{"id":1517,"date":"2015-08-21T14:58:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T18:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/?page_id=1517"},"modified":"2023-11-09T11:06:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:06:50","slug":"this-is-statistics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/bu-student-chapter-of-the-asa\/this-is-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisisstatistics.org\/\">This is Statistics<\/a> is an American Statistical Association (ASA) campaign to raise awareness of the many interesting careers in statistics, a long established profession that has experienced tremendous growth and expanded importance and interest among students and employers in recent years due to advances in technology, the growth of \u201cBig Data,\u201d and the wider adoption of data-driven decision making in the private and public sectors.<\/p>\n<h2>Why You Need to Study Statistics<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wV0Ks7aS7YI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>This is Statistics: Chandra Erdman<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uss7MXcpHaQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>What is Big Data?<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qqfeUUjAIyQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Life as a Data Scientist at Adobe<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/doySgcGFZnc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>LinkedIn Data Scientist Talks Statistics<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jf2YYTL-wYE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"\/stat\/files\/2015\/07\/ASA_TwoPage_FactSheet_06_12_15_Final.pdf\">Click here for more facts about careers in Statistics <\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ThisIsStats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Click here for the official This Is Statistics Video Library <\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Statistics is an American Statistical Association (ASA) campaign to raise awareness of the many interesting careers in statistics, a long established profession that has experienced tremendous growth and expanded importance and interest among students and employers in recent years due to advances in technology, the growth of \u201cBig Data,\u201d and the wider adoption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10554,"featured_media":2658,"parent":1305,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1517\/revisions\/2631"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/stat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}