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Every year, the great migration sees hundreds of thousands of wildebeest, gazelles, zebras and antelopes migrate from the Serengeti plains in Tanzania to the Maasai Mara in Kenya, in search of water and juicy grass. But rising temperatures and unpredictable weather are changing this epic animal journey dramatically. It's the same for great white sharks, which are being spotted in areas where they'd never normally live.Tanzanian safari guide Neema Amos takes us into the Serengeti to explain why the wildebeest migration is so important. And shark expert Trisha Atwood reveals how these changes affect not just the animals, but our fight against climate change itself.Presenter Sophie Eastaugh is joined by: Neema Amos, Safari Guide in Tanzania Trisha Atwood, Associate Professor of Watershed Sciences at Utah State University Joseph Ogutu, Senior Statistician at University of HohenheimEmail us at theclimatequestion@bbc.comProducers: Sophie Eastaugh and Octavia Woodward Editors: Graihagh Jackson and Tom Bigwood Series Producer: Simon Watts Sound design and mixing: Tom Brignell Production Coordinator: Brenda BrownArchive from the Sir David Attenborough programme, ‘Wildebeest: The Super Herd', BBC Two, 2008This programme was first broadcast in March 2024

Sports generate a lot of data among them individual player metrics, team performance data, and specific game statistics. And there are a lot of tools to crunch all those numbers. Learning to use them can be a challenge and is the focus of many sport analytics classes offered in the United States. We hear about one professor's approach to teaching sports stats in this episode of Stats and Stories, where we explore the statistics behind the stories with guest Mark Glickman. Glickman is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Senior Lecturer on Statistics in the Harvard University Department of Statistics, and Senior Statistician at the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research. His research interests are primarily in the areas of statistical models for rating competitors in games and sports, and in statistical methods applied to problems in health services research. He served as an elected member of the American Statistical Association's Board of Directors as representative of the Council of Sections Governing Board from 2019 to 2021.

Are our teachers getting the best education, before getting in front of the classroom? A new report by the think tank The New Zealand Initiative says the current university model of teacher education has major flaws. These include an insufficient focus on the science of learning; too little practical classroom experience for trainee teachers; inconsistent mentoring of trainees and poor preparation of primary teachers to teach across the curriculum, especially in mathematics and science. Kathryn speaks with report co-author Michael Johnston, former Victoria University Associate Dean, former Senior Statistician at the Qualifications Authority, now Senior Research Fellow at the New Zealand Initiative

Save Our Schools Reporthttps://www.nzinitiative.org.nz/reports-and-media/reports/save-our-schools-solutions-for-new-zealands-education-crisis/document/797Dr Michael Johnston is a Senior Fellow at the New Zealand Initiative. He leads the workstream on education.Prior to his time at the Initiative, Dr Johnston held academic positions at Victoria University of Wellington from 2011-2022. From 2020 until 2022 he was the Associate Dean (Academic) in the University's Faculty of Education.Prior to his time at Victoria, Dr Johnston was the Senior Statistician at the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, a position he held for 6 years. Before that, he was a lecturer in psychology at the University Melbourne and a Research Fellow at Latrobe University.Dr Johnston holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Melbourne.https://www.nzinitiative.org.nz/about-us/our-people/dr-michael-johnston/

John Dunne is a Senior Statistician with the CSO

Cormac Halpin, Senior Statistician with the Central Statistics Office, speaks to us about the latest figures from Census 2022

Declan Smuth, Senior Statistician with CSO on the information they've gathered about those who've arrived here since Feb

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) has released Information and Communications Technology: Value Chain 2019. Commenting on the publication, Michael Connolly, Senior Statistician said: “This cross-cutting analysis of the ICT sector draws on areas across the CSO such as Census, Business, Labour Market and Macro-Economic data to allow an in-depth review of the ICT value chain in Ireland to be produced. Looking at the contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by firms in this ICT value chain analysis, released today, the dominance of foreign-owned multinational corporations (MNEs) is evident. The same story emerges from a review of capital investment in the sector, where Intellectual Property (IP) assets owned by these MNEs also predominates. But critically, when we consider the human capital contribution in the value chain, we see that almost half of the highly educated workforce are employed by Irish firms. These domestic firms are active in export markets with almost half of their IT production being exported (€1.9bn). Interestingly, this value chain analysis also presents evidence of knowledge sharing or spill-overs of expertise between large MNEs and domestic firms with nearly 9,000 workers (10% of ICT employment) changing jobs in 2019 but remaining in the ICT sector. Workers in this sector have the highest average annual earnings in the country. It generates more wages paid in Irish households than in labour-intensive areas such as hospitality or construction. The ICT sector has a highly educated workforce: almost two-thirds had a college degree or higher. The wage levels may also be explained by the fact that it is also a very productive sector: the value-added per hour worked is exceptionally high. However, the sector does have a significant gender imbalance: Only 32% of workers in the ICT sector are female: among Telecommunication Engineers this falls to a low of just 5% women. While large foreign multinationals dominate the job market, domestic companies employed almost half (40,746) of those (90,766) employed in the sector.” Looking at the importance of capital, Michael Connolly, Senior Statistician, further commented: “The productivity analysis in this publication highlights the importance of capital in explaining the extraordinary performance of this sector. Global ICT brands have moved operations to Ireland that are serving multiple countries. With these come the valuable patents and intellectual property underlying their highly profitable services. This productivity performance is driven by the large capital assets that foreign-owned MNEs hold in Ireland. However, another perspective on productivity is presented where the impact of globalisation can be clearly seen. The results by firm size show the large foreign-owned MNEs are 10 times more productive than the small and medium-sized Irish firms, which results in a productivity profile for the domestic companies that is more comparable with European norms. The report presents some of the staggering figures for the global corporations here: imports and exports that amount to a quarter of the GDP for the country as a whole. The large foreign multinational ICT companies are making large profits here, most of which flow out to their owners, but they paid almost €4bn in taxes in 2019 before their profits flowed out. As well as their wages paid, they also show some ‘spillover' of expertise with domestic firms. Analysis also shows that around 20% of people who change jobs in the ICT sector go between the foreign multinationals and domestic enterprises.” More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help...

