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Editor's Note: It's cold outside, but the ASA is on FIRE with tons of activity in the next 8 weeks. Don't hibernate - get active!  The CCASA wishes you a powerful start to the New Year!
Noon to 1:30PM TUESDAY, January 26, 2009 The East Bank Club, 500 N. Kingsbury, Chicago 60610
Please join us for another exciting talk in the CCASA's
2009-2010 Luncheon program!
Our January speaker is Lisa Amoroso, Ph.D.,
Kellogg/Northwestern University. The 2010 edition of
the popular text, Constructing Social Research 2/e
(Ragin and Amoroso, Pine Forge Press), emphasizes
the various ethical dilemmas faced by social
scientists during the research process. Lisa's
talk, "Ethics in an Infoglut World," will consider how
ethical dilemmas can be complicated by the ease of
obtaining and analyzing massive amounts of data on
all aspects of individuals' lives (including behaviors,
personalities, physical and mental wellbeing,
opinions, values, and on and on). Commercial
enterprises, interested in harnessing this information
to develop better products or services and higher
profits, need to deal with privacy issues (or to factor in
the costs of litigation) but they do not give much
consideration to the ethical issues involved with
research on human subjects - consideration that
professional ethics standards require of social
scientists.
Plans for our future luncheons will be
included in our upcoming announcements and in the
Parameter. Register online at https://www.123 signup.com/servlet/SignUpMember? PG=1531573182300&P=153157300. Mark Your Calendars! The February luncheon will be held on February 23rd, and the speaker will be Kwang-Youn Kim. Kwang-Youn will present a talk on Variations in the Genome. Plan to join your CCASA friends in February! Questions: Contact Borko Jovanovic, CCASA VP Luncheons, Phone: 312-503-2008 or E-mail: borko@northwestern.edu
The Statistics Career
Fair
Need a little career advice or resume boost? Don't
miss our Career Fair. No appointment necessary - the
walk-in format invites you to come as early or late as
your schedule permits. Meet with representatives from
sponsoring corporations to discuss how
statisticians fit into their organizations and review
your resume. Career specialists will also
host "break out tables" to consult with small groups or
individuals on: -How to put together a resume
The Social Media Conference: The use of social media in our society is becoming more and more ubiquitous and provides opportunities to leverage the content and conversations present to drive research, inform decision-making, and evaluate outcomes. Our conference presenters provide multiple examples of the usefulness of social media in a variety of fields.
Conference Program
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Buffet Lunch
Costs
Career Fair Only:
For directions and to register online, go to
http://chicagoasa.org/Workshops/e020510.htm
CCASA is proud to sponsor this exciting spring workshop!
When: Friday, March 26, 2010
Support vector machines (SVMs) have
established
themselves as one of the preeminent machine
learning/statistical models for classification and
regression over the past decade or so, frequently
outperforming artificial neural networks in tasks such
as text mining and bioinformatics. The aim of this
workshop is to give you an understanding on what is
going on "under the hood" when using SVMs. After
completing this workshop, you will be able to interpret
the performance of SVM models and make
appropriate choices for model parameters during the
model evaluation and selection cycle. You will
understand the difference between linear, polynomial,
and gaussian kernels and know how to tune their
parameters. In addition, you will have a deep
understanding on how the cost constant "C" affects
the quality of your models. The workshop is based on
the R statistical computing environment and will draw
on material from the book Knowledge Discovery with
Support Vector Machines (Wiley, 2009). For more information and to register, go to http://www.chicagoasa.org/Workshops/e032610. htm
Here's an excerpt from an interesting
New York Times article debating
whether
students are being prepared for massive data.
Training to Climb an Everest of Digital
Data
by Ashlee Vance For the entire article, click here.
**PLEASE NOTE EDITOR'S NEW CONTACT INFORMATION**
Editor: Linda Burtch (847) 440-8560
PARAMETER, newsletter of the Chicago Chapter of
the American Statistical Association, is
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submit
material for publication, contact the Editor,
Linda Burtch, email:
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For additional information about Chicago Chapter
ASA, please visit us on the web at:
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Email change of address to:
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