Do I Have To Teach?
Do I Have To Teach?
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A presentation for giving an overview of some industry applications of mathematics.On Github PieceMaker / presentation-math-apps
Do I Have To Teach?
Jonathan Adams
February 7th, 2016
What Can You Become?
- Teacher
- Doctor or Lawyer
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Analyst or Statistician
- Use logic and problem-solving skills
- Explore data
- Build models
- Make inferences
- Find optimizations
- Requires creativity
Data Analyst/Statistician
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Data Mining
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Make inferences from sets of data
- Forecast likely events
- Identify patterns
- Identify areas to be changed
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Examples
- Target predicting if a woman is pregnant
- Google predicting the severity of flu season
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Make inferences from sets of data
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Event Classification
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Something bad is happening. Is it an accident or is there a more serious problem?
- Hypothesis test and probability
- Determine results from samples, surveys, and tests
- Given existing experience, can we classify future events?
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Something bad is happening. Is it an accident or is there a more serious problem?
Clustering
- Clustering is a form of classification
- Group the data by minimizing some dissimilarity measure and assume data within group have same classification
- K-means is popular unsupervised clustering algorithm
- Requires two inputs: desired number of clusters $k$ and initial cluster centroids
- Can anyone catch the "error" in using this method?
- How might we go about solving this?
- What makes the irrigated different from the non-irrigated?
- How is a field typically planted?
- If the path goes back-and-forth, what might we expect?
- Could we not view the path as a time series?
Conclusion
- There are many jobs out there other than teaching
- People will pay you to solve problems all day
- A degree in math is only a toolset, you will have to get creative with it
- Never say no to a request
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Knowing a progamming language is vital!!!
- Python
- R
- SQL
- Google and StackOverflow are your friends!