What do Netflix recommendations, early cancer detection, predicting flood risks, Formula 1 strategy, and reducing food waste all have in common? They are all problems being tackled using data science.
Data Scientists work in many areas, helping others to extract information and understanding from data.
In this subject taster session,
Dr Julian Stander and
Dr James P Edwards will present a brief sample lecture in which some standard data visualization techniques are introduced to provide insights about a medical data set.
Standard data analysis techniques are great at predicting frequently occurring events, but have you ever thought about how to understand events that occur infrequently such as severe winter storms or very high summer temperatures? We will showcase a cutting-edge data science technique called “Extreme Value Theory” by walking you through a student’s project modelling extreme solar flares – and describe a surprising coincidence that brought their project under a (sun)spotlight.
