When: Thursday 15th September 2016, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: At this BRAG meeting, Jagath and Nick will be presenting: Jagath will be presenting on Bayesian design for Copula models Nick will be presenting on visualisation techniques for data cleaning We look forward to seeing you there! Kind regards, Leah and Ace
When: Thursday 1st September 2016, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: This fortnight at BRAG, it is your chairs’ turn to present. – Ace will be presenting on SQL and makefiles – Leah will be giving a brief intro to SMC in R Looking forward to seeing you there! Kind regards, Ace and Leah
Due to the increased interest in Bayesian statistics, a decision has been made to change Bayes on the Beach from an annual to a biennial meeting, to coincide with the alternate year from ISBA and SSA. As a result BoB has been deferred to 2017. A claim the date notice will be issued early in…
When: Thursday 18th August 2016, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: At this Thursday’s BRAG meeting we will have presentations from Earl and Aleysha: Earl will be presenting on tips and shortcuts for deriving the full conditional posterior distributions, with examples for specific situations (e.g. regression models, truncated distributions, etc.) Aleysha will be presenting on a…
When: Thursday 4th August 2016, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: This fortnight we have presentations on the following interesting topics: Matt will be presenting on Bayesian Variable Selection with Group Structure Amy will be presenting on Sentiment Analysis We look forward to seeing you there! Kind regards, Leah and Ace
Bayes on the Beach 2016 Monday 7th to Wednesday 9th November 2016 Mantra Legends, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast You are warmly invited to a meeting of people involved or interested in Bayesian Research and Applications. Bayes on the Beach 2016 is the 12th International Workshop for the Australasian chapter of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) and…
When: Thursday 21st July 2016, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: Our first scheduled talks begin tomorrow, presented by Jessie and Mahasen. We have made the schedule available online at the link below. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting! Kind regards, Leah and Ace https://wiki.qut.edu.au/display/brag/BRAG+Presentation+Schedule.
MOOC Watch: Free online course explains big data. Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is repeating four free courses on big data with the UK-based massive open online course (MOOC) provider FutureLearn. Our first ever Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on Big Data attracted more than 40-thousand enrolments for the four courses combined. These courses are designed…
Notes from Kerrie Mengersen’s 2 day short courses on: Bayes for Beginners and Intermediate Bayes are now available. See our new tab: Courses
PhD Scholarships in Bayesian Learning for Decision Making in the Big Data Era QUT is one of Australia’s most valuable contributors in research and provides quality-assured research solutions for industry, government, and the non-profit and community sectors. The Statistical Science Discipline within the Mathematical Sciences School, Science and Engineering Faculty at Queensland University of Technology…
Virtual reality helps protect Amazon Jaguars: Amazon Jaguar Project Attracts Worldwide Attention Professor Kerrie Mengersen led a team into the Amazon jungle in Peru late last year. The aim of the project was to combine mathematical statistical modelling with new, virtual reality technology in an effort to track and, hopefully, save the jaguar population in Peru. Kerrie…
When: Thursday 7th July 2016, 15:00-16:00. Location: GP-H405 Guest speaker Andreas Futschik presenting at 3pm This Thursday we have guest speaker Andreas Futschik presenting at 3pm, which will replace our standard BRAG meeting for the fortnight. We will start our new BRAG presentation schedule next fortnight. Andreas Futschik (JKU Linz Austria) will be giving a talk this…
