Themes
Data Quality and Statistical Inference [12] Disclosure Avoidance [10] Large Language Models [8] Marketing and Public Outreach [11] Measurement of Race & Ethnicity [5, 6]	Probability Sampling [7] Record Linkage [3] Synthetic Social Habitats [1, 2] Time Series [4] Usability / Human Computer Interaction [9]
*All visits during 2024 were virtual

May

[1] Madhav Marathe / University of Virginia, Biocomplexity Institute (May 29, 30)

“Synthetic Social Habitats for Policy and Decision Making"

Hosts: Center for Optimization & Data Science (Park, Mathur, Damineni), Center for Enterprise Dissemination (Rodriguez)

 

[2] Samarth Swarup / University of Virginia, Biocomplexity Institute (May 29, 30)

“Synthetic Social Habitats for Policy and Decision Making"

Hosts: Center for Optimization & Data Science (Park, Mathur, Damineni), Center for Enterprise Dissemination (Rodriguez)

 

June

[3] Martin Slawski / George Mason University (June 11, 13, 18)

“Some Recent Advances and Open Problems in Post-Linkage Data Analysis”;

“An Introduction to R package “pldamixture” for Post-Linkage Data Analysis”

Hosts: Center for Statistical Research & Methodology (Ben-David, Roy)

 

[4] Yao Zheng / University of Connecticut (June 12)

“New Advances in High-Dimensional Time Series Modeling”

Hosts: Research & Methodology Directorate (McElroy, Bell), Center for Statistical Research & Methodology (Livsey, Pang)

 

[5] Kimberly Huyser / The University of British Columbia (June 18)

“Honoring Indigenous Lives and Life Experiences in Data”

Hosts: Economic Statistical Methods Division (Steinberg)

 

[6] Desi Small-Rodriguez / University of California, Los Angeles (June 18)

“Honoring Indigenous Lives and Life Experiences in Data”

Hosts: Economic Statistical Methods Division (Steinberg)

 

[7] Bikas Sinha / Indian Statistical Institute (Retired Prof. of Statistics) (June 20)

“Understanding Features of Probability Proportional to Size Sampling Designs (both with and without replacement) and Properties of Unbiased Estimators of a Population Mean”

Hosts: Center for Statistical Research & Methodology (Wright, Engmark)

 

[8] Trent Buskirk / Old Dominion University (June 25)

“Can we Count on ChatBots at the Census? Exploring the Possibility and Implausibility of Large Language Models in Survey Science”

Hosts: Center For Behavioral Science Methods (Nelson, Beatty)

 

July

[9] Soussan Djamasbi / Worcester Polytechnic Institute (July 10)

“Driving Innovation through User Experience Research”

Hosts: Center For Behavioral Science Methods (Wang, Nichols)

 

[10] Ashwin Machanavajjhala / Tumult Labs (July 16)

“Privately Tabulating Skewed Magnitude Variables with Per Record Differential Privacy”

Hosts: Center for Enterprise Dissemination (Sienkiewicz), Population Division (Krause), Economic Statistical Methods Division (Caruso)

 

[11] Shunyuan Zhang / Harvard University (July 17)

“Ambiguity in Multi-modal Digital Ads”

Hosts: Center For Behavioral Science Methods (Wang, Ellis, Larsen)

 

[12] Dennis K.J. Lin / Purdue University (July 18)

“Artificial Intelligence, Biological Intelligence, Statistical Intelligence”

Hosts: Center For Behavioral Science Methods (Wang), Center for Statistical Research & Methodology (Mathew)