I gave a seminar at Stanford today. Slides are below. It was definitely the most intimidating audience I’ve faced, with Jerome Friedman, Trevor Hastie, Brad Efron, Persi Diaconis, Susan Holmes, David Donoho and John Chambers all present (and probably other famous names I’ve missed). I’ll be giving essentially the same talk at UC Davis on […]
I will be speaking at the Chinese R conference in Nanchang, to be held on 24–25 October, on “Forecasting Big Time Series Data using R”. Details (for those who can read Chinese) are at china-r.org.
I am teaching part of a short-course on Data Science for Managers from 10–12 October in Melbourne. Course Overview The impact of Data Science on modern business is second only to the introduction of computers. And yet, for many businesses the barrier of entry remains too high due to lack of knowhow, organisational inertia, difficulties […]
Last week I gave a talk in the Yahoo! Big Thinkers series. The video of the talk is now online and embedded below.
Many people ask me to let them know when I write a new research paper. I can’t do that as there are too many people involved, and it is not scalable. The solution is simple. Take your pick from the following options. Each is automatic and will let you know whenever I produce a new […]
For the next few weeks I am travelling in North America and will be giving the following talks. 19 June: Southern California Edison, Rosemead CA. “Probabilistic forecasting of peak electricity demand”. 23 June: International Symposium on Forecasting, Riverside CA. “MEFM: An R package for long-term probabilistic forecasting of electricity demand”. 25 June: Google, Mountain View, CA. “Automatic algorithms […]
I recently received an invitation to the JPMorgan Chase event below.Reaction 1: JPMC should stick to its business, which is business, working to maximize the shareholder wealth with which it is entrusted, leaving to others (like me) the "provision of d...
I’m speaking in the “Yahoo Labs Big Thinkers” series on Friday 26 June. I hope I can live up to the title! My talk is on “Exploring the boundaries of predictability: what can we forecast, and when should we give up?” Essentially I will start with some of the ideas in this post, and then discuss the […]
I’m currently attending the one day workshop on this topic at QUT in Brisbane. This morning I spoke on “Visualizing and forecasting big time series data”. My slides are here. The talks are being streamed. OVERVIEW Big data is now endemic in business, industry, government, environmental management, medical science, social research and so on. One […]
I’m currently visiting Taiwan and I’m giving two seminars while I’m here — one at the National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, and the other at Academia Sinica in Taipei. Details are below for those who might be nearby. Automatic Time Series Forecasting College of Technology Management, Institute of Service Science, National Tsing Hua University, […]
