Abstract

More than 50 years ago, John Tukey called for a reformation of academic statistics. In ‘The Future of Data Analysis’, he pointed to the existence of an as-yet unrecognized science, whose subject of interest was learning from data, or ‘data analysis’. Ten to twenty years ago, John Chambers, Bill Cleveland and Leo Breiman independently once again urged academic statistics to expand its boundaries beyond the classical domain of theoretical statistics;…

There is an updated version (as of  September 28, 2015) of my presentation

‘A Statistician’s 'Big Tent' View on Big Data and Data Science’

at http://goo.gl/tiqLQs …