The 2011 data Expo of the American Statistical Association

Abstract

Since 1983, the Sections on Statistical Computing and Graphics of the American Statistical Association has held a Data Exposition competition as part of the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM). These competitions presented participants with a data set and the challenge to produce a comprehensive analysis of the data. Entries were in poster form, with an emphasis on graphical presentation of results. Early Data Expos were held roughly every 2 years, but there was a hiatus after 1997. At the 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) conference in Seattle, the Data Expo competition was revived (Murrell 2010), with help from the Section on Statistics and the Environment, using a data set of atmospheric measurements from NASA. Since then there have been competitions every two years again. A full list of competitions, data and winners can be found at http://stat-computing.org/~dataexpo/. In 2011 the focus was on data made available in association with the BP oil spill of 2010. Twelve en ...