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Thursday, October 19

Thu, Oct 19, 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Vicino Ballroom

GS1 - Opening Remarks and Plenary Presentation I
General Session

Chair(s): Kim Sellers, Georgetown University

Making Your Mark

View Presentation Susmita Datta, University of Florida

Thu, Oct 19, 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Aventine Ballroom A

CS01 - Statistics and Social Justice
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Maria Wang, Bayer

2:45 PM

Statistics in the Courts
Alicia Laura Carriquiry, Iowa State University

3:30 PM

Are Women Statisticians More Motivated by Social Justice? Hands-On Projects for Students

View Presentation Mary W. Gray, American University

Thu, Oct 19, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Aventine Ballroom G

P1 - Opening Mixer, Speed Poster 1, and Speed Mentoring sponsored by Wiley
Poster

Data Science for the Thoughtful Home: Innovation at Nest
Rosie Buchanan, Nest

Predicting Breakoffs in Web Surveys
Felicitas Mittereder, University of Michigan, ISR

Statistical Allocation for Epsilon (SAFE) and Its Application in Differentially Private Release and Analysis of Voter Registration Data
Claire McKay Bowen, University of Notre Dame

An Overview of Network Sampling Methods: On- and Off-Line
Haema Nilakanta, University of Minnesota

Shrinking networks: a spatial analysis of bank branch closures
Anna Elizabeth Tranfaglia, Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Probabilistic Predictive Principal Component Analysis for Spatially-Misaligned and High-Dimensional Air Pollution Data
Phuong T Vu, University of Washington

Identifying Drivers of Spatial Variability with Bayesian Occupancy Models
Staci Hepler, Wake Forest University

Retrospective Genetic Association Testing with Binary Traits in Structured Samples Using a MCMC-based Approach
JOELLE MBATCHOU, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

Speaking for Herself: Changing Gender Roles in Survey Response
Amy Marie Oksol, Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank

Demographic Profiling using Census Data and Anonymized & Aggregated Mobility Network Data
Olivia Hong, AT&T Research Labs

Determining Unique Sellers on Online Anonymous Marketplaces
Xiao Hui Tai, Carnegie Mellon University

Structure prediction and network analysis of enzymes from carnivorous plant, Drosera capensis
megha hemant unhelkar, UC Irvine

Small-Area Estimation as a Tool for Supplementing Survey Data and Better Data Utilization
Yueyan Wang, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Measuring Badness Across the Web
Julia Nalven, Google

Mining Mental Health Surveys From Tech Workers
Mikaela A Miller, Children's Mercy Hospital

Mixture Models for Grouped Insurance Loss Data in Presence of Partial Information
Tatjana Miljkovic, Miami University

Comparison of Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Models for a Multiethnic Patient Population
Alyssa Hope Columbus, University of California, Irvine

Defining transcriptional activity states by leveraging massive, public RNAseq datasets
Ayshwarya Subramanian, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health/ Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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, 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, 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 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, 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

Saturday, October 21

Sat, Oct 21, 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Aventine Ballroom G

P4 - Continental Breakfast and Speed Poster 4 sponsored by Bank of America
Poster

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

Spatiotemporal Bias Correction of Sea Ice Predictions
Hannah M Director, University of Washington

Statistical and Computational Methods for Analyzing Accelerometer Data
Selene Xu, UC San Diego

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

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

Comparison of Machine learning algorithms for imbalanced multi-level classification of Alzheimer’s disease using MRI data
Poulami Barman, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic, MN

Clustering Coefficient Analysis through Small-Scale Diffusion Testing
Claire Evelyn Kelling, Penn State

Combining Inference from Paired and Unpaired Data
Namrata Pradip Deshpande, Cytel Statistical Software & Services

Efficient Bounds for Best Subset Selection using Mixed Integer Linear Programming
Ana Maria Kenney, Pennsylvania State University

Dynamic Latent Factor Modeling of UN Voting Networks
Bomin Kim, The Pennsylvania State University

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

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

Biomedical Time Series Representations in the Presence of Structured Information
Madalina Fiterau, Stanford University

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

Mosaic Plots in the 'ggplot2' Framework
Haley Jeppson, Iowa State University

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

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

Sat, Oct 21, 8:45 AM - 9:45 AM
Vicino Ballroom

GS4 - Plenary Presentation III
General Session

Chair(s): Satkartar Kinney, RTI International

Questions I Should Have Asked …

View Presentation Bonnie Ray, Unaffiliated

Sat, Oct 21, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Aventine Ballroom A

CS18 - Digital Agriculture: Methods and Implications
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Jessica Jaynes, California State University, Fullerton

10:00 AM

Creation of Management Zones at the Climate Corporation

View Presentation Jooyoon Han, The Climate Corporation

10:30 AM

Hypothesis Formulation, Experimental Design, and the Analysis of a Digital Agriculture Trial to Evaluate Novel Precision Farming Algorithms
Kate Jie Hu, The Climate Corporation

11:00 AM

Managing Spatio-Temporal Variability of Critical Soil Nutrients on Farms

View Presentation Maria Antonia Terres, The Climate Corporation

Sat, Oct 21, 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM
Aventine Ballroom A

CS23 - Tools for Data Science
Concurrent Session

Chair(s): Kaylee Ho, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

11:45 AM

Make Prettier Shiny Apps

View Presentation Sadie Gill, FlowWest

12:15 PM

Interacting with Databases from R and Shiny

View Presentation Barbara Alexandra Borges Ribeiro, RStudio

12:45 PM

Master of Many Machines: Data Science Collaboration Across Jupyter, Zeppelin, and R in the Cloud

View Presentation Kelly O'Briant, B23

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