Time: Thursday 5th March 2015, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: BRAG Journal Club: Please find attached your reading material for BRAG Journal Club. Presenters: Jannah Baker and Dan Kennedy Spatial Interaction and the Statistical Analysis of Lattice Systems by Julian Besag bym-1974.pdf It is a fundamental Bayesian paper introducing the concept of spatial smoothing…
How far would you go to find the answers you’re looking for in your research? For ACEMS (and BRAG) student Nicholas Tierney, it was 500 metres below ground! Nick travelled to Parkes, NSW with ACEMS Deputy Director Kerrie Mengersen. As part of his PhD project at QUT, he met with health and safety professionals at…
FameLab is one of the world’s leading science communication competitions. It aims to find, develop and mentor young researchers in communicating their science, adhering to the basic rules of No Powerpoint, No lab coats and No jargon. You have 3 minutes to pitch your research. If you are chosen as a FameLab Australia National Finalist,…
IFE Distinguished Visitor Lecture Multi-Armed Bandit Experiments in the Online Service Economy Dr Steven Scott (Google) Tuesday 24 February, 2.30–3.30 pm The Forum (P419), Level 4, P Block, QUT Gardens Point (map) Please register to attend (if you haven’t already). OVERVIEW The modern service economy is substantively different from the agricultural and manufacturing economies that…
Statistical Modelling and Analysis of Big Data Workshop 2015 February 23rd 2015 Location: Garden’s Theatre, QUT Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane REGISTRATION: Free, but you must register by Thursday 12 February. Spaces are limited and registrations will be on a first come, first served basis. Please only register if you are sure that you will attend. REFRESHMENTS: Light morning and afternoon…
BRAG Research Masters student Amy Cook leads a team into the semi-finals of a world wide big data analytics competition developing a recommendation engine for online sales. More from Amy below: After a few years as a structural Engineer, and embarking on a masters in data science, the opportunity to participate in a big data…
The International Environmetrics Society (TIES) and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) will be jointly hosting two short courses on February 2-4, 2015 at the QUT Gardens Point Campus. The two courses are: • Advanced R for Environmental Scientists • Practical Bayes for Beginners. Places are limited and registrations will be processed in the order…
Title: Role of Statistics in Social Science: reflections on evidence and action. Date: Thursday, 29th January 2015; Time: 2:00pm – 4:00pm; Place: B Block, Level 2, Room B-240, QUT Kelvin Grove Campus RSVP: by 3pm Wed, 28th January: wilhelmina.ramakers@qut.edu.au Harvey is well known in the Bayesian world for his joint paper with David Spiegelhalter: League Tables and Their Limitations:…
Congratulations to Amy Cook and Yasin Abbasi – who have been shortlisted as one of the semi-finalists for the 2015 Hilti Big Data Analytics Competition. We wish you all the best with your presentation in late January. https://www.hilti.com/it-innovation-2015
WordPress Planning Meeting Time: Thursday 8th January, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-S502. Come along and find out how to update your profile on the BRAG WordPress. Bring your laptop and you can begin updating your profile in the meeting with Ben and Nick around to help. We will also conduct some brain storming as to what content…
Photos have now been added. November 10th – 12th 2014 Bayes on the Beach is an intentionally small international forum for discussing and exploring developments in Bayesian Statistics and its applications. This three day conference will take place at the Mantra Legends Hotel, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia, and is designed with a diverse and interactive format…
In this week’s BRAG meeting (Thursday @ 11am in P504), Matt Moores will be presenting a talk in our series on Bayesian statistics & Big Data: Big data & doubly-intractable likelihoods The widespread availability of high-resolution imagery has created a need for computational methods that scale to millions of pixels. We review and evaluate three Bayesian algorithms…
