SECS News & Events

Full details are available here: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/science/about-the-faculty/department-of-statistics/ihaka-lecture-series.html#2026-series   Lecture 1: Thursday 23 July Trustworthy data visualisation Kieran Healy Professor of Sociology, Duke University, U.S.A.   Lecture 2: Thursday 30 July 6pm When creativity meets code Dr Nicola Rennie Data visualisation specialist, Office for National Statistics, United Kingdom   Lecture 3: Thursday 6 August 6pm Spotting the weird ones Professor Rob J Hyndman Monash University, Australia   Abstracts and links are at https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/science/about-the-faculty/department-of-statistics/ihaka-lecture-series.html#2026-series

The Pacific Dataviz Challenge is a competition for all—of any age, background or skillset—that encourages storytelling, design, innovation and technical skill in the visualisation of Pacific data. Participants, individually or as a team, are invited to create data visualisations that highlight important issues or opportunities facing the Pacific region. Your submission could be an infographic, animation, dashboard, web app, poster, ...

The April 2026 issue of our newsletter is available here.

We are pleased to invite applications for the second round of the NZSA Tidy International Travel Scholarship, specifically designed to support Student and Early Career Statisticians (SECS) in attending international conferences related to statistics and/or data science, including those held in Australia.   Scholarship Details: Value: $2,500 Number: One scholarship per year   Eligibility Criteria: You must be a current member of ...

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 NZSA Award recipients are Claire Cameron (Campbell Award), Thomas Yee (Littlejohn Research Award), Jason Wen (Worsley Early Career Research Award) and Harold Henderson (Jean Thompson Award).

  2025 best student presentation winners (from left to right): Sarah Croft, Tarin Eccleston, Lisa Chen (Harmonic Analytics), John Haywood (NZSA President), Siwei Zhai, Ruiting Mao and Alec van Helsdingen.       The NZSA congratulates the winners of the 2025 NZSA Best Student Presentations. Harmonic Analytics generously sponsored these prizes at the 2025 NZSA Conference.        

The September 2025 issue of our newsletter is available here.

The Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka University of Otago is very pleased to be hosting the 2025 NZSA Conference from 8-10 December. Registration is now open at: https://www.otago.ac.nz/maths-and-stats/news/2025-nzsa-conference. The Chair of the Organising Committee is Conor Kresin: conor.kresin@otago.ac.nz.

Full details are here: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/science/about-the-faculty/department-of-statistics/ihaka-lecture-series.html#2025-series The first law of geography is that everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things. This year’s Ihaka Lectures are about geographic data – facts on maps. Drawing maps and analysing them used to require specialised resources. Modern computing has made maps accessible as a ...

The NZSA Awards Committee is now accepting nominations for the Association’s awards for 2025.  The list of awards is: Campbell Award, recognising sustained contribution to the promotion and development of statistics. Jean Thompson Award, recognising excellence in the application of statistics in New Zealand industry. Littlejohn Research Award, recognising excellence in research, based on publications during the five calendar ...