Today is World Statistics Day as declared by the United Nations.  There are events all over the world including a mourning for the Canadian census.  The official US event (pdf) is in Washington, DC but a bunch of New Yorkers are celebrating at the bit.ly hack.a.bit.

Drew Conway has some ideas how to celebrate.

Ban Ki-Moon’s (UN Secretary General) message(pdf) on World Statistics Day:

On this first World Statistics Day I encourage the international community to work with the United Nations to enable all countries to meet their statistical needs.
 

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Jared Lander is the Chief Data Scientist of Lander Analytics a New York data science firm, Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, Organizer of the New York Open Statistical Programming meetup and the New York and Washington DC R Conferences and author of R for Everyone.