Friday, June 23, 2017 | 2:00pm-3:30pm | Room 339, HSBC Business School Building

Abstract

Data Science has become one of the most rapidly growing interdisciplinary fields. It combines computer science, statistics and domain knowledge in a particular application that enables us to extract actionable information from the data. Through case studies we take you to the frontier of this area! The presentation is non-technical and accessible to the general audience.
 
Case Studies:
·         Sirius Radio/Amazon-MTURK: Business Radio powered by the Wharton School was launched in January 2014. How many listeners do we have?
·         Lending Club: A rapidly growing online peer-to-peer lending marketplace. Over $87,000,000,000 loans were issued in 2016. We share their successful story with you and go further. With a detailed study we show you how statistics/data mining can be a powerful tool in real life!
·         Google Flu and Online CPI are cases where online big data comes in to play.