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Exploratory Data Analysis at the UN
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Kim McFarlane <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:30:26 +0000
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This message has been sent on behalf of Jesica Rodriguez:

Dear Friends and Colleagues of the American Statistical Association:

On November 10th, the United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) is pleased to present an event on "Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)"in honor of Dr. John Wilder Tukey<http://stat-graphics.org/movies/prim9.html> who pioneered this technique. This area of statistical research is used in almost all statistical reports. EDA has been extended to theory and applications in Computer Science (AI and Machine Learning), Data Journalism, and Data Science.

Program:
*         8:30 Introduction from UN Office of Information and Communications Technology
*         9:00 Dr. Ed Binkowski : The Art of Data Analysis (Bio and Abstract)<https://unite.un.org/sites/unite.un.org/files/pictures/eda-event/Dr.%20Ed%20Binkowski.pdf>
*         9:35 Dr. Dianne Cook : An Exploratory Data Analysis of OECD's 2012 PISA Surveys<http://beta.icm.edu.pl/PISAcontest/>or Seven Things That Affect Education Around the World (Bio and Abstract)<https://unite.un.org/sites/unite.un.org/files/pictures/eda-event/Dr.%20Cook.pdf>
*         10:20 Dr. Michael Kane : An Exploratory Analysis of Text Trends in the G77 (Bio and Abstract)<https://unite.un.org/sites/unite.un.org/files/pictures/eda-event/Dr.%20Kane.pdf>
*         11:10 Mr. Peter Wang : Interactive Web Visualization With Bokeh<http://bokeh.pydata.org/> from Continuum Analytics<http://continuum.io/blog/tags/Bokeh> (Bio and Abstract)<https://unite.un.org/sites/unite.un.org/files/pictures/eda-event/Mr.%20Wang.pdf>
*         11:45 Mr. Karim Chine : ElasticR:<http://www.elasticr.com/> Connecting the Technological Dots of Scientific Computing and Data Analysis (Bio and Abstract)<https://unite.un.org/sites/unite.un.org/files/pictures/eda-event/Mr.%20Chine.pdf>

* Event times listed are in Eastern Standard Time

To participate remotely via Google+ Hangouts on Air :

https://plus.google.com/events/cj68mces4jggki4c7b4clvj7tak

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Mario Morales
R&D Statistician at the UN
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