'President's Invited Speaker' keynote talk given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on August 22, 2016, at the '37th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB)' in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors, as well as pharmaceutical development. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms 'big data' and 'data science'. This presentation gives a professional Swiss statistician's 'big tent' overview of these terms in pharmaceutical development, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics - the terms surrounding the 'sexiest job of the 21st century' - and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
Demystifying Big Data, Data Science and Statistics, along with Machine Intell...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on November 25, 2016, at the `Statistics at Nestlé in Switzerland' event of `Nestlé' in Vevey, Switzerland.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
Overview of Big Data, Data Science and Statistics, along with Digitalisation,...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on November 29, 2016, at the `University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland' (`Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud', HEIG-VD) in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.
A Statistician's 'Big Tent' View on Big Data and Data Science (Version 6)Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on April 23, 2015, at the 'ZüKoSt: Seminar on Applied Statistics' of the ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms 'big data' and 'data science'. This presentation gives a professional statistician's 'big tent' view on these terms, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
The Power of Data Insights - Big Data as the Fuel and Analytics as the Engine...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Keynote presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on February 1, 2017, at the `Microsoft Vision Days - Intelligent Cloud' event of Microsoft Switzerland in Wallisellen, Switzerland.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
A Statistician's 'Big Tent' View on Big Data and Data Science (Version 5)Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on November 21, 2014, at the 'Research Seminar in Statistics' of the University of Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms 'big data' and 'data science'. This presentation gives a professional statistician's 'big tent' view on these terms, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
A Statistician's View on Big Data and Data Science in Pharmaceutical Developm...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on October 13, 2014, at `F. Hoffmann-La Roche' in Basel, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors, as well as the pharmaceutical industry. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms `big data' and `data science'. This presentation gives a professional statistician's view on these terms in pharmaceutical development, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
Big Data, Data-Driven Decision Making and Statistics Towards Data-Informed Po...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on October 20, 2015, at the Swiss Statistical Society's celebration of the `World Statistics Day 2015' in Olten, Switzerland.
Further information are available at https://worldstatisticsday.org/blog.html?c=CHE
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
A Statistician's Introductory View on Big Data and Data Science (Version 7)Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on May 12, 2015, at the 'SAS Forum Switzerland' in Zurich, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms 'big data' and 'data science'. This presentation gives a professional statistician's introductory view on these terms, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
Demystifying Big Data, Data Science and Statistics, along with Machine Intell...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on November 25, 2016, at the `Statistics at Nestlé in Switzerland' event of `Nestlé' in Vevey, Switzerland.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
Overview of Big Data, Data Science and Statistics, along with Digitalisation,...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on November 29, 2016, at the `University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland' (`Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud', HEIG-VD) in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland.
A Statistician's 'Big Tent' View on Big Data and Data Science (Version 6)Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on April 23, 2015, at the 'ZüKoSt: Seminar on Applied Statistics' of the ETH Zurich in Zurich, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms 'big data' and 'data science'. This presentation gives a professional statistician's 'big tent' view on these terms, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
The Power of Data Insights - Big Data as the Fuel and Analytics as the Engine...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Keynote presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on February 1, 2017, at the `Microsoft Vision Days - Intelligent Cloud' event of Microsoft Switzerland in Wallisellen, Switzerland.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
A Statistician's 'Big Tent' View on Big Data and Data Science (Version 5)Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on November 21, 2014, at the 'Research Seminar in Statistics' of the University of Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms 'big data' and 'data science'. This presentation gives a professional statistician's 'big tent' view on these terms, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
A Statistician's View on Big Data and Data Science in Pharmaceutical Developm...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on October 13, 2014, at `F. Hoffmann-La Roche' in Basel, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors, as well as the pharmaceutical industry. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms `big data' and `data science'. This presentation gives a professional statistician's view on these terms in pharmaceutical development, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
Big Data, Data-Driven Decision Making and Statistics Towards Data-Informed Po...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on October 20, 2015, at the Swiss Statistical Society's celebration of the `World Statistics Day 2015' in Olten, Switzerland.
