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We're pleased to support this new report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change on Building Britain’s National Data Library   ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ePBJymkQ   There are three areas in particular that align with our priorities at the Royal Statistical Society: 🔷 Data sharing and data linkage: the report sets out challenges here and proposes interesting ways forward – the emphasis on unlocking the value of existing data is an important first step and it proposes an ambitious target for when this might be achieved. Read our briefing note on data sharing - https://lnkd.in/ePgvxxNF 🔷 Public statistics: the approach outline strongly aligns with the recommendations of our report on the public statistics agenda, including recognising the value of a user engagement programme. Read our report - https://lnkd.in/efCvend9 🔷 Official statistics system: the report recognises the important role to be played by the official statistics system, including the role of the integrated data system as a building block for the National Data Library and the National Statistician's leadership role.

Statistics are central to the functioning of AI, with some even calling AI 'applied statistics', but is this something the people growing up with these technologies are aware of? The 2025/26 William Guy Lecturers will be inspiring children and young people about Statistics and AI by giving short online and in-person talks to a specific age group. If that sounds like something you could excel at, apply to our prestigious lectureship 👉https://ow.ly/C7WZ50V2U2U

Today the Office for National Statistics has published the latest Household Costs Indices figures, which the Royal Statistical Society has been calling on policymakers to take note of for some time due to the more comprehensive picture they give us of inflation.     These latest figures show that nearly all household groups continue to experience higher inflation than CPI, with some seeing particularly high costs - private renters faring the worst due to last year’s rise in rents.     As inflation climbs back up again, we hope this more granular data will help guide policymaking given the light it sheds on people’s different experiences of rising costs.      Read our briefing note: https://lnkd.in/ehiim-2W

RSSNI SEMINAR SERIES We are pleased to announce that Dr Anthony Webster, postdoctoral researcher from the Statistics Department University of Oxford, will be our next #RSSNI Seminar Series speaker. This will be a hybrid event and will take place in room 02/009 in the Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen's University Belfast. We look forward to seeing you there to listen to Dr. Anthony Webster speak on 'Multistage models of multimorbidity, cancer, and neurodegenerative disease'. To book your place or for full details of the event and speaker's abstract see: https://lnkd.in/ek-VzzC3 Map: https://lnkd.in/ebmv_2KQ MS Teams: Link available at https://lnkd.in/ewrnnqq3 As always, this event is open to the public and chaired by Prof Gilbert MacKenzie (RSSNI Local Group Chair) #RSSNI #Statistics, Royal Statistical Society

We're accepting entries for this year's Trustworthiness, Quality and Value Award 🏆 In partnership with Office for Statistics Regulation & Civil Service World If you're an organisation that is going above & beyond in voluntarily applying the Code of Practice to your work then apply by 6 May https://lnkd.in/exZAhrT5

Our next Discussion Meeting will discuss our journal paper on the statistical aspects of the Covid-19 response. Chaired by our president John Aston, the paper focuses among other topics, on the impact of statistically questionable approaches on policy, the presentation of stats on Covid risk, the risk of response measures and some of the issues around the presentation of life-loss data. Download the pre-print and sign up to attend either in-person (London) or online https://ow.ly/9hP250V6XQ6

Researchers and scientists, have you aided public understanding with your contributions to the media? Our best statistical commentary category for this year's Statistical Excellence in Journalism Awards with ESRC: Economic and Social Research Council celebrates just that, here Beccy Shipman discusses ⤵️ Submit your entry by 12 March ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dnrvXaM

The Royal Statistical Society isn’t just for statisticians – we also support data analysts and data scientists. Join today and get involved: https://lnkd.in/eXSmJ7KX

RSSNI SEMINAR SERIES We are very pleased to resume the RSSNI Seminar Series. On Wednesday, February 19th, at 1pm GMT, Jack Moore of the University of Limerick will talk about semi-parametric distributional regression survival models. This will be a hybrid event with Jack in-person in room 02/008 in the Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen's University Belfast. Map: https://lnkd.in/ebmv_2KQ MS Teams: https://lnkd.in/e7e2tnsX). To book your place or for full details of the event and speaker's abstract see: https://lnkd.in/epPCEijA This event will be chaired by Prof Gilbert MacKenzie (Local Group Chair) #RSSNI #Statistics, Royal Statistical Society

Very happy to announce the 2nd RSS/Turing Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning! Registration is open now: https://lnkd.in/dQP43ZKX This workshop will take place at The Alan Turing Institute on 24th of March, 2025 and is organized with the help of Royal Statistical Society Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) Section and The Alan Turing Institute. Main organizers are myself, Francesca Romana Crucinio (University of Turin) and Andrew Duncan (Imperial / Turing). The event will feature the following speakers and topics: Rocco Caprio (Warwick), Maximum marginal likelihood, EM, Gradient flows and a log-Sobolev inequality Paula Cordero Encinar (Imperial), Non-asymptotic Analysis of Diffusion Annealed Langevin Monte Carlo for Generative Modelling Arthur Gretton (UCL/DeepMind), Gradient Flow on the Maximum Mean Discrepancy Anna Korba (ENSAE/CREST), Tempering Strategies for Langevin Dynamics: Advances and Challenges Jonas Latz (University of Manchester), How to beat a Bayesian adversary Sahani Pathiraja (UNSW Sydney), On connections between sequential Bayesian inference and evolutionary dynamics Hope to see you all there!