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Appendix D: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members
Pages 233-240

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From page 233...
... Prior to his appointment at NORC, he was vice president and managing director of surveys and statistics at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Kasprzyk has more than 30 years of experience in managing large-scale sample surveys in a variety of topic areas, including holding various positions on the staff of the Survey of Income and Program Participation at the U.S.
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From page 234...
... , which maintains the Content-Oriented Guidelines, including how to implement SDMX, cross-domain concepts code lists, how to model statistical datasets, and many other instruments and guidelines. He also manages the SDMX for Labor Statistics Global Data Structure D ­ efinition project -- the first Global DSD for social statistics, and is involved in other domains such as the Sustainable Development Goals, Education, and N ­ ational A ­ ccounts.
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From page 235...
... During his career at NCES, he has led or contributed significant methodological guidance to dozens of large-scale sample surveys such as the early childhood longitudinal studies, surveys of school safety, recurring teacher surveys, and the American Community Survey. He is currently associate commissioner of NCES for their Sample Surveys Division.
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From page 236...
... Galler collegiate professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan and director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science. His research focuses on how to build database systems and query models so that they are truly usable, and how to design analytics processes so that they can deliver real insights to nontechnical decision makers.
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From page 237...
... She has served as a member on the Panel on Improving Federal Statistics for Policy and Social Science Research Using Multiple Data Sources and State-of-the-Art Estimation Methods at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including Data Analysis Using Stata and Practical Tools for Designing and Weighting Survey Samples.
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From page 238...
... These digital traces reflect projections of collective and individual activity. He reconstructs the reality from these projections by designing data mining methods to summarize and augment these digital traces, inter­ active visualization techniques to inspect, present, and control the b ­ ehavior of teams and individuals, and statistical models and optimization techniques to understand the nature of individual and collective behavior.
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From page 239...
... ERIC RANCOURT is director general of the Modern Statistical M ­ ethods and Data Science Branch at Statistics Canada, where he has been for 30 years. He has occupied several roles, such as director general of strategic data management, director of international cooperation, director of corporate planning, head of research, production manager of Survey Methodology Journal, and researcher.
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From page 240...
... In order to make such data available to other researchers, he also conducts research on statistical disclosure limitation issues, including the creation and dissemination of synthetic data, and investigates novel methods and tools to disseminate metadata on such data. He is currently principal investi­gator on numerous grants, including those that fund activities at the National Science Foundation-Census Research Network (NCRN)
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