Further information are available at https://worldstatisticsday.org/blog.html?c=CHE
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
A Statistician's Introductory View on Big Data and Data Science (Version 7)Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on May 12, 2015, at the 'SAS Forum Switzerland' in Zurich, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms 'big data' and 'data science'. This presentation gives a professional statistician's introductory view on these terms, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on May 13, 2014, at the `SMi Big Data in Pharma' conference in London, United Kingdom.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms `big data' and `data science'. This presentation gives a professional statistician's view on these terms, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
A Statistician's 'Big Tent' View on Big Data and Data Science (Version 9)Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on October 1, 2015, at the `Joint SCITAS and Statistics Seminar' of the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms 'big data' and 'data science'. This presentation gives a professional statistician's 'big tent' view on these terms, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
Big Data as the Fuel and Analytics as the Engine of the Digital TransformationProf. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Keynote presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on June 13, 2017, at the `Information Builders Think Tank Lunch' in Zurich, Switzerland.
A Statistician's 'Big Tent' View on Big Data and Data Science (Version 8)Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on July 2, 2015, at 'Swiss Re' in Adliswil, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms 'big data' and 'data science'. This presentation gives a professional statistician's 'big tent' view on these terms, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
A Swiss Statistician's 'Big Tent' View on Big Data and Data Science (Version 10)Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Keynote talk given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on October 21, 2015, at the `Austrian Statistics Days 2015' in Vienna, Austria.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms 'big data' and 'data science'. This presentation gives a professional Swiss statistician's 'big tent' view on these terms, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
Glocalised Smart Statistics and Analytics of Things: Core Challenges and Key ...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Invited presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on July 18, 2017 within Eurostat's special topic session `STS021: From Big Data to Smart Statistics' at the `61st ISI World Statistics Congress' (ISI2017) in Marrakech, Morocco.
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on August 26, 2014, at the `Zurich Machine Learning and Data Science' meetup in Zurich, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms `big data' and `data science'. This presentation gives a professional statistician's view on these terms and illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
A Statistician's `Big Tent' View on Big Data and Data Science in Health Scien...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on April 18, 2016, at the `Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences' in Lausanne, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors, as well as health sciences. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms 'big data' and 'data science'. This presentation gives a professional Swiss statistician's 'big tent' view on these terms in health sciences, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
Data as Fuel and Analytics as Engine of the Digital Transformation: Demystic...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Invited presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on September 19, 2017, at the "ITU-Academia Partnership Meeting: Developing Skills for the Digital Era" in Budapest, Hungary.
See https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Capacity-Building/Pages/events/academia2017.aspx
Big Data, Data Science, Machine Intelligence and Learning: Demystification, T...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Keynote presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on March 14, 2017 at Eurostat's international conference `New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS) 2017' in Brussels, Belgium.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
Big Data as the Fuel and Visual Analytics as the Engine Mount of the Digital ...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Public keynote presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on July 7, 2017, in the context of the `CAS Data Visualization' of the `Bern University of the Arts' (HKB) in Berne, Switzerland.
See https://www.hkb.bfh.ch/de/weiterbildung/design/cas-data-visualization and http://bka.ch/worte/rubriken/worte/kein-datensalat
(Big) Data as the Fuel and Analytics as the Engine of the Digital TransformationProf. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Webinar presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on March 15, 2018, within the TIBCO webinar entitled "Demystifying the Hype: [Big] Data as Fuel and Analytics as the Engine of Digital Transformation"; see
https://www.tibco.com/events/demystifying-hype-big-data-fuel-and-analytics-engine-digital-transformation
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ABSTRACT
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The digital revolution is truly underway: terms such as big data, cloud, internet of things, internet of everything, the fourth industrial revolution, smart cities and data economy are no longer just concepts - they are changing our lives in new and exciting ways.
Digital Transformation started with a first wave of digitalisation, which resulted in the (big) data revolution. But now a second wave of digitalisation is needed to enable learning from (big) data and to generate increased value for both business and society as a whole.
This presentation discusses how analytics, the science of "learning from data" or of "making sense out of data", becomes the engine of a new wave of Digital Transformation, and illustrates that the biggest challenge therein is the veracity of the "data pedigree", i.e. the trustworthiness of the data, including the reliability, capability, validity, and related quality of the data.
This presentation looks at demystifying concepts and terms surrounding Digital Transformation and big data. Along with machine intelligence and learning, the connection between data science and statistics is illustrated, and trends, challenges, opportunities, and the related digital skills and principles needed to succeed at Digital Transformation are highlighted.
