Significance article explains how Usain Bolt can run faster
- Articles in Journals of the Royal Statistical Society
- Most read JRSS articles on Wiley.com
- RSS Journals top cited papers 2011
Analysis and comment
Policy
- Statement calls for end to delayed death registrations in England and Wales
- New report sets out need for better statistics in schools and colleges
- Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education seeks two new members
- Society urges people to fill out Census
- RSS seeks theme directors
- Measuring national well-being: is happiness the answer?
- RSS calls for comprehensive review of inflation measures
- 2010 Business plan will monitor project and financial planning
Education
- Developing and testing survey questions, 15 November 2012
- Education, statistics and the big data future
- HEA STEM’s conference includes students’ competition
- New series of RSS/EPSRC graduate training courses launched
- New report sets out need for better statistics in schools and colleges
- Professional Development Centre course programme 2012
- Appointment of new ACME chair welcomed
- Humanities, Social Sciences and the new Funding Framework
Career
- Developing and testing survey questions, 15 November 2012
- Introduction to modelling in R – 3 & 4 October 2012
- Presenting Data – 19 April and 11 October 2012
- Rates for advertising
- Diary of a jobseeker
- Interview advice
- How to write a CV
- Make the most out of your complex datasets
News of fellows
- Bird calls for better data on rogue attacks in Afghanistan
- Sheila Bird elected Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Design, analysis and reporting of BMJ scientific misconduct survey was lacking – Sheila Bird
- Spiegelhalter cites media’s role in dominance of emotions over statistics about travel risks
- Memorial service for Roger Gray
- “Risk communication in a crisis is vital” says David Spiegelhalter in wake of Fukushima
- Verrall appointed to pro vice chancellor at City University
- Why did May not act upon NPIA research findings, asks Bird
