A reminder about our next event on Tuesday 9 February at 3pm, where RSS President Peter Diggle will give his presidential address “Statistics: a Data Science for the 21st Century”. All welcome. Details and registration link below.
We look forward to welcoming as many of you as possible,
RSS Glasgow Local Group committee
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Tuesday 9th February 2016 – Statistics: a Data Science for the 21st Century
Speaker: Professor Peter Diggle, President, Royal Statistical Society
Time: 3.00-4.00pm followed by drinks and nibbles.
Place: Room LT908, Livingstone Tower, University of Strathclyde, G1 1XH
Summary: The rise of data science could be seen as a potential threat to the long-term status of the statistics discipline. I first argue that, although there is a threat, there is also a much greater opportunity to re-emphasize the universal relevance of statistical methods to the interpretation of data, and I give a short historical outline of the increasingly important links between statistics and information technology. The core of the paper is a summary of several recent research projects, through which I hope to demonstrate that statistics makes an essential, but incomplete, contribution to the emerging field of ‘electronic health’ research. Finally, I offer personal thoughts on how statistics might best be organized in a research-led university, on what we should teach our students and on some issues broadly related to data science where the Royal Statistical Society can take a lead.
Twitter: Join the discussion and post questions using the hashtag #RSSGlasPres
Registration: For catering purposes, it would be very helpful if you could register for the event at https://sites.google.com/site/rssglasgow/events
Further information about Royal Statistical Society Glasgow Local Group:
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