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Briana Schumacher
Statistically speaking, when most of us were children, we probably didn’t rush in from an evening of trick-or-treating and, at our mother’s urging, plot our Halloween candy based on type. Then again, most children didn’t have a mom who came to their elementary school class to talk about building jet engines. Briana Schumacher beat those […]
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The statistics bug hit Dr. Fotios Kokkotos in his senior year as an undergraduate at Wright State University. “I was a math major,” he says, “and one elective in statistics did the trick.” Kokkotos fell in love. After earning his Bachelor’s degree, Kokkotos went on to earn his Master’s at Wright State and Ph.D. in […]
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Insights from the Girard School of Business and the School of Science and Engineering There seems no end to the expanding breadth and depth of data. But the promise of big data is only as good as the tools and resources we have to understand and make use of it. As Dr. Andrew Banasiewicz, Director […]