Dear All,
We would like to invite you to the next Leeds/Bradford Royal Statistical Society (RSS) meeting on Tuesday 12th May 2015. The meeting will be held at the University of Leeds and is entitled "Where are all the Data Scientists?".
The meeting will be held in Seminar Room 1.13, Baines Wing, University of Leeds, from 4-5pm with refreshments from 3:30pm. No registration is required and everyone is welcome, membership of RSS is not required to attend.
Peter Diggle - Royal Statistical Society President, Lancaster Medical School, University of Lancaster and Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool
Where are all the Data Scientists?
It appears to be the fate of statisticians to be periodically threatened with extinction. At the beginning of my career, the threat was that computer packages would make us redundant. Now, the threat is from a multiple assault by emerging species - machine learners, informaticians and, most of all, data-scientists. But the threat is also an opportunity. We should welcome the increasing appreciation of statistics by whatever name people choose to call it, and embrace these emerging species as allies who can strengthen our discipline rather than threaten its existence. However, in so doing we need to take a critical look at the way we teach statistics - both to our own students and to students in other disciplines.
Leeds/Bradford RSS Local Group website: https://sites.google.com/site/rssleedsbradford/
If you require further information please be in touch,
Thanks,
Sarah
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Dr. Sarah Fleming
Secretary/Treasurer, RSS Leeds/Bradford Local Group, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, LICAMM, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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