Statistics and Data Science Seminar
Troy Hernandez
Sears Holdings Co.
Statisticians come in from the cold: BigQuery, R, and Shiny
Abstract: There's been a lot of hand-wringing over the fumbling of the statistics field in harnessing the
popularity of data science and the "big data revolution". This was most famously addressed in the
editorial from the previous ASA president Marie Davidian, ["Aren't We Data
Science?"](http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2013/07/01/datascience/). While I have to continue to inform
peers and colleagues that R is indeed a Turing complete programming language (and not just a statistical
computing environment), the data science hype has created technologies that enable any statistician get
into the data science game; most notably Shiny, and cloud-based databases. My talk will focus on weaving
these tools together in a way that allows statisticians to say, ["All your data science are belong to
us."](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us) Additionally, I will provide an
update on the issue of diversity in the tech industry from the frontline.
Wednesday February 24, 2016 at 4:00 PM in SEO 636