<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-js-title-editors-group" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px"><h2 class="gmail-u-text-light gmail-u-h1 gmail-js-special-issue-title gmail-js-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.333"><font color="#505050" face="NexusSans, Arial, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, Segoe UI Symbol, STIXGeneral, Cambria Math, Arial Unicode MS, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-weight:100">Dear all,</span></font></h2><div><font color="#505050" face="NexusSans, Arial, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, Segoe UI Symbol, STIXGeneral, Cambria Math, Arial Unicode MS, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-weight:100"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#505050" face="NexusSans, Arial, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, Segoe UI Symbol, STIXGeneral, Cambria Math, Arial Unicode MS, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-weight:100">Starts today (right now, actually) the 2018 World Meeting of the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA2018) with many very interesting sessions</span></font></div><div><font color="#505050" face="NexusSans, Arial, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, Segoe UI Symbol, STIXGeneral, Cambria Math, Arial Unicode MS, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-weight:100"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#505050" face="NexusSans, Arial, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, Segoe UI Symbol, STIXGeneral, Cambria Math, Arial Unicode MS, sans-serif" size="2"><a href="https://bayesian.org/isba2018/Program/">https://bayesian.org/isba2018/Program/</a>  <br></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:NexusSans,Arial,Helvetica,"Lucida Sans Unicode","Microsoft Sans Serif","Segoe UI Symbol",STIXGeneral,"Cambria Math","Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:NexusSans,Arial,Helvetica,"Lucida Sans Unicode","Microsoft Sans Serif","Segoe UI Symbol",STIXGeneral,"Cambria Math","Arial Unicode MS",sans-serif;font-size:small">A few sessions related to big data, machine learning:</span><br></div><div><font color="#505050" face="NexusSans, Arial, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, Segoe UI Symbol, STIXGeneral, Cambria Math, Arial Unicode MS, sans-serif" size="2"><div>Bayes, Machine Learning and Deep Learning<br></div><div>Lassos and horseshoes for the sparse Bayesian cowboy</div><div>Bayesian dynamic modeling for forecasting high-dimensional time series</div><div>Recent advances in tree based Bayesian inference, Science Theory and methodology</div><div>Bayesian methods for large and complex data</div><div><br></div><div>The theme appears in the whole May 2018 issue of Statistics and Probability Letters:</div><div>The role of Statistics in the era of big data<br></div><div>Statistics and Probability Letters</div><div>Edited by Laura Sangalli</div><div>Volume 136, Pages 1-170 (May 2018)</div><div><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/statistics-and-probability-letters/vol/136/suppl/C">https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/statistics-and-probability-letters/vol/136/suppl/C</a></div><div><br></div><div>Finally, I list a few interesting conferences on Forecasting/Econometrics/Causality in the large data, rich-environment context:</div><div><br></div><div><ul style="margin:4px 0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12.6px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:none outside;color:rgb(101,112,123);text-align:left;background-color:rgb(247,247,247);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><li style="margin:0px 0px 6px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:18px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/conferences/html/20180618_10th_ecb_workshop_forecasting.en.html" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,147,208);text-decoration:none;outline:0px">10th ECB Workshop on Forecasting Techniques: Economic Forecasting with Large Datasets</a><br style="margin-bottom:0px">The European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt, June 18-19 2018.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 6px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:18px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/cemmap%20Turing%20Workshop%20Programme.pdf" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,147,208);text-decoration:none;outline:0px">Machine Learning and Econometrics</a><br style="margin-bottom:0px">A cemmap Workshop jointly funded by The Alan Turing Institute, June 8-9 2018.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 6px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:18px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://www.mea.mpisoc.mpg.de/fileadmin/files/Lehre/Empirical_Economics_Workshop/Workshop_Programme_Participants_final_extern.pdf" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,147,208);text-decoration:none;outline:0px">Econometrics in the Castle: Machine Learning in Economics and Econometrics</a><br style="margin-bottom:0px">Munich, Germany May 29-30 2018.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 6px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:18px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://apps.olin.wustl.edu/conf/SBIES/Home/Default.aspx?pid=4" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,147,208);text-decoration:none;outline:0px">2018 NBER-NSF Seminar on Bayesian Inference in Eonometrics and Statistics (SBIES)</a><br style="margin-bottom:0px">Department of Economics, Stanford University, May 25-26 2018.</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 6px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:18px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~fdiebold/Warren2017/Main.html" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,147,208);text-decoration:none;outline:0px">Big Data in Predictive Dynamic Econometric Modeling</a><br style="margin-bottom:0px">University of Pennsylvania, May 18-19 2017.</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:18px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="http://www.nasonline.org/programs/sackler-colloquia/completed_colloquia/Big-data.html" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,147,208);text-decoration:none;outline:0px">Drawing Causal Inference from Big Data</a><br style="margin-bottom:0px">National Academy of Sciences , March 26-27 2015.</li></ul><br></div><div>Enjoy your week,</div><div>Hedibert</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br></div></font></div><div><font color="#505050" face="NexusSans, Arial, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, Segoe UI Symbol, STIXGeneral, Cambria Math, Arial Unicode MS, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-weight:100"><br></span></font></div><h2 class="gmail-u-text-light gmail-u-h1 gmail-js-special-issue-title gmail-js-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.333"><font color="#505050" face="NexusSans, Arial, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, Microsoft Sans Serif, Segoe UI Symbol, STIXGeneral, Cambria Math, Arial Unicode MS, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-weight:100"><br></span></font></h2><h2 class="gmail-u-text-light gmail-u-h1 gmail-js-special-issue-title gmail-js-title" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;line-height:1.333"><br></h2></div></div>