Biostatistics Education Summer Training Program

LA’s Biostatistics Education Summer Training program at USC (LA’s BEST@USC) provides an opportunity for outstanding undergraduate college students in math and science to gain exposure to public health research as biostatisticians/health data scientists at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Applicants from underrepresented groups are especially encouraged.

Click HERE for more information.

CSU Student Research Competition

Have you completed most of the work for your senior project or Master’s thesis and are you eager to share the results? Would you like to compare your work to that of other students throughout California? Are you interested in gaining external recognition that will be valued by a graduate school or employer?

The CSU’s Annual Student Research Competition gives you the opportunity to do just that – while also competing for cash prizes!

This year’s competition will be held at Cal State East Bay. For more information and competition guidelines, visit our website. Please contact your faculty advisor and/or college dean’s office if you are interested. We will continue to update our website as we receive more information from Cal State East Bay- please check back regularly.

Important Dates:
January 23rd, 2020: Deadline for submission of college-nominated projects to the Office of Research and Economic Development. Please contact your college for its preliminary deadline (you must submit your project to your dean’s office prior to this date and they will send your project to the Office of Research and Economic Development).

February 22nd, 2020: On-campus review of student presentations and selection of entries to CSU statewide competition.

March 17th, 2020 (tentative date; East Bay will release the exact date soon): If selected for statewide competition, deadline for registration with Cal State East Bay (more info).

April 24-25th, 2020: Statewide competition at Cal State East Bay.

Undergraduate Summer Internship at GAP Inc.

Gap Inc. Technology is looking for exceptional talent with fresh ideas, cutting-edge skills, and a passion for technology.We’re not your average IT shop, and this isn’t your average internship. In your 10 weeks with Gap Inc., you’ll have a voice in the room, be pushed to take risks, and play a critical role in innovative projects that are transforming retail technology. Ready to get started?

https://corporate.gapinc.com/en-us/jobs/28/90/undergrad-summer-internship-data-science

Sports Internships & Job Opportunities

Interested in interning or working for a sports team? Check out https://www.teamworkonline.com/. Suggested job title searches include: intern, statistics, data, and analyst.

2019 NSA Codebreaker Challenge

The 2019 Codebreaker Challenge consists of a series of tasks that are worth a varying amount of points based upon their difficulty. All tasks will become available immediately once the Challenge goes live and can be solved in any order, though there may be some dependencies between tasks. The point value associated with each task is based on relative difficulty and schools will be ranked according to the total number of points accumulated by their students. It is still recommended to solve tasks in order since the tasks flow with the storyline, but that is not a requirement. Solutions may be submitted at any time for the duration of the Challenge.

For more information visit https://codebreaker.ltsnet.net/challenge

Upcoming Hackathon - SLO Hacks Go

SLO Hacks, an on-campus club, is hosting Cal Poly's largest student-run hackathon. A hackathon is an event where students can create an app, startup, or any creative project in the span of a weekend. These projects are then presented to industry professionals and companies.

We have a 12-hour beginner oriented hackathon called SLO Hacks Go on November 16th, 8am-8pm at the Advanced Technology Labs (ATL) building 7. This event is aimed towards those who have little to no programming experience or have never attended a hackathon before. But is open to all majors and skill levels. Also, there will be free food, swag, and prizes!

Apply at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/slo-hacks-go-tickets-75374704771?aff

Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference Update

The Statistics Department is pleased to host a 'satellite viewing' of the Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference on Nov 1 in Baker (180-537). The conference sessions begin at 8:30AM and ends at 1:40PM and are broken in to five primary sessions (including a session for you to present your research, if you are interested -- see below)

Conference Session Schedule 

8:30 AM - 9:20 AM - Virtual Video Presentation (Watch and discuss 5-minute video presentations by undergraduate statistics student researchers around the world)

9:20 AM - 11:00 AM - Opening Remarks and Plenary Talks by winners of the Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Keynote: Foundations vs. Evolution in Data Science by Jennifer Thompson

12:00 PM - 12:45 PM - Graduate School Information

12:45 PM - 1:40 PM - Panel Discussion: Careers in Industry and Government

You are invited to attend some or all of the conference. We'll have breakfast during the morning two sessions, lunch for the keynote at 11, and cookies in the afternoon Graduate and Career info sessions. To help us plan our food, please RSVP on this google form by adding your name to the session you plan to attend. AND, to help the conference organizers get a sense of attendance, please also take a moment (maybe 10 seconds) to register (for free) for the conference.

