Yaxi Huang, who is originally from China, worked as a nurse for six years before moving to the U.S. When she arrived, she wanted a career change, and she zeroed in on a career as a statistician in the ...

Vast amounts of data are generated every day. Statistics transforms data into meaningful information. People who practice the science of learning from data are called statisticians. Statisticians ...

University of Chicago Prof. Rina Foygel Barber, a statistician known for her work in quantifying uncertainty, has been awarded a 2023 MacArthur Fellowship. Given each year by the John D. and Catherine ...

A view of the North Lawn of the White House on Sept. 10, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) The White House has a new chief statistician following Mark Calabria’s exit ...

The federal statistical system is facing “unprecedented strain, uncertainty and transformation” in the face of staffing losses, funding pressures and threats to statistical integrity, according to a ...

Increasingly government leaders worldwide are following suit by removing the heads of their country’s statistical offices who report unwelcome, inconvenient data on levels and trends truthfully. The ...

Statistics influence nearly everything. That is, the information and context derived from statistical analysis help to shape important decisions that have local, national, and global impacts. For ...