Statistics and Data Science

Vagelos Education Center

Below are the slides from my talk today at Columbia University at a session, Philosophy of Science and the New Paradigm of Data-Driven Science, at an American Statistical Association Conference on Statistical Learning and Data Science/Nonparametric Statistics. Todd was brave to sneak in philosophy of science in an otherwise highly mathematical conference.

Philosophy of Science and the New Paradigm of Data-Driven Science : (Room VEC 902/903)
Organizer and Chair: Todd Kuffner (Washington U)

1. Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech) “Your Data-Driven Claims Must Still be Probed Severely”
2.  Ian McKeague (Columbia) “On the Replicability of Scientific Studies”
3.  Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard) “Conducting Highly Principled Data Science: A Statistician’s Job and Joy