Estimator 2.0 (win a bottle of vodka!)

Did you only start reading this article because the title contains ‘vodka’? Perhaps you did. I’ll get to that part later, let me first introduce the new Estimator site! From this year onwards, Estimator is no longer a quarterly magazine, but a website! FAECTOR’s main intention with this new format is to accomplish more: more readers, more articles, more diversity. The website is easily accessible and there will be a continuous flow of articles throughout the week (at this point we have a target of 4-5 per week, but in the exam times of weeks 7 and 8 of each block this will be less).

We have decided to make more room for entertainment: every Monday, the ‘Puzzle of the week’ will be published. We are also very happy to announce we have started a collaboration with the editors of ‘The Waffle’! Of course, this well-known news platform requires no introduction. ‘The Waffle’ articles will be regularly published on the Estimator site. Furthermore, every block, a prize can be won in a contest, and as you might have guessed this block’s prize is bottle of the finest, traditional vodka. Of course, we will still write about serious topics too: there will be a monthly horoscope written by our very own astrologist!

The second thing we will focus on more with the “new” Estimator, will be reader input. Whenever you feel you have something interesting to say, please contact us at estimator@faector.nl, and we might just publish it! This can be anything, from juicy gossip about board members or awesome personal experiences to ideas for puzzles or personal opinions. Something we will at least need your input for, is the new column ‘Agony Aunt Anne’! Whenever you have a problem and some advice would be welcome, write to our agony aunt! Anne will provide you with new, surprising insights that will definitely help you out.

Of course, we will also write about all FAECTOR’s events, like social drinks and parties, and inhouse days or the Landelijke Econometristen Dag. The upcoming weeks we will also introduce the new board and all new committees, and we will probably come up with many other kinds of articles as well. Before returning to the prize contest, let me also invite you to like us on Facebook: we are (not entirely unsurprisingly) called ‘FAECTOR Estimator’.

Now the contest: email a photo that illustrates econometrics in one picture to estimator@faector.nl before Monday the 30th of November! We raffle the bottle of vodka among all participants, so give it a shot and perhaps you will be the lucky winner!

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Written by:
  • Tobias Hoogteijling
| Published on: Oct 07, 2015