Text Analysis with Wendy Martinez

Wendy Martinez has been serving as the Director of the Mathematical Statistics Research Center at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for over eight years. Prior to this, she served in several research positions throughout the Department of Defense. She held the position of Science and Technology Program Officer at the Office of Naval Research, where she established a research portfolio comprised of academia and industry performers developing data science products for the future Navy and Marine Corps. Her areas of interest include computational statistics, exploratory data analysis (to include visualization), and text analysis. She is the lead author of three books on MATLAB and statistics. Dr. Martinez was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2006 and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She is also proud and grateful to have served as the 2020 ASA President.

Talk Abstract: The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is one of thirteen principal federal statistical agencies and is responsible for collecting data and producing several well-known economic indicators. Examples include the consumer price index and the monthly jobs report. BLS conducts surveys and censuses in areas related to productivity, prices, worker conditions, pay and benefits, and employment. In this talk, I will describe some applications in text analysis I’ve been involved with during my time at the BLS.