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Congratulations to Kathryn Roeder, on being honored as Statistician of the Year by the ASA Chicago Chapter! Kathryn was honored recently at a banquet where she gave a talk titled “From prediction to inference: debiasing and confounder control in spatial transcriptomics”.
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StatDS professor Alex Reinhart and English professor David Brown provide insight into an ongoing investigation regarding Michelin’s suspected use of AI in their newest Dallas reviews. dmagazine.com/food-drink/202…
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Time is running out to register for the tenth annual Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Conference! Have you secured your spot yet? Registration closes Friday, October 16th at 11:59 pm EST. Visit our website to register today and beat the buzzer! cmsaconference.com/
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It's time for another CMSAC speaker highlight! Today, we are excited to announce Steven Mintz! Mintz is a Senior Data Scientist at the National Basketball Association! Registration for CMSAConference 2026 closes Friday, October 16th cmsaconference.com/
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We are pleased to announce the Heisman Hopefuls panel being held at this year's Sports Analytics Conference. The panel will discuss how analytics are helping modernize the Heisman race and make player evaluation more inclusive across positions. Registration closes October 16th
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It's that time of year again! Applications for our Master of Science in Applied Data Science (aka MADS) are now open! cmu.edu/dietrich/statistics-…
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Our second keynote speaker is on deck, ready to step up to the plate! We are proud to welcome Andrew Thomas from the Detroit Tigers to our tenth annual CMSAConference. Register today to save your place in his lecture; We guarantee it will be a home run cmsaconference.com/
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Time to announce our keynote speakers for CMSAConference 2026. First up, we are pleased to have the Vice President of Hockey Strategy and Research for the Buffalo Sabres, Sam Ventura!See the full information about Sam's talk on our website! cmsaconference.com/
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Carnegie Mellon Statistics & Data Science retweeted
Carnegie Mellon University has achieved its historically highest position in the @usnews Best Colleges rankings, rising six spots to No. 14 nationally in the 2027 list. The result marks a historic moment for CMU and reflects growing recognition of the university’s academic strengths, strong student outcomes and distinctive interdisciplinary model.
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Carnegie Mellon Statistics & Data Science retweeted
The week 3 #HeismanHopefuls Fan Vote Leaderboard is live! 🔥 Hopefuls.heisman.com
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Heisman in partnership with CMSAC announced the launch of Heisman Hopefuls, a first‑of‑its‑kind, season‑long analytics storytelling platform to give student-athletes from every program/position the opportunity to be part of the Heisman discussion. heisman.com/articles/heisman…
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Chad Schafer and Mikael Kuusela from the Department of Statistics & Data Science have partnered with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to develop AI tools to process huge amounts of data that could help us understand what makes up the universe
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Breaking StatDS News: Heisman Taps Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Center to Enhance Heisman Hopefuls Fan Voting and Analytics heisman.com/articles/heisman…
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Each year, the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) gives out the Distinguished Achievement Award, and this year’s award will go to Larry Wasserman, the UPMC University Professor of Statistics and Data Science at CMU. cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-s…
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Carnegie Mellon Statistics & Data Science retweeted
What's the chance of selecting a true superstar in the @NFLDraft? Utilizing average year 3-5 @EAMaddenNFL ratings from 1997 to 2023, we examine the probability of landing elite-level talent across rounds in the Draft. Check out the data: ops.nfl.com/4tz4xv1
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Carnegie Mellon Statistics & Data Science retweeted
This project was developed jointly with the @NFL and @Stat_Ron and @qntkhvn from the @CarnegieMellon Sports Analytics Center. See our previous analysis from earlier in the week. ⤵️ xitter.cf/NFLFootballOps/status/…
What is the value of a pick in the @NFLDraft? The answer: it's complicated. We dive into the math behind how Draft value charts are built and which teams have the best track record for picks on the Extra Point Blog: ops.nfl.com/4cHmMHo @Stat_Ron | @qntkhvn
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CMSAC and other experts from CMU’s Dietrich College are applying their strengths in statistics and data science, decision science and neuroscience to help professionals make better draft picks and to help the public understand the reasoning behind them. cmu.edu/dietrich/statistics-…
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CMSAC teamed up with the NFL for research on the historical value of an NFL draft pick, and football fans can now engage with that research through the NFL IQ AI chatbot. Visit this site to try it out for yourself: nfl.com/iq
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See how Sports Analytics and the NFL Draft go hand and hand in this article!
What is the value of a pick in the @NFLDraft? The answer: it's complicated. We dive into the math behind how Draft value charts are built and which teams have the best track record for picks on the Extra Point Blog: ops.nfl.com/4cHmMHo @Stat_Ron | @qntkhvn
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Statistics and sports take the forefront with Ron Yurko leading the charge today as the Carnegie Mellon Sports Analytics Center is taking part in Powering the Future of Sport: A Draft Week Showcase. cmu.edu/dietrich/statistics-…
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