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3 * ! 		Sun, 7/30/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-338
Statistical Methods for Health Economics and Applied Econometrics in Health Policy — Invited Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section , Business and Economic Statistics Section , Biopharmaceutical Section , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Sherri Rose, Harvard Medical School
Chair(s): Haochang Shou, University of Pennsylvania
2:05 PM Computational Health Economics for Health Care Spending — Sherri Rose, Harvard Medical School ; Savannah Bergquist, Harvard University ; Tim Layton, Harvard Medical School
2:30 PM Technical Solutions for Practical Problems in Accounting for Medical and Non-Medical Risk in Massachusetts' Medicaid Program — Arlene S. Ash, University of Massachusetts Medical School
2:55 PM Statistical Methods for Developing Cost-Effective Biomarker Combinations for Disease Diagnosis and Prognosis — Aasthaa Bansal, University of Washington ; Patrick Heagerty, University of Washington ; Lotte Steuten, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
3:20 PM Meta-Learners for Estimating Conditional Average Treatment Effects Using Machine Learning — Sören Künzel, UC Berkeley ; Jasjeet Sekhon, UC Berkeley ; Peter Bickel, UC Berkeley ; Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

8 * ! 		Sun, 7/30/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-331/332
Statistics and the Reproducibility Crisis — Invited Papers
The American Statistician , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics , Caucus for Women in Statistics , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Nicole Lazar, University of Georgia
Chair(s): Nicole Lazar, University of Georgia
2:05 PM The Tools for Reproducibility Exist; P-Values Aren't the Problem; It's Time for the Real Work of Data Science — Jeffrey Leek, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2:30 PM P-Values: Variability, Reproducibility and Lessons from Multiple Testing — Naomi Altman, Penn State University
2:55 PM Resolving the Reproducibility Crisis Using Bayesian Inference — Andrew Gelman, Columbia Unversity ; Blake McShane, Northwestern University
3:20 PM Discussant: Valen Johnson, Texas A&M University
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

17 * ! 		Sun, 7/30/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-350
Communication and Collaboration: Greatest Hits from CSP! — Topic Contributed Papers
Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Statistics Without Borders , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): MoonJung Cho, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Chair(s): Jean Adams, US Geological Survey
2:05 PM Coming Out of the Casket: Techniques for Becoming a More Effective Speaker — Eric Stephens, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2:25 PM The Face of the Statistical Consultant — Philip Rocco Scinto, Lubrizol
2:45 PM Explaining Statistics to Non-Statisticians — Heather Smith, CalPoly ; Eric Vance, LISA-University of Colorado Boulder
3:05 PM Using Video to Improve Your Collaboration Skills — Eric Vance, LISA-University of Colorado Boulder ; Heather Smith, CalPoly
3:25 PM Some Lessons I've Learned on Leadership and Influence During My Career — Nathaniel Schenker, Retired
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

24 		Sun, 7/30/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-341
Statistical Computing and Graphics Student Awards — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Computing , Section on Statistical Graphics , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Patrick Breheny, University of Iowa
Chair(s): Patrick Breheny, University of Iowa
2:05 PM Acc: An R Package to Process, Visualize, and Analyze Accelerometer Data — Jae Joon Song, University of Texas Health Science Center ; Michael Swartz, The University of Texas Health Science Center At Houston, School of Public Health ; Matthew G. Cox, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ; Karen Basen-Engquist, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
2:25 PM The Biglasso Package: a Memory- and Computation-Efficient Solver for Lasso Model Fitting with Big Data in R — Yaohui Zeng, University of Iowa ; Patrick Breheny, University of Iowa
2:45 PM Scalable Bayesian Learning for Sparse Logistic Models — Xichen Huang ; Feng Liang, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
3:05 PM The Self-Multiset Sampler and Its Generalization — Weihong Huang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Juan Shen, Fudan University ; Yuguo Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3:25 PM Chambers Award Recipient: Carson Sievert — Carson Sievert, Carson Sievert
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

