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The workshops are training activities organized by the SSC Sections. Workshops will be held the  Sunday before and weekend after the annual meeting.  They are targeted to all meeting participants, including students. Registration is required for each workshop you wish to attend. You will be charged a fee for each workshop to which you register and may register for a maximum of one workshop on each of the three days.

  • Biostatistics Workshop
    Title: Best practices in computational reproducibility
    Speaker: Jean Baptiste Poline, McGill University; jean-baptiste.poline@mcgill.ca
    Date: Sunday, June 6, 2021
    Time: 11:00 - 17:00 (EDT)
  • Business and Industrial Statistics Workshop
    Title: Variational Bayes and Beyond: Bayesian inference for Big Data
    Speaker: Tamara Broderick, MIT; tamarab@mit.edu
    Date: Sunday, June 13, 2021
    Time: 11:00 - 15:00 (EDT)
  • Data Science and Analytics Workshop
    Title: The Data Scientist’s Workflow: EDA and Statistical Modeling with Python in Jupyter Notebooks
    Speakers: Chris Holdgraf, UC Berkeley; choldgraf@berkeley.edu; 
    David Liu, University of Toronto; david@cs.toronto.edu;
    Nathan Taback, University of Toronto; nathan.taback@utoronto.ca;
    Nathaniel Stevens, University of Waterloo; nstevens@uwaterloo.ca
    Date: Saturday, June 12, 2021
    Time: 13:00 - 16:00 (EDT)
  • Probability Workshop 
    Title:     Particle tracking in Biology using machine learning
    Speaker: Jay Newby, University of Alberta; jnewby@ualberta.ca
    Date: Sunday, June 13, 2021
    Time: 13:00 - 17:00 (EDT)
  • Statistical Education Workshop
    Title: Open Source Solutions for Online Teaching, Assessment and Grading
    Speakers: Bruce Dunham, University of British Columbia; b.dunham@stat.ubc.ca; 
    Wesley Burr, Trent University; wesleyburr@trentu.ca; 
    Tiffany Timbers, University of British Columbia; tiffany.timbers@stat.ubc.ca;
    Sukhjit Sehra, Wilfrid Laurier University; ssehra@wlu.ca; 
    Sunny Wang, Wilfrid Laurier University; xwang@wlu.ca
    Date: Sunday, June 6, 2021
    Time: 13:00 - 16:30 (EDT)
  • Survey Methods Workshop
    Title: Introduction to Big Data and Machine Learning for Survey Researchers
    Speaker: Trent Buskirk, Bowling Green State University; buskirk@bgsu.edu
    Date: Saturday, June 12, 2021
    Time: 13:00 - 17:00 (EDT)