Canisius College will host the Upstate Chapters of the American Statistical Association (UP-STAT) conference next week on Friday, April 22 and Saturday, April 23. Attendees and presenters from upstate colleges and universities and from Canada will be at the event. Friday’s schedule features five tutorials (listed below) the Father Haus Memorial Lecture and a panel discussion entitled “The Multiple Facets of Data Science.”
Richard De Veaux, PhD, a prominent data scientist and educator, will present the Father Haus Lecture, entitled “Modeling the Effect of Age in Human Performance.”
Please consider attending the tutorials and other conference events. Learn what is happening in the broad area of “big data.”
The schedule for Friday’s and Saturday’s tutorials is as follows:
- “A Gentle Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory” – by Ernest Fokoue
Friday 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – SH 1004
- “An Excursion into Modern big Data Concepts and Computational Models” – by Xingchen Yu
Friday 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – HO 109
- “Kaggle Predictive Analytics with Random Forests and Boosted Trees” – by Padraic Neville
Friday 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – SH 1013A
- “Analyzing Gravitational Wave Data from the LIGO Open Science Center” – by John Whelan
Friday 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – SH 1013B
- “Practical Natural Language Processing” – by Emily Prud’hommeaux
Friday 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – SH 1013B
- “Tidy Data Analysis in R with dplyr, ggplot2, and broom” – by David Robinson
Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – SH 1013A/B
Registration information can be found at http://www.up-stat.org/conference/Index/
For further information, contact Mel Crotzer, PhD, adjunct professor, mathematics and statistics, at Ext. 2879 or Leonid Khinkis, PhD, professor, mathematics and statistics, at Ext. 2498.
Submitted by: Mel Crotzer, PhD, adjunct professor, mathematics and statistics
