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Royal Society publishing photography 2024 competition winner
Posted in Statistics with tags blacktip reef sharks, drone, drone photography, hardyhead silversides, Indian Ocean, Maldives, predator-prey model, Royal Society, school of fish, scientific photography, social species on March 3, 2025 by xi'an
Bayes for good
Posted in Books, Mountains, pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Amnesty International, Australian Cancer Atlas, brain damage, cancer, capture-recapture, cardiac arrest, CHANCE, CIRM, coral reefs, Darfour, DeepMind, drone, Element AI, entity separation, Great Barrier Reef, hate speech, I.J. Good, image analysis, INLA, international justice, Jean Morlet Chair, Kerrie Mengersen, Kullback-Leibler divergence, Marseille, meta-analysis, Pitman-Yor process, PNAS, R-ladies, record linkage, Syrian civil war, twitter, variational Bayes methods on November 27, 2018 by xi'an
A very special weekend workshop on Bayesian techniques used for social good in many different sense (and talks) that we organised with Kerrie Mengersen and Pierre Pudlo at CiRM, Luminy, Marseilles. It started with Rebecca (Beka) Steorts (Duke) explaining [by video from Duke] how the Syrian war deaths were processed to eliminate duplicates, to be continued on Monday at the “Big” conference, Alex Volfonsky (Duke) on a Twitter experiment on the impact of being exposed to adverse opinions as depolarising (not!) or further polarising (yes), turning into network causal analysis. And then Kerrie Mengersen (QUT) on the use of Bayesian networks in ecology, through observational studies she conducted. And the role of neutral statisticians in case of adversarial experts!
Next day, the first talk of David Corlis (Peace-Work), who writes the Stats for Good column in CHANCE and here gave a recruiting spiel for volunteering in good initiatives. Quoting Florence Nightingale as the “first” volunteer. And presenting a broad collection of projects as supports to his recommendations for “doing good”. We then heard [by video] Julien Cornebise from Element AI in London telling of his move out of DeepMind towards investing in social impacting projects through this new startup. Including working with Amnesty International on Darfour village destructions, building evidence from satellite imaging. And crowdsourcing. With an incoming report on the year activities (still under embargo). A most exciting and enthusiastic talk!
