Statistical Learning with Big Data

Professor Trevor Hastie, Stanford University

The John A. Overdeck Professor
Professor of Statistics
Professor of Biomedical Data Science
Stanford University

As our ability to gather and store data improves, we are faced with the task of analysing these ever-growing mounds of information. This has required Statisticians to gain computing and database skills, and Engineers and Computer Scientists to learn statistical modeling and data analysis.

The result is a data scientist, one of the hottest job-descriptions in the tech world.

In this talk I will give some examples of big data and data-science challenges, and explore some approaches in detail.