Chris Wild - The Need for Speed in the Path of the Deluge

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:31:23 +0000

Chris Wild, Department of Statistics, The University of Auckland
“The Need for Speed in the Path of the Deluge”
Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 2:45 p.m.
316 Machray Hall

There is a rapidly increasing awareness of the so-called “data deluge”: the explosion in quantities of data being collected, the explosion of settings in which it is being collected, and expansions in the conceptions and scope of what constitutes data. This is accompanied by advances in ways of visualising data and accessible data-visualisation tools. Consequently, it is imperative to find ways to get students much further, much faster and with better comprehension – a quantum leap in ambition. What can make this possible are some of the same things that gave rise to the deluge, computational power and clever software. We will advance some strategies that envisage maximising awareness and excitement about data and what it can do for you and only later back filling details. We also provide glimpses of two software projects beginning to enable such a future – a fleeting encounter with some data-analysis software followed by a more in-depth look at visualisation approaches to bootstrap and randomisation inference.

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Chris Wild - The Need for Speed in the Path of the Deluge