Ideas for World Statistics Day

World Statistics Day is 2010 October 20. If you work with data or you should, then you are a statistician and this is a day for you.

Try the Monty Hall problem on your mother.
Start reading Bad Science. I mean the book, but here’s the blog.
Take a step towards breaking your spreadsheet addiction by starting to use R.
Watch Hans Rosling’s TED talk on the best stats you’ve ever seen
Think about what new data would be informative for something that you are doing.
Think about how data that you are using may be misleading.
Conceive of a more useful graphic for some data that you have.
Take advantage of and/or support http://www.getstats.org.uk/, the newly launched outreach project of the Royal Statistical Society.
Start reading Malcolm Gladwell’s What the Dog Saw. Several of the pieces are statistics lessons in disguise.
Modernize your data analysis by learning the statistical bootstrap and related methods. If you already know it, then teach it to someone else.
Start to read Obliquity by John Kay to rein in your belief in models and upgrade your appreciation of experimentation.
Get around to deriving the Uniformly Most Powerful Unbiased test for that problem that you’ve been putting off.

More ideas are welcome.

Update: The official United Nations site for World Statistics Day is http://unstats.un.org/unsd/wsd/Default.aspx

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