Upcoming Internships @ Disney

Data Analytics Internship, Spring 2020 – Burbank, CA

Analytics Engineering Internship, Spring 2020 – Burbank, CA

2020 Big Data Bowl

The National Football League is launching its second version of their data analysis competition, the Big Data Bowl, aimed at attracting analysts and fans interested in working with complex player tracking data. The primary aims of the Big Data Bowl are to crowdsource insight into novel and important NFL data questions and to create a pipeline for future team analytics staffers. Eleven folks who participated in last year's competition eventually went on to work with NFL clubs or their affiliates.

This year's contest is hosted on Kaggle, a popular repository for data science competitions. The primary goal for participants is to predict the yards gained on rush plays, using game, play, and player characteristics, including player locations at handoff stemming from the NFL's Next Gen Stats player tracking data. You (individually or team - including faculty) can sign up at www.kaggle.com/c/nfl-big-data-bowl-2020. The winners of this competition will share $75,000 in prize money.

In addition to the primary contest on Kaggle, college students are invited to submit PDF reports of their work to us as part of a subcontest designed specifically for students. Up to six collegiate participants or participant groups will be selected to travel and present in front of NFL team analytics staffers at the league's scouting combine in Indianapolis. More detail on this part of the competition can be found at operations.nfl.com/the-game/big-data-bowl

Fall 2019 Data Challenge

For the third year running The American Statistical Association is offering teams of two to five students the opportunity to compete in the Fall Data Challenge. This year the challenge focuses on studying data pertaining to homelessness specifically in Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle. Details about to get involved are here. While the prizes are small, the experience and bragging rights for your resume would be valuable. The submission deadline is 11:59 PM EST on Monday, October 28th.

ICES Conference – June 2020 New Orleans

The ICES conference will be held June 2020 in New Orleans.  Please consider sharing this student paper contest opportunity with your students or forward to your colleagues as appropriate.  Two tracks include missing data treatments, and visualization and analysis of economic statistical data.  Groups of as many as five students may submit entries.  If selected, students could win travel support to present their work in a dedicated session at the conference.  Details are available here:

https://ww2.amstat.org/meetings/ices/2020/studentcontest.cfm

Winter Internship

Milliman San Francisco is hiring a winter intern.  The position begins in January. It would be a great job for a December grad. It may turn into a full-time position.

https://recruiting2.ultipro.com/MIL1017/JobBoard/f54234e9-dfde-b183-fd20-4fbdb19cba7a/OpportunityDetail?opportunityId=63a1d397-dcf3-46ca-b5c2-22ee2ef1e92a

SGF Student Symposium

The SGF Student Symposium is an opportunity for students to demonstrate their skills in extracting meaningful information from real-life data. Teams of students, along with a faculty advisor, will define a problem and then execute appropriate analysis to solve that problem. Submissions are evaluated by a panel of analytics professionals. The top teams compete in the finals with oral presentations at SAS Global Forum.

Click here for more information.

Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition (USPROC)

Are you working on a cool class project or other project? How about entering in the Undergraduate Statistics Project Competition sponsored by the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education and the American Statistical Association? There are two deadlines depending on when you'll be doing the work:

20 Dec 2019 - 1st submission deadline (for Summer/Fall 2019 research activity)

26 Jun 2020 - 2nd submission deadline (for Winter/Spring 2020 research activity)

https://www.causeweb.org/usproc/ 

Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference - November 1, 2019

Save the Date!

This a live/virtual conference on Friday, November 1st, 8:30am - 1:40pm. We'll be sending out an announcement soon about where on campus we will gather to watch presentations together. We'll have snacks! The full program for the conference is here. Topics include talks from USPROC winners (see above competition), comparing Foundations vs. Evolution in Data Science, Graduate School Information, and a Discussion about Careers in Industry and Government.