Friday, October 20

Fri, Oct 20, 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Aventine Ballroom G

P2 - Continental Breakfast and Speed Poster 2 sponsored by Bank of America
Poster

Research transparency and reproducibility in social sciences research: The role of women data scientists
Soazic Elise Wang Sonne, United Nations University/ Maastricht University

STEM-ulating Interest Among Girls
Maureen Alice McConnell-Martin, Experis

Lunar Effects on University of Wisconsin Eau Claire on-campus Housing Incidents
Thao Tran, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

Understanding Peace Processes through Social Media
Aastha Nigam, University of Notre Dame

'Youth, Globalization, and Extremism in the Middle East': Advancing Data Science in Research, Analysis, and Decision-Making
Natascha Camille Bolden, California State University San Bernardino and UCI Extension

Dental Carries Assessment via a Bayesian Hierarchical Spatial Model
Evercita Cuevas Eugenio, University of Notre Dame

Communicating results of functional data analyses with interactive graphics
Julia Wrobel, Columbia University

Women in Computer and Mathematical Occupations: An American Community Survey Perspective
Xuan T Pham, Rockhurst University

Reproducible research with R: application of tumor registry data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program.
Zhanna Galochkina, UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center

How to Effectively Communicate Commonly Misinterpreted Statistical Concepts
Paavni Rattan, Amazon

Using PechaKucha Presentations in the Statistics Classroom
Jennifer Ann Morrow, University of Tennessee

Crowd Sourced Panel Retention: Recruiting, Measuring, and Rewarding
Rachel Hacker, Nielsen

Jupyter Notebook for Reproducible Research. A Case Study: Predicting Breast Cancer Survivability.
Lorinette Saphire Wirth, Saint Louis University

Explain, Encourage, and Engage - Reaching your audience
Darlene C W Lopez, LeCroy & Milligan Associates

Data Science and UX to Understand Users' Experiences and Perceptions
Jennifer Romano Bergstrom, Facebook

Transferability of Statistical Computational Thinking and Abilities to Field Related Applications: A Phenomenological Study of Ecology and LRES Graduate Students
Allison Shay Theobold, Montana State University

How To Use Data to Influence People and Win Friends
Sydeaka Watson, AT&T Chief Data Office

Fri, Oct 20, 8:45 AM - 9:45 AM
Vicino Ballroom

GS2 - Plenary Presentation II
General Session

Chair(s): Ji-Hyun Lee, University of New Mexico School of Medicine

Statistical Leadership in the Federal Government

View Presentation Jeri Mulrow, Bureau of Justice Statistics

Fri, Oct 20, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Aventine Ballroom A

CS05 - Celebrating our Technical Contributions
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Wendy Martinez, Bureau of Labor Statistics

10:00 AM

Generalized Cp (GCp) and Bootstrap for Model Selection
Linda Zhou, University of Pennsylvania

10:45 AM

Visualization of Large-Scale Simulations for Scientific Discovery

View Presentation Joanne R. Wendelberger, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Fri, Oct 20, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Aventine Ballroom D

CS06 - Networking Among Junior Statisticians: Peer Mentoring and Strategies to Promote One Another (PANEL)
Panel

Chair(s): Rebecca Yates Coley, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute

10:05 AM

Networking Among Junior Statisticians: Peer Mentoring and Strategies to Promote One Another (Panel Discussion)

View Presentation Scarlett Bellamy, Drexel University; Andrea Cook, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute; Laura Hatfield, Harvard Medical School; Abigail Shoben, Ohio State University

Fri, Oct 20, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Aventine Ballroom C

CS07 - Choices, Challenges, and Opportunities
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Natasa Rajicic, Cytel Inc.

10:00 AM

Take Control of Your Career Path

View Presentation Heather Kopetskie, Rho, Inc.

