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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear colleague,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">T</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">he International Association for Statistical Computing has started a new open access and online journal,
the Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualisation (JDSSV).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We are pleased to announce that the first issue of the
<b>Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualisation</b> (</span><a href="https://jdssv.org/index.php/jdssv"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://jdssv.org/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">)
will become available online before the summer 2021. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We welcome contributions to data science, statistics, and visualisation and, in particular, papers which link and integrate these subject areas. Articles should be oriented towards
a wide scientific audience, and can cover topics such as machine learning and statistical learning, the visualisation and verbalisation of data, visual analytics, big data infrastructures and analytics, interactive learning, and advanced computing. Scientific
contributions should be of a high standard.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">At the moment we have a call for papers for
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">a</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Special Issue on COVID-19 Visualisation and Modeling, until June 30, 2021. More details can be found at
</span><a href="https://jdssv.org/index.php/jdssv/announcement/view/1"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://jdssv.org/index.php/jdssv/announcement/view/1</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The <b>Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualisation
</b>is an official journal of the International Association for Statistical Computing, see
</span><a href="https://iasc-isi.org/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://iasc-isi.org/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Kind regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Patrick Groenen and Stefan Van Aelst (Editors JDSSV)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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