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1995 Data Analysis Exposition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robin Lock)
Wed Feb 1 14:26:47 1995
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 95 14:00:05 EST
From: Robin Lock <RLOCK@VM.STLAWU.EDU>
To: s-news@utstat.toronto.edu
Headnotes:
1. Apologies if this duplicates an announcement you've seen on
another list.
2. There is a bit of flexibility in the Feb. 1 deadline below. If you
are interested in participating, contact Robin Lock at rlock@vm.stlawu.edu
Looking for a good excuse to demonstrate the graphical capabilities
of your favorite software? ...
ANNOUNCING
ASA Statistical Graphics Section's
1995 DATA ANALYSIS EXPOSITION
"What's What Among American Colleges and Universities?"
WHAT'S A DATA ANALYSIS EXPOSITION?
Individuals and groups analyze a common dataset and present their
results in a poster session at the summer Joint Statistical Meetings
(Orlando, Florida in 1995). The purpose is to demonstrate techniques,
especially graphical, for analyzing data and displaying the results of
an analysis.
WHAT'S THE DATASET FOR THIS YEAR?
Data for the 1995 Data Analysis Exposition are drawn from two sources:
... 1995 U.S. News & World Report's Guide to America's Best Colleges
... Amer. Assoc. of Univ. Professors (AAUP) 1994 Faculty Salary Survey
The U.S. News data contains information on tuition, room & board costs,
SAT or ACT scores, application/acceptance rates, graduation rate,
student/faculty ratio, spending per student, and a number of other
variables for 1300+ schools. The AAUP data includes average salary,
overall compensation, and number of faculty broken down by full,
associate, and assistant professor ranks.
HOW CAN I GET THE DATA?
Data are available electronically from Statlib and the JSE data
archives. See below for more details on how to acquire the data.
HOW DO I PARTICIPATE IN THE EXPOSITION?
The 1995 Data Analysis Exposition will take place as a 2-hour poster
session during the Joint Statistical Meetings in Orlando, Florida
during August 13th - 17th.
IMPORTANT: Abstracts for participants in the Data Analysis Exposition
are due on the standard ASA abstract form by February 1st, 1995. See
below for more details on submitting an abstract.
Data Analysis Expositions are sponsored every two years by the
Statistical Graphics Section of the American Statistical Association.
Participants in previous Expositions have found them to be lots of fun
and quite rewarding. Comparing how various participants attack the
same data is both interesting and educational, paticularly when youve
spent some time with the data yourself. Past sessions have looked at
data on baseball player salaries, breakfast cereals, ratings of cities,
automobiles, infectious diseases, and Alaskan King crabs.
MORE QUESTIONS?
For additional information on the 1995 Data Analysis Exposition contact
Robin Lock (e-mail, surface mail, phone, or fax given below).
Special thanks for providing data for the 1995 Exposition to Robert
Morse, Director of Research for America's Best Colleges at U.S. News &
World Report and Maryse Eymonerie, Consultant to AAUP.
TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT:
Members of ASA should find an abstract form in recent issues of Amstat
News. Forms can also be requested from ASA, 1429 Duke St. Alexandria,
VA 22314. Electronic versions of the abstract form can be requested by
sending an e-mail message to MEETINGS@ASA.MHS.COMPUSERVE.COM
The abstract submission process also includes registering for the meetings.
When filling out the abstract form, be sure to check the box indicating
the paper is for the "Stat. Graphics Poster Contributed" session. These
papers are also eligible for inclusion in the Statistical Graphics
Section's Proceedings.
SPECIAL THIS YEAR: Submissions to the 1995 Data Analysis Exposition
will NOT count against the ASA limit of one contributed paper per
participant at the meetings. Thus you may do a regular contributed or
invited session AND still participate in the Exposition.
REMEMBER: Abstracts are due by February 1, 1995 in order to reserve a
spot in the session. Your abstract can be quite general since the bulk
of your analysis will most likely be done after the abstract deadline.
Your initial abstract can be fairly general since you may do the bulk
of the analysis after the February 1st deadline.
TO OBTAIN THE DATA
Data are available electronically from Statlib and the Journal of
Statistics Education (JSE) dataset archives. At each location, a file
contains more detailed information on how to download a copy of the
data and documentation.
To get the information file from Statlib, send a single line message:
send readme from colleges
to the address statlib@lib.stat.cmu.edu
You may also access the Statlib dataset archive by FTP, Gopher, or WWW.
For example the WWW URL is http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/colleges/
To get the information file from JSE, send a single line message
send jse/data/colleges.doc
to the address archive@jse.stat.ncsu.edu
JSE data archives are also available by FTP, Gopher, Telnet, and WWW.
If you have no access to electronic sources, please contact Robin Lock
at the address given below.
Robin Lock e-mail: rlock@vm.stlawu.edu
Mathematics Dept phone : (315) 379-5960
St. Lawrence University fax : (315) 379-5804
Canton, NY 13617
Please feel free to pass this annoncement on to other interested
individuals or groups.
