Determining a Short List of Amazon Reviews using Statistical Text Analytics and Optimization Customers want to make informed purchasing decisions without a lot of effort. Online reviews can be helpful, but which reviews are worth reading? What we could say "Read these 3 reviews, they essentially contain the same information as all 4000 reviews."? Dr. Douglas Kline will present a method for selecting subsets of reviews that are similar to the set of all reviews, using document-term frequency analysis and…
Find out more »Join the UNC Program for Precision Medicine in Healthcare (PPMH) for a virtual mini-symposium on Wednesday June 30th from 1:00 to 2:45pm. At this interactive event, you will engage in discussion with leading Precision Medicine researchers at UNC. Presenters will explore the complex relationships between where people live and work and their health.
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Antiracist researchers combat inequality and racism by conceptualizing, implementing, and disseminating research that dismantles racism, oppression, discrimination, and structural inequalities. This presentation offers participants an opportunity to learn how to engage in antiracist research by presenting a counter-narrative to the traditional conceptualization and implementation of research with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). During our time together, the panelists will define antiracist research offer unique principles for conducting antiracist research present challenges the antiracist researcher will encounter offer practical…
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During this year's annual Carl Blyth Lecture, Dr. Christina Mack will be speaking on the use of Data Science in sports to protect athletes during the pandemic. Dr. Mack is an alumnus from UNC Public Health and currently serves as vice president of epidemiology and clinical evidence at IQVIA. She will reporting on much of the work she and her colleagues have done to guide the efforts of the NFL and NBA over the course of the pandemic. The UNC…
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The Hotelling Lectures are an annual event in the Department of Statistics & Operations Research at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, honoring the memory of Professor Harold Hotellin, their first chairman. This year, the STOR faculty and staff are honored to have Professor Bin Yu from the University of California at Berkeley deliver their two Hotelling lectures which are open to the public. Professor Bin Yu Departments of Statistics and Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences University of California at Berkeley…
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