Secondary school S4, S5 and S6 pupils, as well as university undergraduate students in mathematics and statistics, are invited to join the RSS Edinburgh Local Group in a event focussed on careers in both Statistics and Data Science. This event is part of Maths Week Scotland.

We will have a diverse collection of Mystery Guests who are currently either Statisticians or Data Scientists, who are willing to be quizzed on their field of speciality. But the aim of the evening is to discover what those specialities are!

Attendees will be put into small groups to circulate around the venue, meeting each Mystery Guest for up to 10 minutes. During that time, attendees can ask the Mystery Guest a series of questions in a bid to find out what field of data it is that they work in. Any remaining time will be available for the Mystery Guest to tell the group a little about what they do in a typical day, and to answer any follow-up questions.