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on November 20, 2013, at the "IBM Developer Days 2013" in Zurich, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data has hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms big data and data science. This presentation gives a professional statistician's view on these terms and illustrates the connection between data science and statistics.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
"Data as the Fuel and Analytics as the Engine of the Digital Transformation -...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Webinar presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on May 14, 2019, within the StatSoft webinar entitled "Data as the Fuel and Analytics as the Engine of the Digital Transformation - Demystication, Challenges, Opportunities and
Principles for Success"; see https://www.statsoft.de/en/dates/webinars/
Big Data, Data Science, Machine Intelligence and Learning: Demystification, C...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Keynote speech given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on February 28, 2019 at the "Swiss Cyber Security Days 2019" on February 27-28, 2019 in Fribourg, Switzerland; see https://swisscybersecuritydays.ch/.
Data as the Fuel and Analytics as the Engine of the Digital Transformation: D...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Keynote speech given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on June 26, 2018 at TIBCO's "Data Innovation Event" in Zurich, Switzerland; see https://www.tibco.com/events/tibco-data-innovation-event
Production Processes of Official Statistics & Data Innovation Processes Augme...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Keynote speech given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on May 15, 2018 at the conference "Big Data for European Statistics (BDES)" in Sofia, Bulgaria; see
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/mwikis/essnetbigdata/index.php/BDES_2018
Data as the Fuel and Analytics as the Engine of the Digital Transformation: D...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Keynote speech given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on June 7, 2018 at the "5th Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS|2018)" in Berne, Switzerland; see https://sds2018.ch/.
Big Data [sorry] & Data Science: What Does a Data Scientist Do?Data Science London
What 'kind of things' does a data scientist do? What are the foundations and principles of data science? What is a Data Product? What does the data science process looks like? Learning from data: Data Modeling or Algorithmic Modeling? - talk by Carlos Somohano @ds_ldn at The Cloud and Big Data: HDInsight on Azure London 25/01/13
"My portrait" in the September 2016 issue of the "CAMPUS" magazine («Le magazine scientifique de l'Université de Genève»); see http://www.unige.ch/campus/campus126/dossier4/
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on May 13, 2014, at the `SMi Big Data in Pharma' conference in London, United Kingdom.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms `big data' and `data science'. This presentation gives a professional statistician's view on these terms, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
A Statistician's 'Big Tent' View on Big Data and Data Science (Version 9)Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on October 1, 2015, at the `Joint SCITAS and Statistics Seminar' of the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms 'big data' and 'data science'. This presentation gives a professional statistician's 'big tent' view on these terms, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
Big Data as the Fuel and Analytics as the Engine of the Digital TransformationProf. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Keynote presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on June 13, 2017, at the `Information Builders Think Tank Lunch' in Zurich, Switzerland.
A Statistician's 'Big Tent' View on Big Data and Data Science (Version 8)Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on July 2, 2015, at 'Swiss Re' in Adliswil, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms 'big data' and 'data science'. This presentation gives a professional statistician's 'big tent' view on these terms, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
A Swiss Statistician's 'Big Tent' View on Big Data and Data Science (Version 10)Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Keynote talk given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on October 21, 2015, at the `Austrian Statistics Days 2015' in Vienna, Austria.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms 'big data' and 'data science'. This presentation gives a professional Swiss statistician's 'big tent' view on these terms, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
Glocalised Smart Statistics and Analytics of Things: Core Challenges and Key ...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Invited presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on July 18, 2017 within Eurostat's special topic session `STS021: From Big Data to Smart Statistics' at the `61st ISI World Statistics Congress' (ISI2017) in Marrakech, Morocco.
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on August 26, 2014, at the `Zurich Machine Learning and Data Science' meetup in Zurich, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms `big data' and `data science'. This presentation gives a professional statistician's view on these terms and illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
A Statistician's `Big Tent' View on Big Data and Data Science in Health Scien...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on April 18, 2016, at the `Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences' in Lausanne, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data have hit the business, government and scientific sectors, as well as health sciences. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms 'big data' and 'data science'. This presentation gives a professional Swiss statistician's 'big tent' view on these terms in health sciences, illustrates the connection between data science and statistics, and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a statistical perspective.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
Data as Fuel and Analytics as Engine of the Digital Transformation: Demystic...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Invited presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on September 19, 2017, at the "ITU-Academia Partnership Meeting: Developing Skills for the Digital Era" in Budapest, Hungary.
