Dear Graduates and Colleagues,
You are invited to participate in a study of "Big Data and its implications for the statistics profession and statistics education". The purpose of the study is to understand the needs of Industry and of Society regarding “big data” and its analysis. With the advent of the Internet, Social Media and the increasing need for the storage of and analysis of large datasets has come a range of new methods and techniques for the handling and analysis of such data. New disciplines have emerged on the boundary between mathematics, statistics and computer science. These include “data science”, “machine learning”, “statistical learning”, “data mining” and so on. Increasingly graduates are finding employment doing “data analytics”. Graduates from a diverse range of disciplines are working in these areas. This includes graduates in computer science, statistics, mathematics, marketing and actuarial science. Many different types of corporations and government organisations are interested in collecting, analysing and being able to retrieve data from large data sets. This includes financial institutions, retailers, the police, the Roads and Traffic Authority and many others. Much of the effort is directed towards the modelling of consumer behaviour and the targeting of marketing campaigns. This project is designed to investigate the needs of government, industry and society generally for appropriately trained analysts, and the extent to which the universities are providing the education needed in this area. The project is also designed specifically to investigate the extent to which statistical education has changed and may need to change in the future in response to this. The study is being conducted by Miss Busayasachee Puang-Ngern( busayasachee.puang-ng...@students.mq.edu.au) who is completing Master of Research Project in the Department of Statistics at Macquarie University under the supervision of Dr Ayse Bilgin and Dr Timothy Kyng (contact details: phone (61-2) 9850 8509 or (61-2) 9850 7289 and email ayse.bil...@mq.edu.au ortimothy.k...@mq.edu.au) We would appreciate if you could complete this survey and also pass the survey link on to any recent graduates in the data analytics workforce who may be willing to complete the survey. Please follow this link to the Survey if you are a graduate: https://mqedu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_5apM3YWkuI8mlgN Please follow this link to the Survey if you are an academic: https://mqedu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3yJclVNjvy6CZRX Follow the link to opt out of future emails: Click here to unsubscribe <https://mqedu.qualtrics.com/CP/Register.php?OptOut=true&RID=MLRP_2tr73eObsWGkTpb&LID=UR_2rU05KCrmBxF0Bn&BT=bXFlZHU&_=1> -- Dr Ayse Aysin Bombaci Bilgin Senior Lecturer Convenor of the Major in Decision Science Undergraduate Co-ordinator (Department of Statistics) Department of Statistics Faculty of Science Building E4A515 Macquarie University NSW Australia 2109 T: +61-2-9850-8509 F: +61-2-9850-7669 E-Mail: ayse.bil...@mq.edu.au www.stat.mq.edu.au CRICOS Provider No 00002J Please consider the environment before printing this email. This email (including all attachments) is confidential. It may be subject to legal professional privilege and/or protected by copyright. If you receive it in error do not use it or disclose it, notify the sender immediately, delete it from your system and destroy any copies. The University does not guarantee that any email or attachment is secure or free from viruses or other defects. The University is not responsible for emails that are personal or unrelated to the University’s functions.
