Human Centered

From Big Data to Big Variables - Susan Holmes

Episode Summary

Susan Holmes, a Stanford professor of statistics and 2017-18 CASBS fellow, chats with host John Markoff about her applied work on the human microbiome, the difficulty with P-Values, the power of heterogeneous data, and her research on Claude Shannon - widely known as the father of information theory and himself a CASBS fellow in 1957-58.

Episode Notes

Susan Holmes' Stanford Page

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Claude Shannon, former CASBS fellow, and the "father of information theory"

CASBS

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Shout out to Barbie Mayock, CASBS dining program coordinator, for reading this episode's opening line!!