Hi
Krishnan and anyone else who is interested! I had the BEST
time at my one day (Aug 10) at the Joint Statistical
Meetings. JSM includes many organizations including the
American Statistical Association (ASA). 6000 statisticians
at the Seattle Convention Center. It is like TRB for
statisticians.
J
My
presentation was about using aggregate cellphone data and
the test of the RMove Smartphone app in Indiana. Thank you
to everyone (Sumit Bindra, Leta Huntsinger, Xian-Biao Hu,
Christina Barrone and Elizabeth Greene ) whose information I
used in my presentation, which was mostly drawn from the TRB
Planning Applications conference and the American Planning
Association conference! I had hoped to talk about the
NCHRP 08-95 project on cell phone data, but that project is
running 1 year behind.
CB
staff (Amy O’Hara and Alison Fields) did a presentation
about using tax records to examine “mobility.” I missed
the presentation because it was first thing on Monday
morning, but Amy will send me a copy of the presentation.
Their research is not yet final.
The
session (session 158) on interactive graphics with R was
very fun but I could not stay the entire time. Here are
some of the R library names: (animint) (plotly) (ggplotly)
and (gridSVG). One key person with R code and involved
with ASA is Carson Sievert from Iowa State. WOW! This
is where I think we need to be going with big data mining
and analysis.
Transportation
Statistics Interest Group (TSIG). (This is an equivalent of
a TRB Task Force before it becomes a full committee). TSIG
will continue as an interest group and may promote up to a
“section” in the future. Alan Karr from RTI is the current
chair. They discussed putting together 2 sessions for next
year’s JSM. Feng Guo VA Tech will lead one effort, and Pat
Hu will work on another (administrative records). Please
contact them feng.guo@vt.edu
patricia.hu@dot.gov
if you are interested in being a speaker.
I
would have liked to attend these, but since I only had
one-day registration, did not.
Session
516 on Wed. was “utilizing Administrative Records and
Adaptive Design in the 2020 Census”.
Session
541 on Wed – Cynthia Bland Augustine from RTI (member of TRB
ABJ40) discussed “GeoSampling Weights and Design Effects”
Session
593 on Wed – was on using the Census Bureau’s Planning
Database. (see the attachment of the people who
presented). I think this is a potential resource for
assisting in regional and statewide surveys to better
estimate low response and plan, in advance, for different
recruitment or sampling design.
Elaine
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Elaine & (others who attended)
Anything interesting from the JSM that pertains to
transportation? Look forward to hearing from take on how it
went & what we should look to in terms of data, methods,
etc.
Krishnan