Title: Be wary of data, which includes having too much of it: lessons from a fly

THURSDAY, JANUARY, 20, 2022 11:00AM-11:50AM

Abstract: This talk is aimed at early graduate students with a short introduction to data analytics and data visualization. The first
part of my talk provides some personally-curated examples from high-impact venues that show how partial data, poor data
sampling, or the authors’ methodology may have altered the final claims. I will also describe some challenges we face with
presenting data, in spite of the advanced software tools available. I will segue to discussing my own research related to optics,
where we overcome some limitations processing images with inspiration of a fly’s eye. In a nutshell, our work involves spectral
and multimodal analyses with data preprocessing, as much as possible. I will conclude by restating my opinions on how we can
move forward in this data-rich era, responsibly.