STATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE
Florence Nightingale Day 2022 – 2023
The fifth annual Florence Nightingale Day (FND) was offered at several sites across the United States and Canada. A summary was published in the August AMStat News. Links to additional information are listed below.
At this time, the FN DAY 2022-2023 has passed. For FN DAY 2023-2024, we ask you to click here for the latest and up-to-date information.
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What?
A one-day free event to engage middle and high school students, promote future educational and career opportunities in statistics and data science, and celebrate Florence Nightingale and other women in these fields.
When
Saturday, October 29th, 2022, from 9:45 am – 2:45 pm ET (NY Time).
Who?
Pre-college students (ages 13 and above) from around the world are eligible to attend this one-day free event. Women and underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to participate.
Where?
The Ohio State University, Eighteenth Ave Building, Rooms 160 and 170 or via Zoom (link provided after registration).
Questions?
Please reach out to us through our contact page found on our site menu or clicking the button below.
Data Challenge
We are delighted to announce a hands-on data analysis activity in 2022! During this 90-minute activity, students will be given a dataset and asked to give voice to the reality behind the data. With supervision of the professional statisticians, students will tell the story of the data by using appropriate graphical and numerical methods. Happy number crunching!
You are eligible for the activity if you have attended at least one of the previous FN Day events or you have already taken an AP statistics course at school.
Our Invited Speakers for the Panel of Professional Women and Undergraduate & Graduate Students Panel
Allison Rajakumar
Director of Data Science and Analytics
The Lubrizol Corporation
Allison Rajakumar earned her Master of Applied Statistics degree from The Ohio State University in 2006 after obtaining a B.A. degree in Mathematics from Cleveland State University. She is currently the Director of the Data Science and Analytics team at Lubrizol, a specialty chemical company in Wickliffe, Ohio. In her role, Allison is responsible for delivering data science systems and services to improve efficiency and facilitate innovation. This includes statistical consulting and the creation of AI and data analytics systems. Allison has spent the past 16 years with Lubrizol. Her experience includes roles as a statistician and manager as well as an adjunct faculty member at Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio. Her professional experience includes expertise and leadership in data science, statistics, predictive modeling, design of experiments, and data analysis. Allison lives in Northeast Ohio with her husband and two sons. She enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, reading, and cross-stitching.
Amy Ruppert Stark
Director-Statistics Oncology
Eli Lilly and Company
Amy Ruppert Stark earned her Master of Applied Statistics degree from The Ohio State University in 2002 after obtaining her undergraduate degree from Miami University with a major in secondary education. For many years she worked with researchers to identify genetic markers associated with poor survival in patients diagnosed with leukemia to develop more effective treatments. After taking an interest in the design of clinical trials to test for the superiority of new treatments over standard of care, Amy went back to school and obtained her PhD in Biostatistics from The Ohio State University in 2017. Shortly thereafter, she joined Eli Lilly where she leads a group of statisticians and programmers in clinical trial conduct and analysis of clinical trial data. This work serves to bring safe and effective medicines to people around the world.
Katherine Thompson
Associate Professor of Statistics and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky
Katherine Thompson is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Dr. Bing Zhang Department of Statistics at the University of Kentucky. In 2013, she received her Ph.D. in Statistics from The Ohio State University. Before that, she received a double degree in math and biology from the University of Kentucky. Her research interests include developing relevant statistical methodology for analysis of biological or healthcare data and developing methods for phylogenetic analysis with applications in cardiovascular health
Jane Chiacchia
Masters of Applied Statistics Student
The Ohio State University
Jane Chiacchia is completing a Master’s in Applied Statistics at The Ohio State University. Her passion for statistics started in high school when she received stickers for doing well on statistics exams. Currently, she works as a graduate teaching assistant in the statistics department teaching recitations and lectures for undergraduate statistic courses. In the future she hopes to continue teaching at the university level or work as a project manager/financial analyst.
Wenxin Du
PhD student, Statistics
The Ohio State University
Wenxin Du is a third-year Ph.D. student in the statistics department at Ohio State University. Her current research interest focuses on developing new model diagnostic techniques for Bayesian modeling using Virtual Reality. She is also working on a project which attempts to understand Virtual Reality user behavior through experiments and statistical analysis. Wenxin is excited about incorporating novel technologies into her research interest in Statistics.
Alyssa Farmer
PhD student, Biostatistics
The Ohio State University
Alyssa is a fifth-year biostatistics PhD student at OSU. Her research interests are in causal inference, study generalizability, and survey methodology. She has been working as a graduate research associate at The Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center (GRC) for the past three years, where she works on applied research projects aimed at improving the health of Ohioans. Once she graduates, Alyssa is excited about growing her career as a biostatistician either at the GRC or in another public health-related job.
Madeline Peters
Data Analytics Major
The Ohio State University
Madeline Peters is a third-year student studying data analytics with a business specialization here at Ohio State. She found her love of statistics in high school after having great statistics teachers who showed her how fun and applicable statistics can be in the real world. This upcoming summer she will be an intern at Infoverity with the Data Governance and Analytics team.
Sayoni Roychowdhury
PhD Student, Statistics
The Ohio State University
Sayoni Roychowdhury is a second year PhD student in the statistics department at OSU. She has always loved how numbers can tell stories and got into statistics to know more about them. Her research interests are non parametric methods, network analysis and causal inference. She is looking forward to starting my research in the department
Sofia Zampino
Statistics Major
The Ohio State University
Sofia Zampino is a fourth-year undergraduate at The Ohio State University pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Statistics. She originally became interested in statistics during her work on her family show-pig farm and involvement with Ohio’s 4H Program. Over the years she noticed patterns as well as problems with growth, health, and market associated with pork production and realized that statistics could help with some of those problems. Currently, she is an intern in the Enterprise Analytics Office of Nationwide. Her career aspirations include the development of a female owned and operated analytics company to improve the data literacy of farmers. During her spare time she enjoys reading and hiking with her dog Yui.
Thank you to our wonderful sponsors! Their generous contributions have allowed for the continued existence of our organization.
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY®
DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
DEPARTMENT OF BIOSTATISTICS
DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS
COLLEGE OF NURSING
TRANSLATIONAL DATA ANALYTICS INSTITUTE
OSU NEWARK CAMPUS