Looking Back- Looking Forward; Statistics and the Data Science Tsunami (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Ridgway, J., Nicholson, J., & Ridgway, R. (2020). Looking Back- Looking Forward; Statistics and the Data Science Tsunami. In Proceeding of the 62nd ISI World Statistics Congress 2019: Special Topic Session: Volume 3 (47-56)

The discipline of statistics arose from pressing needs to address a variety of social and scientific problems. The founders of the Royal Statistical Society in the UK, and the American Statistical Association were very diverse in their backgrounds an... Read More about Looking Back- Looking Forward; Statistics and the Data Science Tsunami.

Citizen Empowerment - changing the face of statistical literacy (2019)
Conference Proceeding
(in press). Citizen Empowerment - changing the face of statistical literacy.

Data Science for all: A stroll in the foothills (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Ridgway, J., Ridgway, R., & Nicholson, J. (2018). Data Science for all: A stroll in the foothills. In M. . A. Sorto, A. White, & L. Guyot (Eds.), Looking back, looking forward : proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS10, July, 2018), Kyoto, Japan (1-6)

Data science presents both opportunities and threats to conventional statistics courses. Opportunities include being at the bleeding edge of data analysis, and learning new ways to model phenomena; threats include the challenge of learning new skills... Read More about Data Science for all: A stroll in the foothills.