Dr. Max Roser, Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economics at the University of Oxford
With an introduction by Steven Pinker
On my web publication OurWorldInData, I am showing how living conditions around the world are changing. Visualized in graphs and maps, I present the empirical data on global development.
In this talk, I will discuss three examples of sparse signal detection problems in the context of binary outcomes. These will be motivated by examples from next generation sequencing association studies, understanding heterogeneities in large scale networks, and exploring opinion distributions over networks. Moreover, these three examples will serve as templates to explore interesting phase transitions present in such studies. In particular, these phase transitions will be aimed at revealing a difference between studies with...