10:45 AM

Reflections on a Women-Organized Conference
Beatriz Etchegaray Garcia, IBM Research

Fri, Oct 20, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Aventine Ballroom F

CS08 - Paths to Leadership (PANEL)
Panel

Chair(s): Ellen S. Snyder, Merck & Co., Inc.

10:05 AM

Paths to Leadership
Amanda L. Golbeck, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Amarjot Kaur, Merck & Co., Inc.; Bhramar Mukherjee, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health

Fri, Oct 20, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Aventine Ballroom E

CS09 - Survival Skills and Building Community
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Jingchen (Monika) Hu, Vassar College

10:00 AM

Power Dynamics in the Classroom: The Influence of Gender and Consequences for Promotion
Dalene Stangl, Duke University

10:30 AM

Why I Mentor
Johanna Hardin, Pomona College

11:00 AM

Some Critical Issues and Surviving Tips for Statisticians in Academia
Raquel Prado, UCSC

Fri, Oct 20, 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Refreshment Break sponsored by Two Sigma
Other

Fri, Oct 20, 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Aventine Ballroom A

CS10 - Harnessing the Data Deluge
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Priya Kohli, Connecticut College

11:45 AM

Wisdom Comes from Good Data

View Presentation Tamraparni Dasu, AT&T Labs - Research

12:30 PM

How May I Help You? Improving the Online Customer Experience Using Machine Learning

View Presentation Wen-Ling Hsu, AT&T Labs

Fri, Oct 20, 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Aventine Ballroom C

CS11 - Creating Positive Work Environments
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Shanthi Sethuraman, Eli Lilly and Company

11:45 AM

Creating a Safer Work Environment with Data Analytics and Microsoft Azure
Sarmila Basu, Microsoft

12:30 PM

It’s the Little Things That Matter: The Role of Mentoring on Nurturing the Next Generation of Data Scientists at AT&T
Lauren Savage, AT&T Chief Data Office

Fri, Oct 20, 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Aventine Ballroom D

CS12 - Playing in everyone’s back yard: Stories of success, lessons learned, and advice for productive and enjoyable collaborations (PANEL)
Panel

Chair(s): Kate Jie Hu, The Climate Corporation

11:50 AM

Playing in Everyone’s Back Yard: Stories of Success, Lessons Learned, and Advice for Productive and Enjoyable Collaborations

View Presentation Rebecca Hubbard, University of Pennsylvania; Megan Othus, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute; Layla Parast, RAND Corporation; Elizabeth Sugar, Johns Hopkins University

Fri, Oct 20, 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Aventine Ballroom F

CS13 - Knowledge, Community, Influence
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Jie Cui, Eli Lilly and Company

11:45 AM

Comparing and Contrasting Two Generations of Women Working in the Fields of Mathematics and Statistics

View Presentation Michelle M Wiest, University of Idaho

12:30 PM

Teaching Upper-Level Statistics Courses Through a Shared/Hybrid Model

View Presentation Jingchen (Monika) Hu, Vassar College

Fri, Oct 20, 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Aventine Ballroom E

S3 - Speed Session 3
Speed

Chair(s): Jessica Kohlschmidt, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center

11:48 AM

An Introduction to Developing R Packages
Christina P Knudson, University of St. Thomas

11:51 AM

Sentiment-Based Overlapping Community Discovery
FULYA OZCAN, UC IRVINE

11:54 AM

Cross-Market Unilateral Effects of Mergers on Multimarket Oligopolies

View Presentation Jessica R S Dutra, The University of Kansas

11:57 AM

Measuring Innovation from Patent Data Using Network Analysis
Tiffany Schleeter, Deloitte

12:00 PM

Maternal Mortality in the United States, 1960-2015
Nicole Victoria DeVille, University of California, Irvine

12:03 PM

Edge Effects: Some Notes on the Value of Interdisciplinarity in Analytics Development
Christine T Wolf, UC Irvine / IBM Research

12:06 PM

A Day in the Life of a Biostatistician in Tech: Flatiron Health
Elizabeth Margaret Sweeney, Flatiron Health

