Probability and Statistics Seminar
Speaker: Dr Matthew Parry, Associate Professor in Statistics, University of Otago, New Zealand
Host: Siuli Mukhopadhyay
Title: Finding Things in High Dimensions
Time, day and date: 12:00:00 PM – 1:00:00 PM, Monday, September 28
Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Abstract: Data scientists and statisticians look for meaningful patterns in data. But finding those patterns can become surprisingly difficult when data have hundreds, thousands, or even millions of dimensions. In this talk, I'll explore how we can group documents and images, find biomarkers for disease, and recommend movies and TV series to viewers.