A Call for Participation in XSEDE Computing: Statisticians Needed for Big Data

摘要

In this age of Big Data, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported that statistics is cool. Yet, when it comes to high-performance computing (HPC), a necessary component in dealing with Big Data, the statistics community is still largely absent. ASA President Marie Davidian says "Mentions of statistics or statisticians were scant" in recent Nature and Science articles on data. Big Data are becoming synonymous with just "data" as more people use the term and data sets get bigger, but it is mostly the truly big data on big resources that make the news. "Statistical, mathematical, and computational sciences are a key to innovation and discoveries in this era of Big Data and observation," said Sastry Pantula, director of the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation (NSF). "NSF is making significant investments in advanced cyber infrastructure (ACI), and it is important for our communities to take advantage of facilities like XSEDE for their research and for training their undergraduate and graduate students."