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Interviews of Notable Statistics and Data Science

Educators

Nicholas Horton

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Science Educators, Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 32:1, 1-2, DOI:
10.1080/26939169.2024.2293393

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EDITORIAL

Interviews of Notable Statistics and Data Science Educators

The Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education (JSDSE) Table 1. Statistics and data science educator interviews published in the Journal of
Statistics and Data Science Education.
has regularly published interviews with notable statistics and
data science educators. The practice began in our inaugural Name Year Collection
issue, where David Moore interviewed Frederick Mosteller Frederick Mosteller 1993 1
(Moore 1993). Jackie Dietz 2011 1
The goals of the interviews are to provide a glimpse into the Joan Garfield 2011 1
Roxy Peck 2012 1
mindset of individuals who have played important roles in the Dick Scheaffer 2012 1
development of statistics and data science education, to give a Michelle Everson 2012 1
sense for what went on during key times in that development, Mike Shaughnessy 2013 1
David Moore 2013 1
and to allow for consideration of future directions that statistics Christine Franklin 2013 1
and data science education and the discipline more broadly Ron Wasserstein 2014 1
might take. They provide a history which is not always well Jessica Utts 2014 1
Josh Tabor 2014 1
documented and often include personal anecdotes that help to George Cobb 2015 1
humanize the field. Ann Watkins 2015 1
Since 2011, Allan Rossman has been crafting these inter- Deborah Nolan 2015 1
Robert W. Hayden 2016 1
views (Rossman 2011). Over the past 13 years he has profiled Soma Roy 2016 1
a wide-ranging set of 29 individuals, including ASA Presidents, Richard De Veaux 2016 1
JSE/JSDSE editors, CAUSE Lifetime Achievement recipients, Dennis Pearl 2017 1
Danny Kaplan 2017 1
Waller Award winners, two-year college faculty, K-12 teachers, Brian Kotz 2018 1
and others who have made important contributions to data James J. Cochran 2018 1
science and statistics education. Nicholas J. Horton 2018 1
Jeff Witmer 2019 2
Taylor & Francis has recently made the complete set of Gail Burrill 2019 2
interviews, all of which are open access, more easily accessible by Larry Lesser 2020 2
having centralized lists (Interviews with Statistics and Data Sci- Prince Afriyie 2020 2
Amy Hogan 2021 2
ence Educators (1993-2018) 2023; Interviews with Statistics and Felicia Simpson 2022 2
Data Science Educators (2019-) 2023). A collection of interviews Bob delMas 2022 2
from 1993 to 2018 can be found at https://www.tandfonline.
com/journals/ujse20/collections/Interviews-with-Educators-1.
Interviews from 2019 to the present can be found at https:// role of eugenics in the development of the field, and argues that
www.tandfonline.com/journals/ujse20/collections/Interviews- we must confront our history in order to move forward. Three
with-Educators-2. Table 1 provides a list of interviewees, the year examples of famous statisticians and their work on eugenics
in which their interview was published, and which collection ground the discussion, with guidance about how to address the
houses the interview. troubling history in the classroom.
I’m greatly appreciative of the work that Allan has invested Other papers published in the issue explore a number of
over the years to carry out the interviews. I’ve gained a lot timely topics including:
of wisdom and inspiration from them. I hope that the two
new collections of interviews will help readers recognize what • training interdisciplinary data science collaborators,
dedicated, wise, humble, often quite humorous, and generally • team-teaching to prepare analytics-enabled professionals,
terrific people have shaped our field. • a new approach to teaching statistical inference,
The current issue of the Journal of Statistics and Data Science • how students apply statistics terms to people,
Education features ten papers on a variety of topics. Kennedy- • factors related to student success in first-year statistics
Shaffer (2023) recounts the difficult past of statistics, notably the courses

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• confidence disparities and pre-course coding, Nicholas Horton https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3332-4311
• an application to create, adjust, and check suitability of
datasets, and
• an exploration of how missing data is handled in disserta- References
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Disclosure Statement Rossman, A. (2011), “Introduction to Interviews with
Statistics Educators,” Journal of Statistics Education, 19, 1–2.
The author has no conflicts of interest to declare. DOI:10.1080/10691898.2011.11889619