Research Questions in Data Science

Abstract

The types of research questions we face in medicine, technology, and business continue to increase in their complexity with our growing ability to obtain novel forms of data. Much of the data in both observational and experimental studies is gathered over lengthy periods of time with multiple measures collected at intermediate time points. Some of these data are streaming (such as posts on Twitter), images, DNA sequences, or electronic health records. Statistical learning methods must be developed and adapted for these new challenges.