20 Weaving Ideas Together: Training the Next Generation of Collaborative Statisticians and Data Scientists

Oregon Convention Center 

Collaborative academic statisticians are often involved in many different aspects of research and training, and are often interested in a variety of areas. This poster will show an evolving cycle of ideas, starting with how an idea for developing videos to help train and mentor the next generation of applied statisticians came to fruition and led to the development of a short course and several new projects and collaborations. That work, along with new statistical consulting and collaboration literature led to a restructuring of the Statistical Practice class at NC State and new ideas being incorporated into the joint data science consulting and collaboration program run by the NC State Libraries and Data Science Academy. The energy around that cooperative program has led to a workshop, more additions to the body of statistical consulting literature, and a grant-funded book writing project. While it is often clear how methodological developments lead to further research, that path in the collaboration and consulting space may be much less clear. This poster will illuminate one path for building a research program in this space.