DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS
Statistics Colloquium
University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut
The Department of Statistics Cordially invites you to a Colloquium
Vijay Nair
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
What’s the Big Deal about ‘BIG DATA’?
ABSTRACT
This is the latest term that is being used to capture the data-deluge phenomena faced in science, engineering, technology, and everyday life. So what’s new about ‘Big Data’? What’s happening in research, applications, education, funding, and the development of infrastructure to support Big Data initiatives? Are statisticians playing a key role in the big data revolution? What is Data Science and how is it different from Statistics? How can Statistics become even more central to Data Science? The presentation will discuss a number of these topics from one person’s perspective.
DATE: Friday, April 10, 2015
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: AUST 105
Coffee at 10:30 in AUST 326
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Vijay Nair is Donald A. Darling professor of Statistics and professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. He was Chair of the Department of Statistics from 1998 to 2010. He is currently President of the International Statistical Institute. His research interests include engineering statistics, design and analysis of experiments, quality improvement, modeling and analysis of data networks, risk and reliability analysis, and design of behavioral intervention studies.
For more information, contact: Tracy Burke at tracy.burke@uconn.edu