Next generation of statistical tools to be developed for the big data age

Statisticians are developing new ways to interpret the unprecedented amounts of data being generated continuously all around us. Whether it is smart phones packed full of sensors measuring your health, location and the weather, or connected cars driving past roadside monitors measuring traffic volumes or air quality, or even thousands of sensors on individual oil wells, in the world of the ‘Internet of Things’ and ‘big data’ massive streams of information are now being generated and collected at an unprecedented scale.