See https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Capacity-Building/Pages/events/academia2017.aspx
Big Data, Data Science, Machine Intelligence and Learning: Demystification, T...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Keynote presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on March 14, 2017 at Eurostat's international conference `New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics (NTTS) 2017' in Brussels, Belgium.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
Big Data as the Fuel and Visual Analytics as the Engine Mount of the Digital ...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Public keynote presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on July 7, 2017, in the context of the `CAS Data Visualization' of the `Bern University of the Arts' (HKB) in Berne, Switzerland.
See https://www.hkb.bfh.ch/de/weiterbildung/design/cas-data-visualization and http://bka.ch/worte/rubriken/worte/kein-datensalat
(Big) Data as the Fuel and Analytics as the Engine of the Digital TransformationProf. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Webinar presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on March 15, 2018, within the TIBCO webinar entitled "Demystifying the Hype: [Big] Data as Fuel and Analytics as the Engine of Digital Transformation"; see
https://www.tibco.com/events/demystifying-hype-big-data-fuel-and-analytics-engine-digital-transformation
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ABSTRACT
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The digital revolution is truly underway: terms such as big data, cloud, internet of things, internet of everything, the fourth industrial revolution, smart cities and data economy are no longer just concepts - they are changing our lives in new and exciting ways.
Digital Transformation started with a first wave of digitalisation, which resulted in the (big) data revolution. But now a second wave of digitalisation is needed to enable learning from (big) data and to generate increased value for both business and society as a whole.
This presentation discusses how analytics, the science of "learning from data" or of "making sense out of data", becomes the engine of a new wave of Digital Transformation, and illustrates that the biggest challenge therein is the veracity of the "data pedigree", i.e. the trustworthiness of the data, including the reliability, capability, validity, and related quality of the data.
This presentation looks at demystifying concepts and terms surrounding Digital Transformation and big data. Along with machine intelligence and learning, the connection between data science and statistics is illustrated, and trends, challenges, opportunities, and the related digital skills and principles needed to succeed at Digital Transformation are highlighted.
Presentation given by Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on November 20, 2013, at the "IBM Developer Days 2013" in Zurich, Switzerland.
ABSTRACT
There is no question that big data has hit the business, government and scientific sectors. The demand for skills in data science is unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of misleading hype around the terms big data and data science. This presentation gives a professional statistician's view on these terms and illustrates the connection between data science and statistics.
The presentation is also available at http://www.statoo.com/BigDataDataScience/.
"Data as the Fuel and Analytics as the Engine of the Digital Transformation -...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Webinar presentation given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on May 14, 2019, within the StatSoft webinar entitled "Data as the Fuel and Analytics as the Engine of the Digital Transformation - Demystication, Challenges, Opportunities and
Principles for Success"; see https://www.statsoft.de/en/dates/webinars/
Big Data, Data Science, Machine Intelligence and Learning: Demystification, C...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Keynote speech given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on February 28, 2019 at the "Swiss Cyber Security Days 2019" on February 27-28, 2019 in Fribourg, Switzerland; see https://swisscybersecuritydays.ch/.
Data as the Fuel and Analytics as the Engine of the Digital Transformation: D...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Keynote speech given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on June 26, 2018 at TIBCO's "Data Innovation Event" in Zurich, Switzerland; see https://www.tibco.com/events/tibco-data-innovation-event
Production Processes of Official Statistics & Data Innovation Processes Augme...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
Keynote speech given by Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci, on May 15, 2018 at the conference "Big Data for European Statistics (BDES)" in Sofia, Bulgaria; see
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/mwikis/essnetbigdata/index.php/BDES_2018
Data as the Fuel and Analytics as the Engine of the Digital Transformation: D...Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen
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A Swiss Statistician's 'Big Tent' Overview of Big Data and Data Science in Pharmaceutical Development (Version 12)
1. A Swiss Statistician’s ‘Big Tent’
Overview of Big Data and Data
Science in Pharmaceutical
Development
(Version 12 as of 18.08.2016)
Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci
Statoo Consulting, Berne, Switzerland
@DiegoKuonen + kuonen@statoo.com + www.statoo.info
‘President’s Invited Speaker @ ISCB 2016’, Birmingham, UK — August 22, 2016
2. Abstract
There is no question that big data have hit the business,
government and scientific sectors, as well as pharmaceutical
development. The demand for skills in data science is
unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and
efficiency are driven by data. However, there is plenty of
misleading hype around the terms ‘big data’ and ‘data science’.
