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7 Nov, 12 tweets, 8 min read
During my leave I’ve really enjoyed reading about the inspiring women trailblazers in statistics who paved the way for us. Here are some of my favourite quotes in chronological order. Please share yours! #WSDS
Florence Nightingale states in her essay Cassandra 👇
🖼 source: Wikimedia commons Quote by Nightingale on women not being able to take occupat
Clara E. Collet writes in her chapter on women's work in Life and Labour of the People of London👇 (freely available to read: public-library.uk/dailyebook/Lif… )
🖼 source: facebook.com/SenateHouseLib… Clara Collet: life to large numbers of married woman... is n
Janet Lane-Claypon pioneered the use of cohort studies and case-control studies & wrote 👇

🖼 source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Lan… General public health measures will only carry us a certain
Frances Wood writes in an article on the increase in the cost of food after war 👇

🖼source: significancemagazine.com/science/563-th…
Enid Charles was a pioneer in the fields of demography and population statistics and wrote 👇 Academic discussion of family allowances is often vitiated b
Gertrude Cox was a pioneer in experimental design and was the first woman elected into the International Statistical Institute in 1949.

🖼source: Wikipedia Main contribution of the statistician is getting the investi
Florence Nightingale David won the first Elizabeth L. Scott Award in 1992 for dismantling barriers for women in Statistics

🖼 source: magazine.amstat.org/blog/2016/03/3…
Stella Cunliffe was the Director of Statistics at the UK Home Office and became the first female president of the @RoyalStatSoc in 1975.

🖼: Causeweb prepare to guide sociologists into more scientifically accep
@RoyalStatSoc Elizabeth Scott or the “woman who used regression to influence the salaries of many” said 👇

🖼: rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…
@RoyalStatSoc Margaret Butler started working as statistician followed by a great career path in the public sector in the earliest days of computers and nuclear energy.

🖼 : semiwiki.com/general/2128-m… we have yet to attain a critical mass i nthe scientif and en
@RoyalStatSoc We’ve come a long way but there’s still work to be done to incorporate diversity into our institutions and resources including Wikipedia. At @statsyss we’re planning to address this with an
event that we’ll be announcing shortly…
#BlackInStats #BlackInData #LatinasInStats Gaps in Wikipedia

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I’m really looking forward to attending this 👇 #Nightingale2020 has been one of the few things worth celebrating this year! Her lessons on sanitation couldn’t be more relevant.
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🧵 time! I’d love to talk about the responsibilities we have as data practitioners. In this ~~information age~~ I think it’s critical we use data, ML, stats, and algorithms fairly, and with an eye toward making the world better for people.
I found this piece on data visualization very striking: medium.com/nightingale/it…
“Knowledge is never subjective.” As the creator of a graph, you hold the narrative power.
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