David Hand - Dark Data, what you don’t know, why it matters, what to do about it

Level 39
Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 06:30 PM
Until: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 - 08:30 PM
(Adjusted for timezone: Europe/London)
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Dark Data: what you don’t know, why it matters, and what to do about it

The gushing eulogies about the power of modern data science hide the truth that almost always data are incomplete, inaccurate, approximate, misleading or downright wrong, and that those missing dark data mean that your conclusions can be mistaken, and that your decisions and actions can be catastrophically, even fatally, wrong. This talk takes you beyond the data you think you have or would like to have, and examines the data you don’t have. It flips the world of data on its head to look at things from the opposite direction. It shows how to shine a light on dark data, presenting a taxonomy of the different kinds, revealing what was previously concealed, enabling you to draw accurate conclusions and take appropriate actions.

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David Hand is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and a Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College, London. He is a Chartered Statistician, an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a former President of the Royal Statistical Society. He is on the Board of the UK Statistics Authority and the European Statistical Advisory Committee and was for eight years the Chief Scientific Advisor to Winton Capital Management. He has received many awards for his work, including the Guy Medal of the Royal Statistical Society, the Box Medal from the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics, and the International Research Medal of the IFCS. He was made OBE in 2013. His 30 books include Principles of Data Mining, Measurement Theory and Practice, The Improbability Principle, The Wellbeing of Nations, and, most recently, Dark Data: Why What You Don’t Know Matters.

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