This presentation gives a professional Swiss statistician’s ‘big
tent’ overview of these terms in pharmaceutical development,
illustrates the connection between data science and statistics —
the terms surrounding the ‘sexiest job of the 21st century’ —
and highlights some challenges and opportunities from a
statistical perspective.
4. ‘Big tent’ versus ‘big top’
Source: www.imgmob.net/image/big-top/exciting-than-the-big-top.
5. ‘Statistics has contributed much to data analysis. In
the future it can, and in my view should, contribute
much more. For such contributions to exist, and be
valuable, it is not necessary that they be direct. They
need not provide new techniques, or better tables for
old techniques, in order to influence the practice of
data analysis.’
John W. Tukey, 1962
6.
7. About myself (about.me/DiegoKuonen)
PhD in Statistics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
MSc in Mathematics, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• CStat (‘Chartered Statistician’), Royal Statistical Society, United Kingdom.
• PStat (‘Accredited Professional Statistician’), American Statistical Association, United
States of America.
• CSci (‘Chartered Scientist’), Science Council, United Kingdom.
• Elected Member, International Statistical Institute, Netherlands.
• Senior Member, American Society for Quality, United States of America.
• President of the Swiss Statistical Society (2009-2015).
CEO & CAO, Statoo Consulting, Switzerland.
Adjunct Professor of Data Science, Research Center for Statistics (RCS), Geneva School
of Economics and Management (GSEM), University of Geneva, Switzerland.
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9. About Statoo Consulting (www.statoo.info)
• Founded Statoo Consulting in 2001.
2016 − 2001 = 15 + .
• Statoo Consulting is a software-vendor independent Swiss consulting firm
specialised in statistical consulting and training, data analysis, data mining and
big data analytics services.
• Statoo Consulting offers consulting and training in statistical thinking, statistics,
data mining and big data analytics in English, French and German.
Are you drowning in uncertainty and starving for knowledge?
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11. ‘Normality is a myth; there never was, and never will
be, a normal distribution.’
Robert C. Geary, 1947
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12. Contents
Contents 7
1. Demystifying the ‘big data’ hype 9
2. Data-driven decision making 22
3. Demystifying the ‘data science’ hype 26
4. What distinguishes data science from statistics? 29
5. Conclusion and opportunities (not only for statisticians!) 35
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13. ‘Data is arguably the most important natural
resource of this century. ... Big data is big news just
about everywhere you go these days. Here in Texas,
everything is big, so we just call it data.’
Michael Dell, 2014
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14. 1. Demystifying the ‘big data’ hype
• ‘Big data’ have hit the business, government and scientific sectors.
The term ‘big data’ — coined in 1997 by two researchers at the NASA — has
acquired the trappings of religion.
• But, what exactly are ‘big data’?
The term ‘big data’ applies to an accumulation of data that can not be
processed or handled using traditional data management processes or tools.
Big data are a data management infrastructure which should ensure that the
underlying hardware, software and architecture have the ability to enable ‘learning
from data’, i.e. ‘analytics’.
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15. • The following characteristics — ‘the four Vs’ — provide a definition:
– ‘Volume’ : ‘data at rest’, i.e. the amount of data ( ‘data explosion problem’),
with respect to the number of observations ( ‘size’ of the data), but also with
respect to the number of variables ( ‘dimensionality’ of the data);
– ‘Variety’ : ‘data in many forms’, ‘mixed data’ or ‘broad data’, i.e. different
types of data (e.g. structured, semi-structured and unstructured, e.g. log files,
text, web or multimedia data such as images, videos, audio), data sources (e.g.
internal, external, open, public), data resolutions (e.g. measurement scales and
aggregation levels), data granularities and data collection methods (i.e.
measurement systems);
– ‘Velocity’ : ‘data in motion’ or ‘fast data’, i.e. the speed by which data are
generated and need to be handled (e.g. streaming data from machines, sensors
and social data);
– ‘Veracity’ : ‘data in doubt’, i.e. the varying levels of noise and processing errors,
including the reliability (‘quality over time’), capability and validity of the data.
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17. What do big data look like?
