Thursday, October 3

Thu, Oct 3, 7:30 AM - 6:00 PM
Evergreen Ballroom Prefunction

Registration
Other

Thu, Oct 3, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Evergreen A

SC1 - Introduction to Spark with R Fill out evaluation
Short Course (Half Day)

Instructor(s): Kelly O'Briant, RStudio

This course will be a “hands on” introduction to sparklyr a package that facilitates a connection between R and Spark. Spark is an attractive tool for interfacing with large datasets in an interactive environment. Spark also incorporates a variety of other tools including stream processing, computing on graphs, and a distributed machine learning framework. In this course you will learn about the tools are available to R programmers via the sparklyr package.

Thu, Oct 3, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Auditorium

SC2 - Communicating Quantitative Information Is Hard! Strategies for Success Fill out evaluation
Short Course (Half Day)

Instructor(s): Regina Nuzzo, American Statistical Association; Kristin Lynn Sainani, Stanford University

You’re an expert in your field. You’re passionate about the subject. So then why does it sometimes feel like such a struggle to help others really understand important concepts and results in your work? It’s not just you. Experts are now realizing that communicating statistics and data science information is surprisingly hard -- harder than most other fields, actually, and definitely not something for which most of us have received any training. Luckily, there are a few relatively straightforward strategies to master that can go a long way in making things easier. This course will be a fun and interactive look at those strategies, with opportunities to practice new skills in a safe and supportive environment. Non-native English language users and/or those who have traumatic memories of high school English class are especially welcomed.

Thu, Oct 3, 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Evergreen Ballroom Prefunction

Exhibits Open
Exhibitor

Thu, Oct 3, 1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Evergreen EF

GS1 - Opening Remarks and Plenary Panel Presentation Fill out evaluation
General Session

Creating and Sustaining Respectful and Inclusive Community
Stephanie Hicks, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Wendy Martinez, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Thu, Oct 3, 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM
Evergreen Ballroom Prefunction

Refreshment Break
Other

Thu, Oct 3, 2:45 PM - 3:47 PM
Evergreen I

S1 - Speed Session 1 Fill out evaluation
Speed Oral Session

2:45 PM

Using Meta-Analysis on Clinical Data to Refute a Common Misconception About Toothpaste
Yuanshu Zou, Procter & Gamble

2:48 PM

Patient-Specific Phylogenetic and Pathway Analysis of Tumor Evolution
Tingting Zhai, University of Kentucky

2:51 PM

Nonparametric Multivariate Tests for Association
Yan Xu, University of Kentucky

2:54 PM

Weighted LAD-LASSO for Robust Variable Selection for Grouped Data
Kristin Lilly, Columbus State University

2:57 PM

Identifying Optimal Visual Field Locations to Detect Glaucoma Using Divergence Tests
Monica Ahrens, The University of Iowa

3:00 PM

Adaptive Batching for Gaussian Process Surrogates with Application in Noisy Level Set Estimation
Xiong Lyu, University of California, Santa Barbara

3:03 PM

Conditionally Specified Joint Distribution for Self-Proxy Data in Gerontology Studies
Nadeesri Wijekoon, University of Maryland Baltimore County

3:06 PM

Withdrawn - A New Measure of Diagnostic Accuracy with Cut-Point Selection Criterion for K-Stage Diseases Using Concordance and Discordance
Jing Kersey, Georgia Southern University

3:09 PM

Adjusting for Misreporting in Count Data
Gelareh Rahimi, Carle Foundation Hospital

3:12 PM

Detecting Pair-Copula Dependence Using Convolutional Neural Network
Xiao Yuan, Purdue University Fort Wayne

3:15 PM

Evaluating Heterogeneity in the Effect of Reduced Nicotine Content Cigarettes
Chuyu Deng, University of Minnesota

3:18 PM

Efficiency of Multiple Imputation for Retrieving Data with Missing Not at Random (MNAR) Patterns Under Objective Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches
Sofia De los Ángeles Bartels Gómez, University of Costa Rica

3:21 PM

Estimating Time to Intermediate Endpoints Using Population-Level Survival Data and Deconvolution Methods, with Application to Cancer Progression and Recurrence
Marlena Bannick, University of Washington

3:24 PM

Testing Presence-Absence Association in the Microbiome Using LDM and PERMANOVA
Andrea Nicole Lane, Emory University

3:27 PM

A Nonparametric Approach to Evaluating the Point of Treatment Time-Lag Effect
Kayoung Park, Old Dominion University

3:30 PM

Assessment of Bioequivalence and Biosimilarity
Rabab Elnaiem, UMBC

3:33 PM

Inferring Diploid 3D Chromatin Structures from Hi-C Data
Gesine Alexandra Cauer, University of Washington