CE_43P 		Sun, 7/30/2017, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM H-Holiday Ballroom 2
Career Development: Statistical Soft Skills: They're Essential — Professional Development Personal Skills Development
ASA , Committee on Career Development , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Dawn E. Eash, Berkeley Research Group
2:00 PM Career Development: Statistical Soft Skills: They're Essential — Dawn E. Eash, Berkeley Research Group
 
 

103 * 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-349
The Development of Dynamic and Interactive Graphics — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Graphics , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Michael Friendly, York University
Chair(s): Kenny Shirley, Amazon
8:35 AM Dynamic and Interactive Graphics in Lisp-Stat — Luke Tierney, University of Iowa
9:05 AM The Prehistory of Dynamic and Interactive Graphics: Visualizing Time and Motion — Michael Friendly, York University
9:35 AM Some reflections on developments of dynamic and interactive graphics in the 1980s-1990s — Dan Carr, George Mason University
10:05 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

200 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-Ballroom I
Introductory Overview Lecture: Data Science: A Collaboration of Statistics and Computer Science — Invited Special Presentation
JSM Partner Societies , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): David Van Dyk, Imperial College London
Chair(s): Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley
2:05 PM Data Science: Collaborations Across Computer Science and Statistics — Lise Getoor, University of California, Santa Cruz
2:55 PM Statistical Learning with Big Data — Robert Tibshirani, Stanford University
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

211 * 		Mon, 7/31/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-326
A Consulting Dish Cooked Three Ways: Contrasting Approaches for Dealing with Internal, External, and Academic Consulting Clients — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Consulting , Statistics Without Borders , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Andrew Vesper, Deloitte Consulting
Chair(s): Andrew Vesper, Deloitte Consulting
2:05 PM A Consulting Dish Cooked Three Ways: Contrasting Approaches for Dealing with Internal, External, and Academic Consulting Clients — Nikola Andric, Deloitte Consulting LLP
2:35 PM Consulting Dish Cooked Three Different Ways: The Recipe and Execution of the Dish from the Side of Academics — Nairanjana Dasgupta, Washington State University
3:05 PM The Recipe and Execution of the Dish from the Side of Internal Statistical Consultant — Todd Sanger, Eli Lilly and Company
3:35 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

214735 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM CC-335
2018 Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee — Other Cmte/Business
Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Chair(s): Jean Adams, US Geological Survey
 
 

326 * 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-343
The World of Statistical Analysis Professionals — Topic Contributed Papers
Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Nancy Wang, Celerion
Chair(s): Nancy Wang, Celerion
10:35 AM A Statistician's Role in the Utilization of REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture) in an Academic Research Setting — Hannah Palac, AbbVie
10:55 AM When Statistics and Housing Intersect: Role of Statistician in Housing Finance Agency — Kodjo Houssou, Minnesota Housing Finance Agency
11:15 AM Tips for Working in Tech — Tim Hesterberg, Google
11:35 AM Predictive Analytics in Industrial Asset Health Management — Wenyu Zhao, Schlumberger
11:55 AM The Large Within- and Between-Agency Variance of Federal Statistical Careers — Michael Messner, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

389 * ! 		Tue, 8/1/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-314
The Essential Power of Interactive Graphics — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Graphics , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Gabriel Becker, Genentech Research
Chair(s): Gabriel Becker, Genentech Research
2:05 PM Applications of Interactive Exploration of Large Multi-Panel Faceted Displays Using Trelliscope — Ryan Hafen, Purdue University
2:30 PM Extracting Insights from Genomic Data via Complex Interactive Heatmaps — Alicia Schep, Stanford School of Medicine
2:55 PM Visualizing the Changing Landscape of Software Developers — David Robinson, StackOverflowcom
3:20 PM Discussant: Kenny Shirley, Amazon
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

450 * 		Wed, 8/2/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-318
Challenges and Rewards of Major Career Changes for Collaborative Statisticians — Invited Panel
Section on Statistical Consulting , Committee on Career Development , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Kim Love, K. R. Love Quantitative Consulting and Collaboration
Chair(s): Nathaniel Schenker, Retired
8:30 AM Challenges and Rewards of Major Career Changes for Collaborative Statisticians
Panelists: Kim Love, K. R. Love Quantitative Consulting and Collaboration
Lillian Lin, Montana State University
Christopher Holloman, Information Control Company
Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, The RAND Corporation
10:10 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

