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.

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.