Statistics and Big Data at Google

Dr. Tim Hesterberg, Google

5:00-6:00pm Thursday, 3 November 2016, UC 310, UMBC

Google lives on data. Search, Ads, YouTube, Maps…they all live on data. Join Senior Quantitative Analyst (and Lady Statistician) Tim Hesterberg, as he shares stories about how we use data, how we’re experimenting to make improvements (yes, this includes your searches), and how we adapt statistical ideas to do things that have never been done before. This will be a general-audience, non-technical talk. No statistics background is needed!

Dr. Hesterberg previously worked at Insightful (S-PLUS), Franklin & Marshall College, and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. He received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University, under Brad Efron. Hesterberg is author of the “Resample” package for R and primary author of the “S+Resample” package for bootstrapping, permutation tests, jackknife, and other resampling procedures, is co-author of Chihara and Hesterberg “Mathematical Statistics with Resampling and R” (2011), and is lead author of “Bootstrap Methods and Permutation Tests” (2010), W. H. Freeman, ISBN 0-7167-5726-5, and numerous technical articles on resampling.

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