Warwick Statistics Society

The Warwick Statistics Society are proud to present our new Exec for 2023/24:

President: Neel Shah
Vice President: Miacarla Chapman
Secretary: Dhara Patel
Treasurer: Aaren Patel

Social Secretaries: Ghali Iraqui Housseini & Myriam Soro
Sports Officer: Dylan Patel
Welfare Officer: Alisha Shah

Academic Events Officer: Jy Naha
Careers Officer: Dwija Saraiya
R Course Coordinator: Rikhil Vachhani
Academic Support Officers: Chaneth Wickramapala & Maria-Louiza Van den Bergh

Congratulations, everyone! Can't wait to see what the next year has to offer!

A big shout out to all of the exec for their hard work and dedication in 2022/23, they’ve set a high standard with the amazing competitions, circles, Stats Cafés & more!

Highlights include: the stunning ball with Maths and Physics Societies, out highly demanded pub crawls, Poker night, our football team reaching the league playoffs, Rolf at Stats Café & our freps running a gameshow night!

The society has recovered post-Covid, and has a large and active community! Our new exec are looking forward to the next year and are excited to bring you many more events!

Week 10 Wednesday is our well-being day!!

1:00 - 3:00
Christmas movie (movie tbc) with mug cakes, hot chocolate and other snacks on top of the usual pizza!

3:00-4:00
3rd/4th years have a monitoring point so they can go to that, while we’ll have board games to fill in the time for everyone else!

4:00 - 5:00
Leave for laser tag

5:00 - 7:00
2 games of laser tag + mini golf
max 30 people (google form below to sign up), £11.40 pp, need to bring student id!

Sign up: https://forms.gle/5uK9Ng5mAu7QhDX86

Warwick Statistics Society is partnering with Bright Network! 🎉
Bright Network is a free platform that offers university support, internship trackers, internship experience days and much more!!
Sign up here : https://www.brightnetwork.co.uk/signup/?utm_source=society&utm_campaign=society_52

🎉Warwick Statistics Department turns 50 this year! 🎉

📢 Calling all Statistics alumni, students and staff! Come along and celebrate Warwick Statistics 50th anniversary at a special one day event being held on 17th September.

Featuring talks and presentations as well as campus tours during the day and continued celebrations at an evening reception and dinner, the day promises to be a wonderful way to mark this special occasion.

Book your place today: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/news/stats50celebrations/registrationalumniday/

congrats A level students!!! 🎉Welcome to Warwick! 🥳
the link to our freshers group chat: https://chat.whatsapp.com/DLUGeOlIsmXE3O3ZlL8USj
See you in September!

Congratulations IB Students!! 🎉🍾🥳
We hope you’re excited to join us in September for welcome week!
For now join our freshers group chat to make friends and meet coursemates😄

https://chat.whatsapp.com/DqEVel45sfMFPJJlGLMElN

hope to see lots of you there!! 😁

Re-elections for Welfare and Treasurer taking place now!

*AMENDMENT* Our EC106 Revision Lecture tomorrow will now be running at 3pm in MB0.07. As always, our academic officers will be on hand to go through examples and answer any questions you have about the module. Sorry for the confusion

Worried about first year exams? Why not come to our group revision sessions to get tips, help, and advice from last years cohort. We’ll be running sessions specifically for ST115 and EC106 on the 9th and 13th of May, respectively. Of course you can still, as always, come to stats-cafe on Wednesdays to get help on work for any modules and a slice of free pizza!

Our election results are out!

President: Rikhil Vachhani
Vice President: Hayley Ngan
Secretary: Miacarla Chapman
Treasurer: Grace Tan

Social Secretaries: Natalie Upton & Riccardo Romio
Welfare Officer: Raihanah Lukman
Sports Officer: Carter Setiaputra

Academic Events Officer: Peter Matthews
Careers Officer: Charlotte Quennesson
R Course Coordinator: Neel Shah
Academic Support Officers: Martin Gbúr & Andy Song

Thank you all for coming! We hope you had a great time! Thank you to our amazing Sponsors (Jane Street and SIG) for helping us host this event! ♠️♥️♣️♦️

We are excited to introduce the Annual Warwick Quant Championship – a challenging and fun tournament with a pretty impressive prize bank!

3 JBL speakers are waiting for you to come get them, as are £100, £75 and £25 Amazon vouchers! We will also share top scores with our sponsors – SIG and Jane Street – so winners will get extra advantage when applying to jobs and internships at these firms.

The Quant Championship will be taking place over two days. Rounds 1 and 2 (Mental Maths and Brainteasers) are happening on Tuesday 1st March, and Round 3 (Statistics) is a week after. You don’t need a team: it is an individual competition, so simply come along with a pen, paper and a calculator on day X – and get ready to enter the race!

Rounds 1 and 2:
Date: 01.03.22
Time: 7-8:30PM GMT
Location: OC0.03

Round 3:
Date: 08.03.22
Time: 6-7:30PM GMT
Location: FAB0.03

Not long to go until the showdown of some of Warwick’s best statisticians (and mathematicians)! Let’s see who comes out on top!

Dm if you have any questions! Key Details : Week 9, Wednesday - WSS Welfare Day - Make Mug Cakes, Mindful Netflix, Dealing with exam stress, Laser Tag

Sign up link : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2cRhTm9ZJSBKEiqui6VGuyXrcIhshXAfzXyoU__K5Kj8ewg/viewform

🔥P4DS Course 🔥

Our intermediate-level Python for Data Science course will start out next week, covering the relevant packages and skills necessary for working with data in this versatile language.

The course will be delivered starting next Monday with a blended approach of both in-person and online sessions, with some self-paced elements available, as well as subject-specific mini-projects that enable you to build a portfolio and apply your learnings.

Furthermore, a digital certificate will be issued to participants who successfully complete our course, so that you can share your accomplishment with potential employers and recruiters on LinkedIn.

If you're looking to bring your Python skills up to help out with your dissertation, prep for an internship, or generally expand on your abilities, then make sure to sign up below!

Sign-Up link:
https://forms.gle/LFEpXLHgTa18L2W46

Hi everyone! We are looking for three first-year undergraduate students to join our team. Your role will be to market our events to your peers and to learn more about how we run the society. You might even be given the opportunity to run your own event if you have a good idea and the commitment to make it happen!

Essential:
-A desire to improve the experience of students in the statistics department and their friends, to foster a strong community, and to learn how a society is run.

This role is open to any first-year undergraduate student with an interest in getting involved with the society.
Fill the application form here (deadline: Wednesday 19th January at 5PM):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_VKgKS-bgQDYCxkALbjFn4npiVnRSM4QterNKtpW9cojOQA/viewform
You can come to talk to us at Stats Café every Wednesday at 1PM in the Statistics common room. We offer academic help, CV advice, free pizza, and good company. Come to find out more about the role and what we do as a society.

Warwick Statistics Society Freshers' Representative Application We are looking for three first year undergraduate students to join our team. Your role will be to market our events to your peers and to learn more about how we run the society. You might even be given the opportunity to run your own event if you have a good idea and the commitment to make it happen...