About a year ago, right after the 2012 presidential election, I sat down to write my first Amstat News column. Statistics was in the news almost daily, owing to the spot-on predictions of the election outcome by Nate Silver and others. As president-elect, I had formulated three presidential initiatives with the help of the ASA Board of Directors, which were already under way. The International Year of Statistics was almost upon us. My calendar for 2013 was packed with trips-the first in early January to speak at an International Year kick-off event in Belgium. If one was lucky enough to be elected ASA president, being elected 2013 president was luckier still-the opportunities presented by the International Year to advocate for our discipline and association were unprecedented.
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