Inaugural Florence Nightingale Day Inspires Students to Pursue Statistics, Data Science

摘要

The American Statistical Association and Caucus for Women in Statistics (CWS) jointly hosted the first Florence Nightingale Day (FN Day) October 27, 2018, in Athens, Georgia; Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and Columbus, Ohio. Middle- and high-school students gathered to discover the opportunities for careers in statistics and data science, do fun activities with data, and develop connections-the primary goals of the event.