York’s Schulich School of Business will launch Canada’s first Master of Science in Business Analytics in September, one of just a few master’s-level programs worldwide in this rapidly growing and highly sought after discipline. Business analytics – the art and science of advanced statistical analysis popularized by the movie Moneyball and the bestselling book, Competing […]
The LaMarsh Centre for Research on Violence & Conflict Resolution, the Institute for Social Research (ISR) and the York Institute for Health Research (YIHR) are holding a research open house Thursday to highlight some of the excellence in research within each of the three units. The event will take place Jan. 13, from 2:30 to […]
York psychology Professor Michael Friendly will talk about statistics next week as part of the Science & Technology Studies Research Seminar Series. “The First (Known) Statistical Graph: Michael Florent van Langren and the ‘Secret’ of Longitude” will take place Tuesday, Nov. 30, from 12:30 to 2pm in Norman’s, 203 Bethune College, Keele campus. All are […]
After medical and security checks, anyone arriving in Canada may apply for refugee status, wrote the National Post Aug. 13, in a story that used statistics provided by Michele Millard, coordinator of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University: The process takes anywhere from six months to 15 years. A new law passed this […]