Change Point Detection and Global Terrorism

In this interview from the Department of Statisti…

An episode of the UCL Minds podcast, hosted by UCL, titled "Change Point Detection and Global Terrorism" was published on April 27, 2023 and runs 37 minutes.

April 27, 2023 ·37m · UCL Minds

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In this interview from the Department of Statistical Science at UCL, we speak with Sam Tickle who is a Data Science Research Fellow at the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, based at the University of Bristol. We discuss Sam’s research in changepoint detection, his new method called OMEN and the study of the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) that inspired it, and some milestones of his career path into statistical science. For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/ Date of episode recording: 2023-04-27 Duration: 00:37:05 Language of episode: English Presenter: Omar Rivasplata Guests: Sam Tickle Producer: Nathan Green

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In this interview from the Department of Statistical Science at UCL, we speak with Sam Tickle who is a Data Science Research Fellow at the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, based at the University of Bristol. We discuss Sam’s research in changepoint detection, his new method called OMEN and the study of the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) that inspired it, and some milestones of his career path into statistical science. For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/statistics/ Date of episode recording: 2023-04-27 Duration: 00:37:05 Language of episode: English Presenter: Omar Rivasplata Guests: Sam Tickle Producer: Nathan Green

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