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Bryan talk at JSM 2015 re: are statisticians data scientists

2015-08_bryan-jsm-stat-data-sci-talk

The Statistics Identity Crisis: Are We Really Data Scientists?, session organized by Jeff Leek

• Presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings August 2015, Seattle.
• Reprise as an ASA/Simply Statistics Webinar, October 2015, amstat.org link, Google Hangout.
• Other speakers:
  • Alyssa Frazee, Stripe, http://alyssafrazee.com.
    'Am I a Data Scientist?': The Applied Statistics Student's Identity Crisis.
    Slides on speakerdeck.com.
  • Chris Volinsky, AT&T, http://www2.research.att.com/~volinsky/.
    How Industry Views Data Science Education in Statistics Departments.
    Slides on dropbox.
  • Lance Waller, Emory University, http://web1.sph.emory.edu/users/lwaller/.
    Evaluating Data Science Contributions in Teaching and Research.

Want to see my slides?

• PDF is in this repo: 2015-08_bryan-jsm-stat-data-sci.pdf
• View same over on SpeakerDeck

Two other talks in semi-recent past with some overlap (you might like the slides or links):

• New tools and workflow for data analysis, Fields Institute workshop, February 2015
• How R Markdown + Git + GitHub changed my (teaching?) life, R Summit and Workshop, June 2015

Links

The Big Data Brain Drain: Why Science is in Trouble: http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/10/26/big-data-brain-drain/

Software Carpentry: https://software-carpentry.org

Data Carpentry: http://datacarpentry.org

Reproducible Science Hackathon, December 2014: https://github.com/Reproducible-Science-Curriculum

STAT 545: http://stat545-ubc.github.io

Slides from Hadley Wickham's talk in the Simply Statistics Unconference

2014-08-17 NYT article For Big-Data Scientists:, 'Janitor Work' Is Key Hurdle to Insights by Steve Lohr

Data carpentry blog post by David Mimno (response to NYT article re: janitor work)

Data Science Degrees – Analyzed and Visualized: http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/07/data-science-degrees-analyzed.html

Data Science Bootcamp Programs http://yet-another-data-blog.blogspot.ca/2014/04/data-science-bootcamp-landscape-full.html

Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/jhudatascience

50 years of Data Science by David Donoho: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23421017/50YearsDataScience.pdf

Data Science: The End of Statistics? by Larry Wasserman: https://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/data-science-the-end-of-statistics/

Data science: how is it different to statistics? by Hadley Wickham: http://bulletin.imstat.org/2014/09/data-science-how-is-it-different-to-statistics%E2%80%89/

Data Science, Big Data and Statistics — can we all live together? by Terry Speed: http://www.chalmers.se/en/areas-of-advance/ict/calendar/Pages/Terry-Speed.aspx