New book now out: Information Quality

InfoQ book (available as hardcover and ebook)

I'm excited to announce that our book Information Quality - The Potential of Analytics to Generate Knowledge (with Ron Kenett) is finally out just in time for the new year. The book introduces the Information Quality (InfoQ) framework, which is useful for evaluating the potential or usefulness of a dataset for answering a specific question or goal, given the use of data analysis (statistical modeling, data mining, etc.). It is also useful for evaluating studies that use data analysis.

Interview on Analytically Speaking

Next week I'll be headed to SAS headquarters in Cary, NC for an interview on Analytically Speaking. I look forward to Anne Milley's thought-provoking questions! The announcement promises to walk through several of my research areas:

Just published: "Analyzing Behavioral Big Data: Methodological, Practical, Ethical, and Moral Issues"

My paper (with discussion by 4 sets of authors and a rejoinder) that just came out in Quality Engineering, is aimed at introducing the community of industrial statisticians to the different challenges, opportunities and issues in analyzing "Big Behavioral Data" (BBD).

Talk on Behavioral Big Data @ Waterloo (Canada) on Tuesday

I'll be delivering a plenary talk on Analyzing Behavioral Big Data: Methodological, Practical, Ethical, and Moral Issues at the Stu Hunter Research Conference, in Waterloo, Canada. The talk will be on Tuesday, 9:00-10:30am, followed by two discussants (Discussants: Roger Hoerl, Union College; Kwok Tsui, City University of Hong Kong; Moderator: Maria Weese, Miami University), and discussion from the audience.

New Working Paper: Analyzing Behavioral Big Data

In preparation for my plenary talk at the Stu Hunter Research Conference next month, I have written the paper "Analyzing Behavioral Big Data: Methodological, Practical, Ethical, and Moral Issues", now available on SSRN. My talk will be followed by two discussants and hopefully a heated debate from the audience. If you have feedback on the paper or the topic, please email me!

Nature Methods piece on scientific replicability/repeatability/reproducibility

Nature Methods just published our correspondence piece Clarifying the terminology that describes scientific reproducibility (co-authored with Ron Kenett). We make three points:
1. There's confusion between the terms replicability, repeatability and reproducibility, which differ in meanings across and sometimes within fields.

"On Information Quality": seminar at Indian Statistical Institute

I'll present a talk "On Information Quality" at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata's Bayesian & Interdisciplinary Research Unit on February 19th (4:15pm at BIRU conference room, 4th floor of R.A. Fisher Bhavan).

Abstract:

Working on new "Information Quality" book, to be published in 2015

Ron Kenett and I are working on a new book titled "Information Quality: The Potential of Data and Analytics to Generate Knowledge", to be published by John Wiley & Sons in 2015.

"On Information Quality" accepted for publication at Journal of the Royal Statistical Society

On Information Quality is a paper that I co-author with Ron Kenett. Information Quality, or InfoQ, introduces a high-level analytics concept, asking the question about the potential of a particular dataset to answer the question of interest, given a particular data analysis.

"To Explain or To Predict?" accepted to Statistical Science

My paper "To Explain or To Predict?" has just been accepted to the journal Statistical Science. The working paper with the most recent version is available on SSRN.

Statistical Strategy