502 * ! 		Wed, 8/2/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-318
Essential Skills for Communicating Statistics — Topic Contributed Panel
Royal Statistical Society , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Caucus for Women in Statistics , Statistics Without Borders , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Brian Tarran, Editor, Significance Magazine
Chair(s): Brian Tarran, Editor, Significance Magazine
10:35 AM Essential Skills for Communicating Statistics
Panelists: Neda Afsarmanesh, Sense About Science USA
Carl Bialik, Yelp
Emma Pierson, Stanford University
Liberty Vittert, University of Glasgow
Howard Wainer, Statistician and author
John Bailer, Miami University, and Stats+Stories podcast
12:10 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

599 * ! 		Thu, 8/3/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-323
Creating Interactive Graphics — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Graphics , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): John Muschelli, Johns Hopkins University
Chair(s): Peter Hickey, Johns Hopkins University
8:35 AM Interactive Data Visualization on the Web Using R — Carson Sievert, Carson Sievert
9:00 AM Guiding Principles for Interactive Graphics Based on LIBD Data Science Projects — Leonardo Collado-Torres, Lieber Institute for Brain Development ; Bill Ulrich, Lieber Institute for Brain Development ; Stephen Semick, Lieber Institute for Brain Development ; Andrew E Jaffe, Lieber Institute for Brain Development
9:25 AM Beyond Axes: Simulating Systems with Interactive Graphics — Sean Kross, Johns Hopkins University
9:50 AM Discussant: John Muschelli, Johns Hopkins University
10:05 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

602 * ! 		Thu, 8/3/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-321
Bridging the Gap Between Statistics and Other Data Sciences: Where's the Bridge? Where's the Gap? — Invited Panel
Section on Statistical Consulting , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , Section on Statistical Computing , Statistics Without Borders , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee , Statistics in Business Schools Interest Group
Organizer(s): Jason Brinkley, American Institutes for Research
Chair(s): Jason Brinkley, American Institutes for Research
8:35 AM Bridging the Gap Between Statistics and Other Data Sciences: Where's the Bridge? Where's the Gap?
Panelists: Edward Boone, Virginia Commonwealth University
Randy Bartlett, Blue Sigma Analytics
Mark Lancaster, Northern Kentucky University
Andrew Ekstrom, University of Michigan - Dearborn
Fred Hulting, General Mills
10:10 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

646 * 		Thu, 8/3/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-317
Big Data with Bite-Sized Solutions — Topic Contributed Papers
Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Biopharmaceutical Section , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Vipin Arora, Eli Lilly and Company
Chair(s): Ram Tiwari, FDA/CDER/OT/OB
10:35 AM Big Data with Bite Size Solutions — Spencer Lourens, Indiana University
10:55 AM Piecewise Solutions to Big Data — Anuradha Roy, The University of Texas at San Antonio ; Henry Chacon, The University of Texas at San Antonio
11:15 AM Leveraging Machine Learning in the Analysis of Safety Data in Drug Research and Healthcare Informatics — Melvin Munsaka, Safety Statistics and Observational Res Analytics, Takeda
11:35 AM Uncovering What Is Inside the Data Using Effective Visualization — Vipin Arora, Eli Lilly and Company ; Xiang Zhang, Eli Lilly and Company
11:55 AM Discussant: Judith D. Goldberg, New York Unversity School of Medicine
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

657 * ! 		Thu, 8/3/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-321
The Leadership Journey for Statisticians — Topic Contributed Panel
Section on Statistical Consulting , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts , Caucus for Women in Statistics , Conference on Statistical Practice Steering Committee
Organizer(s): Gary R Sullivan, Eli Lilly and Company
Chair(s): Gary R Sullivan, Eli Lilly and Company
10:35 AM The Leadership Journey for Statisticians
Panelists: Nancy Geller, National Institutes of Health
Stacy Lindborg, Biogen
F. Dubois Bowman, Columbia University
Robert N. Rodriguez, SAS Institute
12:10 PM Floor Discussion
 
 
 
 
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