Source: The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (2013). Big Data Road Map
(www.abpi.org.uk/our-work/library/industry/Pages/big-data-road-map.aspx).
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18. How do big data feel like?
Source: article ‘Things are looking app’ in The Economist on March 12, 2016 (goo.gl/zPNqBf).
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19. ‘The new medical data ecosystem’
Medicine has entered its data age
( digital revolution).
Medical data are being captured
today from many sources.
Pulling them together and
studying what they mean is the next
challenge.
Source: MIT Technology Review (2014).
Data-Driven Health Care (goo.gl/26jQHk).
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20. ‘As an extension of the digital revolution, the
‘Internet of Things’ [IoT; a term coined in 1999!]
offers particular relevance to health, namely ‘Digital
Health’. For example, monitoring people actively
(e.g. via connected wearable tech devices) and
passively (e.g. via stationary sensors) can provide
insights into the activity and health of consumers and
patients alike.’
Paul Sonnier, 2016
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22. • ‘Volume’ is often the least important issue: it is definitely not a requirement to
have a minimum of a petabyte of data, say.
Bigger challenges are ‘variety’ (e.g. combining different omics data generated by
various high-throughput technologies) and ‘velocity’, and most important is ‘veracity’
and the related quality of the data .
Indeed, big data come with the data quality and data governance challenges of
‘small’ data along with new challenges of its own!
• The above definition of big data is vulnerable to the criticism of sceptics that these
four Vs have always been there.
Nevertheless, the definition provides a clear and concise framework to communicate
about how to solve different data processing challenges.
But, what is new?
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23. ‘Scientists have long known that data could create
new knowledge but now the rest of the world,
including government and management in particular,
has realised that data can create value.’
Sean Patrick Murphy, 2013
Source: interview with Sean Patrick Murphy, a former senior scientist at Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory, in the Big Data Innovation Magazine, September 2013.
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24. ‘To get the full business value from big data,
companies need to focus less on the three Vs of big
data (volume, variety, velocity) and more on the four
Ms of big data: ‘Make Me More Money’!’
Bill Schmarzo, March 2, 2015
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25. ‘Do not focus on the ‘bigness’ of the data, but on the
value creation from the data.’
Stephen Brobst, August 7, 2015
The 5th V of big data: ‘Value’.
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26. ‘Data are not taken for museum purposes; they are
taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to
be done with the data, then there is no use in
collecting any. The ultimate purpose of taking data
is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation
for action.’
W. Edwards Deming, 1942
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27. 2. Data-driven decision making
• Data-driven decision making refers to the practice of basing decisions on the
analysis of data (i.e. ‘learning from data’), rather than purely on gut feeling and
intuition:
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29. ‘One by one, the various crises which the world faces
become more obvious and the need for hard facts
[facts by analyzing data] on which to take sensible
action becomes inescapable.’
George E. P. Box, 1976
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30. The ‘sexiest job of the 21st century’?
Source: smartalicewebdesign.com.
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31. 3. Demystifying the ‘data science’ hype
• The demand for ‘data scientists’ — the ‘magicians of the big data era’ — is
unprecedented in sectors where value, competitiveness and efficiency are data-driven.
The term ‘data science’ was originally coined in 1998 by a statistician.
Data science — a rebranding of ‘data mining’ — is the non-trivial
process of identifying valid (that is, the patterns hold in general, i.e. being
valid on new data in the face of uncertainty), novel, potentially useful
and ultimately understandable patterns or structures or models or trends
or relationships in data to enable data-driven decision making.
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32. • Is data science ‘statistical d´ej`a vu’?
But, what is ‘statistics’?
Statistics is the science of ‘learning from data’ (or of making sense out
of data), and of measuring, controlling and communicating uncertainty.
It is a process that includes everything from planning for the collection of data and
subsequent data management to end-of-the-line activities such as drawing conclusions
of data and presentation of results.
Uncertainty is measured in units of probability, which is the currency (or grammar)
of statistics.
Statistics is concerned with the study of data-driven decision making in the face
of uncertainty.
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33. ‘Statistics has been the most successful information
science. Those who ignore statistics are condemned
to re-invent it.’
Brad Efron, 1997
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34. 4. What distinguishes data science from statistics?
• Statistics traditionally is concerned with analysing primary (e.g. experimental) data
that have been collected to explain and check the validity of specific existing ideas
(hypotheses).
