Too much information? Large datasets and chance events: Jo Røislien at TEDxOslo 2013

Jo Røislien has a PhD in statistics and works in medical research. He had his own mathematics TV series "Siffer" on national broadcaster NRK1, and was the first Norwegian presenter on Discovery Channel. He will talk to us about the dangers of datamining and what large datasets can and cannot tell us. They can trick us into seeing things that are not there, and the paradox with large dataset is that we need to be more critical to our findings than in smaller datasets. In other word he will show us new sides of big datasets.

[davidmichaelbarnish]

Helps explain cognitive dissidence quite nicely as well.

[annasan]

i need to know this. thanks… great presentation.