[gov3009-l] Applied Stats 2/28

Hi everyone! This week at the Applied Statistics Workshop we will be welcoming *Isaac Kohane*, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He will be presenting work entitled* Interesting early results in data science that require new statistical methods*. Please find the abstract below and on the Applied Stats website here <https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/applied.stats.workshop-gov3009>. As usual, we will meet at noon in CGIS Knafel Room 354 and lunch will be provided. See you all there! -- Dana Higgins *Title:* *Interesting early results in data science that require new statistical methods* *Abstract:* In the brave new world of biomedical data science, new sources of data emerge seemingly every year from Twitter to genomes to weather to drug habits and/or doctor preferences. I will outline several interesting and apparently impactful findings that have emerged as a result of analyses of these data, both individually and jointly. I will then follow the discussion of these early successes with an outline of significant unanswered methodological challenges requiring a systematic and sound response if further progress is to be achieved. In particular, I will focus on those challenges which I believe are of the most interest to the biostatistical community.