Primary data analysis or top-down (explanatory and confirmatory) analysis.
‘Idea (hypothesis) evaluation or testing’ .
• Data science (or data mining), on the other hand, typically is concerned with
analysing secondary (e.g. observational or ‘found’) data that have been collected
for other reasons (and not ‘under control’ of the investigator) to create new ideas
(hypotheses).
Secondary data analysis or bottom-up (exploratory and predictive) analysis.
‘Idea (hypothesis) generation’ .
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35. • The two approaches of ‘learning from data’ are complementary and should proceed
side by side — in order to enable proper data-driven decision making.
Example. When historical data are available the idea to be generated from a bottom-
up analysis (e.g. using a mixture of so-called ‘ensemble techniques’) could be
‘which are the most important (from a predictive point of view) factors
(among a ‘large’ list of candidate factors) that impact a given output (or a
given indicator)?’.
Mixed with subject-matter knowledge this idea could result in a list of a ‘small’
number of factors (i.e. ‘the critical ones’).
The confirmatory tools of top-down analysis (statistical ‘Design Of Experiments’,
DOE, in most of the cases) could then be used to confirm and evaluate this idea.
By doing this, new data will be collected (about ‘all’ factors) and a bottom-up
analysis could be applied again — letting the data suggest new ideas to test.
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36. Example. ‘Relative variable, i.e. factor, importance’ measures resulting from so-called
‘stochastic gradient tree boosting’ using real-world data on 679 variables:
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37. ‘Neither exploratory nor confirmatory is sufficient
alone. To try to replace either by the other is
madness. We need them both.’
John W. Tukey, 1980
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38. Data-driven decision making and scientific investigation (Box, 1976)
Source: Box, G. E. P. (1976). Science and statistics. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 71, 791–799.
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39. ‘Experiments may be conducted sequentially so that
each set may be designed using the knowledge gained
from the previous sets.’
George E. P. Box and K. B. Wilson, 1951
Scientific investigation is a sequential learning process!
Statistical methods allow investigators to accumulate knowledge!
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40. 5. Conclusion and opportunities (not only for statisticians!)
• Decision making that was once based on hunches and intuition should be driven by
data ( data-driven decision making, i.e. muting the HIPPOs).
• Despite an awful lot of marketing hype, big data are here to stay — as well as
IoT — and will over time, impact every single domain, including pharmaceutical
development!
The ‘age of big data’ could (and will hopefully) be a new golden era for statistics.
• Statistical principles and rigour are necessary to justify the inferential leap from
data to knowledge.
At the heart of extracting value from big data lies statistics!
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41. ‘We are in the era of big data, and big data needs
statisticians to make sense of it.’
Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg, 2014
Source: Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman and former CEO, and Jonathan Rosenberg, Google’s
former senior vice president of product, in their 2014 book How Google Works
(New York, NY: Grand Central Publishing — HowGoogleWorks.net).
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42. • Lack of expertise in statistics can lead (and has already led) to fundamental errors!
Large amounts of data plus sophisticated analytics do not guarantee success!
Historical results do not guarantee future performance!
• The key elements for a successful (big) data analytics and data science future are
statistical principles and rigour of humans!
• Statistics, (big) data analytics and data science are aids to thinking and not
replacements for it!
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43. Technology is not the real challenge of the digital transformation!
Digital is not about the technologies (which change too quickly)!
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44. Source: ‘12 incredible IoT products — Why are these experts excited about the future?’,
Manthan, India, April 29, 2016 (goo.gl/ZymF7y).
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45. My key principles for analytics’ success
• Do not neglect the following four principles that ensure successful outcomes:
– use of sequential approaches to problem solving and improvement, as studies
are rarely completed with a single data set but typically require the sequential
analysis of several data sets over time;
– having a strategy for the project and for the conduct of the data analysis;
including thought about the ‘business’ objectives ( ‘strategic thinking’ );
– carefully considering data quality and assessing the ‘data pedigree’ before,
during and after the data analysis; and
– applying sound subject matter knowledge (‘domain knowledge’ or ‘business
knowledge’, i.e. knowing the ‘business’ context, process and problem to which
analytics will be applied), which should be used to help define the problem, to
assess the data pedigree, to guide data analysis and to interpret the results.
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46. ‘The data may not contain the answer. The
combination of some data and an aching desire for an
answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can
be extracted from a given body of data.’
