Who Will Use Statistics? The Role of Software

Many of the great statisticians of all generations have worked hard, in addition to their research activities, to bring statistical insights and methods to important human activities. The pervasive use of software to collect data, at one end of human decision processes, and to present proposals and inferences, at the other end, potentially opens new ways to export our insights. It won't be easy, and the computational side is only part of the challenge. However, there are new approaches to computing in general that we can exploit to make statistics available to other people, in a sense it has not been in the past. This talk outlines some ways to proceed.