12:09 PM

Causal Mediation Analysis in the Combined Presence of Treatment Noncompliance and Missing Outcomes
Soojin Park, University of California, Riverside

12:12 PM

'I’m Not a Real [Fill in the Blank]': Imposter Syndrome (and What to Do About It)
Alisha Heather Creel, Abt Associates

12:15 PM

Moving Out from Behind the Scenes: Opportunities for Master’s-Level Statisticians to Effectively Influence Academic Research

View Presentation Tawny W Boyce, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center

12:18 PM

Women in Data Science: A Support Role Perspective
Diane Rondeau, Fresenius Medical Care - North America

12:21 PM

Engaging Undergraduates in Bayesian Thinking
Alicia Anne Johnson, Macalester College

12:24 PM

Beyond ANOVA: Moving Collaborators Past the Statistical Basics

View Presentation Caitlin Cunningham, Le Moyne College

12:27 PM

'One Servant, Two Masters': Survival Guide for a Successful Independent Statistician

View Presentation Tingting Li, Advanced Clinical

12:33 PM

Toward a Score-Based Approach to Compare Shoe Sole Impressions

View Presentation Soyoung Park, Iowa State University

12:36 PM

From Academia to Management in Applied Data Science
Carissa L Shafto, Galen College of Nursing

Fri, Oct 20, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Aventine Ballroom A

CS14 - Pushing Technical Boundaries
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Volha Tryputsen, Johnson & Johnson

2:30 PM

'Efron's Rules' for Inference After Imputation and Model Selection
Karen Messer, University of California, San Diego

3:15 PM

Move Out of the Comfort Zone and TextM for Crowdsourcing
Jiayang Sun, Case Western Reserve University

Fri, Oct 20, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Aventine Ballroom C

CS15 - Race Counts
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Alana Unfried, California State University Monterey Bay

2:30 PM

Race Counts: Crunching Data for Racial Justice in California
Yvonne Yen Liu, Advancement Project California

3:15 PM

A Story of Men

View Presentation Pamela S Willrodt, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Fri, Oct 20, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Aventine Ballroom D

CS16 - 'Too young' to lead…but stepping up anyway: shifting the leadership pendulum in (bio)statistics and data science (PANEL)
Panel

Chair(s): Emma K T Benn, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

2:35 PM

'Too Young' to Lead … but Stepping Up Anyway: Shifting the Leadership Pendulum in (Bio)Statistics and Data Science
Leslie Ain McClure, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health; Merlise A Clyde, Duke University; Dionne L Price, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; Elizabeth A Stuart, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Fri, Oct 20, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Aventine Ballroom F

CS17 - Address-Based Sampling and Other Trends in Survey Statistics (PANEL)
Panel

Chair(s): Ashley Amaya, RTI International

2:35 PM

Address-Based Sampling and Other Trends in Survey Statistics
Ashley Amaya, RTI International; Rachel Harter, RTI International; Katherine B. Morton, RTI International; Stephanie Zimmer, RTI International

Fri, Oct 20, 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Aventine Ballroom E

S4 - Speed Session 4
Speed

Chair(s): Melanie Bell, University of Arizona

2:33 PM

Lean Data Science: How to Productionize Machine Learning
Claire Lebarz, Turo

2:36 PM

Spatiotemporal Bias Correction of Sea Ice Predictions

View Presentation Hannah M Director, University of Washington

2:39 PM

Statistical and Computational Methods for Analyzing Accelerometer Data

View Presentation Selene Xu, UC San Diego

2:42 PM

Using State Space Models to Track Measles Infections
Kirsten E Eilertson, Penn State

2:45 PM

Model Adequacy Methods for Functional Regression Models
Melody Denhere, University of Mary Washington

2:48 PM

Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms for Imbalanced Multi-Level Classification of Alzheimer’s Disease Using MRI Data