John W. Tukey, 1986
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47. • Some challenges from a statistical perspective include
– the ethics of using and linking (big) data, particularly in relation to personal data,
i.e. ethical issues related to privacy ( ‘information rules’ need to be defined),
confidentiality (of shared private information), transparency (e.g. of data uses
and data users) and identity (i.e. data should not compromise identity);
– the provenance of the data, e.g. the quality of the data — including issues like
omissions, data linkage errors, duplication, measurement errors, censoring,
missing observations, atypical observations, missing variables ( ‘omitted
variable bias’), the characteristics and heterogeneity of the sample — big data
being ‘only’ a sample (at a particular time) of a population of interest (
‘sampling/selection bias’, i.e. is the sample representative to the population it
was designed for?);
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48. ‘To properly analyze data, we must first understand
the process that produced the data. While many ...
take the view that data are innocent until proven
guilty, ... it is more prudent to take the opposite
approach, that data are guilty until proven
innocent.’
Roger W. Hoerl, Ronald D. Snee and Richard D. De Veaux, 2014
Source: Hoerl, R. W., Snee, R. D. & De Veaux, R. D. (2014). Applying statistical thinking to ‘big data’
problems. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics, 6, 222–232.
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49. – the visualisation of the data, e.g. using and developing effective graphical
procedures;
– spurious (false) associations ( ‘coincidence’ increases, i.e. it becomes more
likely, as sample size increases, and as such ‘there are always patterns’) versus
valid causal relationships ( ‘confirmation bias’);
– the identification of (and the controlling for) confounding factors (
‘confoundedness’, i.e. the attribution of the wrong factors to success and the
superficial learning of observational data);
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50. – multiple statistical hypothesis testing for explanation (not prediction!) with
tens of thousands or even millions of tests performed simultaneously, e.g. using
high-throughput technology advances, often with complex dependencies
between tests (e.g. spatial or temporal dependence), and the development of
further statistically valid methods to solve large-scale simultaneous hypothesis
testing problems;
– the dimensionality of the data ( ‘curse of dimensionality’, i.e. data become
more ‘sparse’ or spread out as the dimensionality increases), and the related usage
and development of statistically valid strategies for dimensionality reduction, e.g.
using ‘embedded’ variable subset selection methods like ‘ensemble techniques’;
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51. – the validity of generalisation ( avoid ‘overfitting’, i.e. interpreting an
exploratory analysis as predictive);
– the replicability of findings, i.e. that an independent experiment targeting the
same question(s) will produce consistent results, and the reproducibility of
findings, i.e. the ability to recompute results given observed data and
knowledge of the data analysis pipeline;
– the nature and sources of variation and uncertainty inherent in the problem (both
random and systematic);
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52. – the balance of humans and computers.
‘There’s no better way to lose money really quickly
than through automated analytics. So I think we have
to be very careful to not totally step out of the picture
and let things go awry.’
Thomas H. Davenport, April 30, 2014
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53. ‘Business is not chess; smart machines alone can not
win the game for you. The best that they can do for
you is to augment the strengths of your people.’
Thomas H. Davenport, August 12, 2015
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55. ‘Driverless cars do not know where to go or why.
Humans are needed to provide context, to frame the
problem, to generate the hypothesis, and to decide
what deep learning or data science to apply. Even
today’s most advanced systems are ‘idiot savants’
that perform a single task really well, but do not have
a broader context.’
Ron Bodkin, February 11, 2016
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56. ‘All successful technologies raise alarms and involve
trade-offs and risks. In ancient times, fire could cook
your food and keep you warm, but, out of control,
could burn down your hut. Cars pollute the air and
cause traffic deaths, but they have also increased
personal mobility and freedom, and stimulated the
development of regional and national markets for
goods. The outlook for the technology we call big
data is not fundamentally different.’
Steve Lohr, 2015
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57. ‘Most of my life I went to parties and heard a little
groan when people heard what I did. Now they are all
excited to meet me.’
Robert Tibshirani, 2012
Source: interview with Robert Tibshirani, a statistics professor at Stanford University,
in the New York Times, January 26, 2012.
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59. Have you been Statooed?
Prof. Dr. Diego Kuonen, CStat PStat CSci
Statoo Consulting
Morgenstrasse 129
3018 Berne
Switzerland
email kuonen@statoo.com
@DiegoKuonen
web www.statoo.info
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