3:36 PM

Imputed Transcriptome-Wide Association Studies of Blood Cell Traits in European Ancestry Cohorts
Amanda L Tapia, University of North Carolina

3:39 PM

Withdrawn -Noninferiority to Superiority Hypotheses Testing for Multiple Endpoints with Gatekeeping for Type I Error
Siying Sylvia Li, IQVIA

3:42 PM

The Role of Experiment, Acquisition Method, Modeling Strategy, and Individual and Spatial Variability on Residual Autocorrelation in Task fMRI Analysis
FATMA PARLAK, Indiana University

Thu, Oct 3, 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Evergreen A

CS01 - Conference Within a Conference: A Forum for Sharing a Research and Education Agenda Fill out evaluation
Panel Session

2:45 PM

Conference Within a Conference: A Forum for Sharing a Research and Education Agenda

View Presentation Emma Benn, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Brittney Green, University of Cincinnati; Wendy Martinez, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Jack Miller, University of Michigan; Miles Ott, Smith College; Suzanne Thornton, Swarthmore College

Thu, Oct 3, 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Evergreen B

CS03 - Concurrent Session - Leading the Way Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

2:45 PM

Leadership Tools for Women in a Technical Field
Barbara Nelson Stevens, CIA

3:15 PM

Leading Change in Data and Statistics: The Journey to Modernization of the US Equal Opportunity Commission’s Employer Information EEO-1 Survey
Rashida Dorsey, EEOC

3:45 PM

Transitioning into Leadership

View Presentation Heather Kopetskie, Rho, Inc.

Thu, Oct 3, 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Evergreen G

CS04 - Communication in the Digital Age: Successes and Challenges of Online Communication Fill out evaluation
Panel Session

2:45 PM

Communication in the Digital Age: Successes and Challenges of Online Communication
Abigail Shoben, The Ohio State University

Thu, Oct 3, 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Evergreen Ballroom H

CS05 - Concurrent Session - Developments in Predictive Modeling Fill out evaluation
Concurrent Session

2:45 PM

Open Standards for Predictive Model Deployment
Svetlana Levitan, IBM

3:15 PM

Modeling Visitation to Public Lands Using Social Media and Crowd-Sourced Data

View Presentation Sama Winder, University of Washington

3:45 PM

Real-Time Prediction of Bitcoin Bubbles and Crashes
Min Shu, Stony Brook University

Thu, Oct 3, 2:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Evergreen EF

CS09 - Leading and Facilitating Collaborative Decision-Making Fill out evaluation
Panel Session

2:45 PM

Leading and Facilitating Collaborative Decision-Making
Christine Anderson-Cook, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Sarah Burke, The Perduco Group; Lu Lu, University of South Florida

Thu, Oct 3, 3:48 PM - 5:00 PM
Evergreen I

S2 - Speed Session 2 Fill out evaluation
Speed Oral Session

3:48 PM

Using Data to Blaze New Trails for Women in Data Science
Che Smith, Advance Analytics

3:51 PM

An Introductory R Course for Statistics Majors

View Presentation Laura Taylor, Elon University

3:54 PM

Supporting Under-Represented Groups and Women in Biomedical Data Science
Judith E. Canner, California State University, Monterey Bay

3:57 PM

Factors Affecting Women's Success in STEM: A Narrative Study
Analyn Alquitran, University of Denver

4:00 PM

Data-Rich Journalism: Demographic Trends in Wisconsin's Schools

View Presentation Sarah Kemp, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Applied Population Laboratory

4:03 PM

Social Network Analysis of Cosponsorship in the 115th Congress
Arielle Dror, Smith College

4:06 PM

CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Schools
Marcela Alfaro Córdoba, Universidad de Costa Rica

4:09 PM

Data Analytics in the Archives: A Statistical Examination of the Robinson and Via Family Papers
Clara Roseberg, Smith College

4:12 PM

Interactive Data Visualization for International Policymakers
Sarah Zimmermann, RTI International

4:15 PM

Creative Methods for Teaching Data Visualization: Using Play-Doh in the Statistics Classroom
Jennifer Ann Morrow, University of Tennessee

4:18 PM

Evaluating the Impact of Generic Drug User Fee Amendments (GDUFA) on Speed of Generic Drug Entry
Shuxian Chen, University of Washington, The Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy, and Economics (CHOICE) Institute

4:21 PM

Tracking and Sharing Your Contributions: The Art of the Publication Database
Diane Rondeau, Fresenius Medical Care

4:24 PM

From Forensics to GANs: An Early-Career Statistician’s Experience Doing Research in a Government Lab
Amanda Koepke, National Institute of Standards and Technology

