Marie Davidian, ASA president-elect, and Thomas A. Louis authored an editorial entitled "Why Statistics?" in the current (April 6) issue of Science. As demand increases for people to interpret the growing swathes of data we collect, statisticians are becoming the new cool kids on the tech block. Meghna Sachdev chats with Marie Davidian, Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University, and Thomas A. Louis, Professor of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, about their editorial 'Why Statistics?' in the current (April 6) issue of Science. See http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6077/12.summary and the podcast interview http://www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6077/12/suppl/DC1 同場加映, White House launches 'big data' initiative (3/29/2012) To launch the initiative, six Federal departments and agencies will announce more than $200 million in new commitments that, together, promise to greatly improve the tools and techniques needed to access, organize, and glean discoveries from huge volumes of digital data. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/03/29/big-data-big-deal 米國政府跨部會會議 Big Data Research and Development Initiative. 討論如何管理分享,分析,與應用big data http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_videos.jsp?cntn_id=123607&media_id=72174&org=NSF About Big Data: Researchers in a growing number of fields are generating extremely large and complicated data sets, commonly referred to as "big data." A wealth of information may be found within these sets, with enormous potential to shed light on some of the toughest and most pressing challenges facing the nation. To capitalize on this unprecedented opportunity--to extract insights, discover new patterns and make new connections across disciplines— we need better tools to access, store, search, visualize and analyze these data. NIH, NSF也公告了徵求Big data的研究提案 Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering (BIGDATA) http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504767 台灣要快點趕上.... 這是統計學家很大的機會 ※ 編輯: bmka 來自: 74.96.8.83 (04/14 11:56) ※ 編輯: bmka 來自: 74.96.8.83 (04/14 12:12)