Dr. Tim Hesterberg, senior statistician at Google, has offered to give a talk at Allegheny on the many different types of jobs he's had as a statistician. The talk will be on Thursday 4/2 at 4pm in Carr 223.
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Oil, Earthquakes, and Survival: variety of statistics jobs
ABSTRACT
I'll talk about some statistics jobs I've had:
- systems engineering at Pacific Gas & Electric (before it went bankrupt),
- college teaching and consulting, including tromping around Tennessee on an earthquake project,
- research in Australia,
- statistical software research and development in Seattle,
- training and consulting gigs in Switzerland, UK, and France,
- my quest to change statistical education,
- Google (Google lives on experiment & data!).
This talk is intended for undergraduates in mathematical sciences; one advantage of work as a statistician is the possibility of a great deal of variety.