As on old proverb states - give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime - Valerie Bizier, Senior Statistician at FAO, Juliana Meneses, Sustainability Manager at Grupo Nutresa, and Maria Clara Piedrahita, Nutresa Foundation’s Executive Director, discuss the steps that need to be taken to achieve SDG 2: Zero Hunger, stressing the importance of self-sufficiency and securing the world’s food systems from the ground up, which means working together with people producing food to help ensure their quality of life, sustainability, and resilience.

As on old proverb states - give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime - Valerie Bizier, Senior Statistician at FAO, Juliana Meneses, Sustainability Manager at Grupo Nutresa, and Maria Clara Piedrahita, Nutresa Foundation's Executive Director, discuss the steps that need to be taken to achieve SDG 2: Zero Hunger, stressing the importance of self-sufficiency and securing the world's food systems from the ground up, which means working together with people producing food to help ensure their quality of life, sustainability, and resilience.

Jaryd and Erik are joined by Eric Mackay, a Senior Statistician at Cytel. Eric has an academic background in econometrics and statistics, as well as extensive professional expertise in applied biostatistical analysis. We cover a variety of topics including why Eric left the economics profession, the difficulty of translating statistical concepts into practical terms, and whether international travel is overrated. Note: this episode contains the use of technical jargon which some listeners may find boring.

The struggle to get the most updated information on the spread of COVID-19 in a community has been crucial for local and national government decision-making. Here's the unlikely source of data for a Jackson County project that hopes to increase the speed of information. COVID-19 testing delays and asymptomatic carriers have contributed to a slower understanding of how many people in a community have the virus. "Our goal here is to really give public health officials an early warning for what's happening in the community." That's Aparna Keshaviah. She's a Senior Statistician at Mathematica. The a research analytics firm just released a study measuring the COVID-19 virus in Jackson County's wastewater . The study found that testing the wastewater could identify an increase in the spread of COVID-19 about 9 days before the positive tests were reported to the local health department. "Wastewater testing has really been an academic enterprise. It hasn't been used as an operational strategy

This episode continues our celebration of Math and Statistics Awareness Month. David Marker, Senior Statistician and Associate Director at Westat, discusses combining his interests in history and math and how to get everyone interested in math and statistics. Follow the Festival on Twitter & Instagram at @mdstemfest, on Facebook @marylandstemfestival and on our website www.marylandstemfestival.org. Follow Westat at https://www.westat.com/

Mark Glickman, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, is Senior Lecturer on Statistics at Harvard University, and Senior Statistician at the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, a VA Center of Innovation.  He is well-known for his work in games and sports, having created the Glicko and Glicko-2 rating systems that are widely used in online gaming.

Mark Glickman, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, is Senior Lecturer on Statistics at Harvard University, and Senior Statistician at the Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, a VA Center of Innovation.  He is well-known for his work in games and sports, having created the Glicko and Glicko-2 rating systems that are widely used in online gaming.  Mark co-organizes the biannual New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports, has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, and has been the chair of the US Chess Ratings Committee since 1992.  More recently, Mark has embarked on projects in music analytics.  His work on authorship attribution of Lennon-McCartney songs has received widespread media coverage.

Davina P. Durgana (@DavinaDurgana) is Assistant Professor and Senior Practitioner Faculty at SIT Graduate Institute , human rights statistician who has developed models to assess risk and vulnerability to modern slavery. She is a Report Co-Author and Senior Statistician on the Walk Free Foundation's Global Slavery Index . She is the 2016 Recipient of the American Statistical Association's Harry V. Roberts Statistical Advocate of the Year Award and a Forbes Top 30 Under 30 in Science for 2017 for her work on statistical modeling, human security theory, and human trafficking. She was a contributing author to the 2017 Chance issue (Chance Volume 30) on modern slavery

Welcome back to the show! This week, I chat with Sarah Kalicin, Senior Statistician at Intel about how to get an organization to leverage their data to improve their work, analysis, and communication. We talk about all things organizational this... The post Episode #76: Sarah Kalicin appeared first on PolicyViz.

Welcome back to the show! This week, I chat with Sarah Kalicin, Senior Statistician at Intel about how to get an organization to leverage their data to improve their work, analysis, and communication. We talk about all things organizational this... The post Episode #76: Sarah Kalicin appeared first on PolicyViz.