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What Does a Statistician Do? The View from a Different Sort of Bio-Statistician

Jay Jones is Lead Statistician at Weyerhaeuser Company, where he has worked for the last 15 years as a statistician, and previously for 4 years as an engineer. MS in statistics from the University of Washington and MS in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech.鈥淭he difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory.鈥� A solid grounding in theory and methods is critical to success as a professional statistician. But so are many other skills 鈥� from listening and communication to version control and database management 鈥� not to mention interpreting results when textbook assumptions don鈥檛 apply. As the demand for statisticians & data scientists grows, so do the range of applications that we work on and the skills demanded of us. I will highlight some recent projects across a range of disciplines 鈥� hydrology, forestry, manufacturing, and wildlife science 鈥� to touch on the skills and methods used to address an array of questions, and then take a deeper dive into the study of species of concern in the Pacific Northwest.