The next meeting of the Glasgow local group of the Royal Statistical Society will be on Monday 28th January at 13:00. Hopefully, you’ll be able to join us then at the University of Glasgow in the Boyd Orr Building for an informal event with plenty of time for discussion
Full details and registration link below and at our website:
https://sites.google.com/site/rssglasgow/events
Best wishes,
RSS Glasgow Local Group committee
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Will Statistics get caught out by a data backlash?
Speaker: Hetan Shah, RSS executive director
Time: 13:00-14:00, (comprised of a 20-minute talk which allows for discussion and conversation after). Feel free to bring your lunch with you.
Place: Boyd Orr Building, Room 412.
Summary: Data used to be the province of statisticians and researchers. But now it has exploded into public consciousness. Large technology companies make money from data. Scandals such as Cambridge Analytica destroy public trust. Algorithms and artificial intelligence are starting to be deployed in a wide range of ways, leading to public concerns including privacy, bias and accountability. And there is also a crisis of faith around notions of misinformation, as summed up in terms such as ‘post-truth’ and ‘fake news’. Statisticians can’t quietly carry on without engaging in these issues. There is a risk that we may see a data backlash, affecting the work of many statisticians. #RSSGlaBacklash
Come and hear from Hetan Shah, executive director of the Royal Statistical Society about the issues in the wider data landscape, and how the RSS is responding. It will be an informal event, with plenty of time for discussion.
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