4:27 PM

Quantifying the Impact of Education and Family Planning on Fertility
Daphne H Liu, University of Washington

4:30 PM

Statistics Surviving in the World of Data Science

View Presentation Rechelle Jacobs, University of the Western Cape

4:33 PM

Developing Data Strategy: Leading Your Organization in Maximizing Its Use of Data and Statistics
Rashida Dorsey, EEOC

4:36 PM

The Benefits of an Interdisciplinary Women’s Research Support Group
Caitlin M Cunningham, Le Moyne College

4:39 PM

Investigation of Learning Analytics and Data Visualization Techniques
Vijayalakshmi Ramasamy, Miami University

4:42 PM

Health Care Access and Sociodemographic Determinants of Cervical Cancer Screening in Zimbabwe: Analysis of the Demographic and Health Survey
Thembekile Shato, Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice

Thu, Oct 3, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Evergreen Ballroom Prefunction

P1 - Opening Mixer and Speed Poster 1 Fill out evaluation
Speed Poster

Using Meta-Analysis on Clinical Data to Refute a Common Misconception About Toothpaste
Yuanshu Zou, Procter & Gamble

Patient-Specific Phylogenetic and Pathway Analysis of Tumor Evolution
Tingting Zhai, University of Kentucky

Nonparametric Multivariate Tests for Association

View Presentation Yan Xu, University of Kentucky

Weighted LAD-LASSO for Robust Variable Selection for Grouped Data

View Presentation Kristin Lilly, Columbus State University

Identifying Optimal Visual Field Locations to Detect Glaucoma Using Divergence Tests
Monica Ahrens, The University of Iowa

Adaptive Batching for Gaussian Process Surrogates with Application in Noisy Level Set Estimation
Xiong Lyu, University of California, Santa Barbara

Conditionally Specified Joint Distribution for Self-Proxy Data in Gerontology Studies
Nadeesri Wijekoon, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Withdrawn - A New Measure of Diagnostic Accuracy with Cut-Point Selection Criterion for K-Stage Diseases Using Concordance and Discordance
Jing Kersey, Georgia Southern University

Adjusting for Misreporting in Count Data
Gelareh Rahimi, Carle Foundation Hospital

Detecting Pair-Copula Dependence Using Convolutional Neural Network
Xiao Yuan, Purdue University Fort Wayne

Evaluating Heterogeneity in the Effect of Reduced Nicotine Content Cigarettes
Chuyu Deng, University of Minnesota

Testing Presence-Absence Association in the Microbiome Using LDM and PERMANOVA
Andrea Nicole Lane, Emory University

A Nonparametric Approach to Evaluating the Point of Treatment Time-Lag Effect
Kayoung Park, Old Dominion University

Assessment of Bioequivalence and Biosimilarity
Rabab Elnaiem, UMBC

Inferring Diploid 3D Chromatin Structures from Hi-C Data
Gesine Alexandra Cauer, University of Washington

Imputed Transcriptome-Wide Association Studies of Blood Cell Traits in European Ancestry Cohorts

View Presentation Amanda L Tapia, University of North Carolina

Withdrawn - Noninferiority to Superiority Hypotheses Testing for Multiple Endpoints with Gatekeeping for Type I Error
Siying Sylvia Li, IQVIA

The Role of Experiment, Acquisition Method, Modeling Strategy, and Individual and Spatial Variability on Residual Autocorrelation in Task fMRI Analysis
FATMA PARLAK, Indiana University

Thu, Oct 3, 5:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Evergreen A

Data Challenge (Sponsored by MIT) Fill out evaluation
Other

Organizer(s): Donna LaLonde, American Statistical Association

WSDS 2019 Data Challenge Goal To build community and challenge WSDS 2019 participants to contribute their time and talent to give back to their communities.

Focus To develop a project that contributes public awareness of how to spot disinformation.

Structure Teams will work to plan, design, and build an application or analyze complex data sets and develop informative visualizations. Teams are encouraged to be creative in how they take up this challenge.

More information and guidance will be provided during the Data Challenge Work Session Thursday, October 3. Each team will make a short presentation about their product Saturday, October 5.

Logistics Information about the data challenge will be shared via the WSDS community site.

Team size is flexible, but teams must have at least two people and no more than five people. Interorganizational teams are encouraged.

Teams must indicate their intent to participate by October 1 at 11:59 p.m. PT. All members of the team must be registered for WSDS. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSep4FZrKaxvw-_BV1TY_9cJsLmIsQF5HrIMh-MvIiSd2lRyxQ/viewform

Online Program

American Statistical Association