March 14, 2012

Big data in the papers

The New York Times has another article about the importance of `big data’ in the modern world:

GOOD with numbers? Fascinated by data? The sound you hear is opportunity knocking.

and in the UK, the Graudian’s DataBlog is asking “What is a data scientist?”, motivated by a conference in Califoria on “Making Data Work“.

 

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »

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