View Presentation Poulami Barman, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, MN

2:51 PM

Clustering Coefficient Analysis Through Small-Scale Diffusion Testing

View Presentation Claire Evelyn Kelling, Penn State

2:54 PM

Combining Inference from Paired and Unpaired Data

View Presentation Namrata Pradip Deshpande, Cytel Statistical Software & Services

2:57 PM

Efficient Bounds for Best Subset Selection Using Mixed Integer Linear Programming

View Presentation Ana Maria Kenney, Pennsylvania State University

3:00 PM

Dynamic Latent Factor Modeling of UN Voting Networks

View Presentation Bomin Kim, The Pennsylvania State University

3:03 PM

Manifold Data Analysis with Applications to High-Frequency 3D Imaging
Hyun Bin Kang, The Pennsylvania State University

3:06 PM

Coherent Set Mining in Binary Data
Kelly Nicole Bodwin, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

3:09 PM

Biomedical Time Series Representations in the Presence of Structured Information

View Presentation Madalina Fiterau, Stanford University

3:12 PM

Integration of Sufficient Dimension Reduction and Boosting for Gene Expression Data
Nusrat Jahan, James Madison University

3:15 PM

Mosaic Plots in the 'Ggplot2' Framework
Haley Jeppson, Iowa State University

3:18 PM

Evaluating Methods to Address Auto-Correlation and Over-Dispersion in Time Series Mortality Data
Caprichia Jeffers, Emory University

3:21 PM

Approximate Confidence-Distribution Computing: An Effective Likelihood-Free Method with Statistical Guarantees
Suzanne Mary Thornton, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Fri, Oct 20, 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Aventine Ballroom G

P3 - Speed Poster 3 and Refreshments sponsored by AT&T
Poster

An Introduction to Developing R Packages
Christina P Knudson, University of St. Thomas

Sentiment-Based Overlapping Community Discovery
FULYA OZCAN, UC IRVINE

Cross-Market Unilateral Effects of Mergers on Multimarket Oligopolies
Jessica R S Dutra, The University of Kansas

Measuring Innovation from Patent Data using Network Analysis
Tiffany Schleeter, Deloitte

Maternal Mortality in the United States, 1960-2015
Nicole Victoria DeVille, University of California, Irvine

Edge Effects: Some Notes on the Value of Interdisciplinarity in Analytics Development
Christine T Wolf, UC Irvine / IBM Research

A Day in the Life of a Biostatistician in Tech: Flatiron Health
Elizabeth Margaret Sweeney, Flatiron Health

Causal Mediation Analysis in the combined presence of treatment noncompliance and missing outcomes
Soojin Park, University of California, Riverside

“I’m Not a Real [Fill in the Blank]”: Imposter Syndrome (And What to Do About It)
Alisha Heather Creel, Abt Associates

Moving Out from Behind the Scenes: Opportunities for master’s level statisticians to effectively influence academic research
Tawny W Boyce, University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center

Women in Data Science – A Support Role Perspective
Diane Rondeau, Fresenius Medical Care - North America

Engaging Undergraduates in Bayesian Thinking
Alicia Anne Johnson, Macalester College

Beyond ANOVA: Moving Collaborators Past the Statistical Basics
Caitlin Cunningham, Le Moyne College

“One servant, two masters”, survival guide for a successful independent statistician
Tingting Li, Advanced Clinical

Toward a score-based approach to compare shoe sole impressions
Soyoung Park, Iowa State University

From Academia to Management in Applied Data Science
Carissa L Shafto, Galen College of Nursing

Fri, Oct 20, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Vicino Ballroom

GS3 - Celebrating Women in Statistics and Data Science Banquet and Keynote Presentation Sponsored by Duke University and Google
General Session

Chair(s): Dalene Stangl, Duke University

Lessons and Strategies Distilled from Life Events: My Professional Story

View Presentation Donna Brogan, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

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American Statistical Association

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