More Data, More Problems: What Society Needs from the Statistical and Data Sciences

More Data, More Problems: What Society Needs from the Statistical and Data Sciences

Neyman Seminar
Mar 13, 2019, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Brent Durbin, Smith College
Despite more than 20 years of increasing reliance on data-intensive digital tools for commerce, governance, and social interaction, society has been slow to respond to both the promise and the perils of the phenomenon we now call Big Data. This lack of adaptation to new ways of collecting, storing, and analyzing data has been especially apparent within universities and the public sector, both of...