Andreas Buja

Andreas Buja
  • Liem Sioe Liong/First Pacific Company Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Data Science

Contact Information

  • office Address:

    325 Academic Research Building
    265 South 37th Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19104

Research Interests: data visualization, multivariate statistics, nonparametric statistics

Links: CV

Overview

Education

PhD, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), 1980

 

Academic Positions Held

Wharton: 2002-2021 (name Liem Sioe Liong/ First Pacific Company Professor, 2003).
Previous appointment: University of Washington, Seattle. Visiting appointment: Stanford University

Other Positions

Member, Technical Staff, Bellcore/Telcordia, 1987-94
Member, Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Labs, 1994-96
Technology Consultant, AT&T Labs, 1996-2001

Professional Leadership

Editor, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 1997-2001
Advisory Editor, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2001-present

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Research

Teaching

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  • STAT3990 - Independent Study

    Written permission of instructor and the department course coordinator required to enroll in this course.

  • STAT4700 - Data Analy & Stat Comp

    This course will introduce a high-level programming language, called R, that is widely used for statistical data analysis. Using R, we will study and practice the following methodologies: data cleaning, feature extraction; web scrubbing, text analysis; data visualization; fitting statistical models; simulation of probability distributions and statistical models; statistical inference methods that use simulations (bootstrap, permutation tests). Prerequisite: Waiving the Statistics Core completely if prerequisites are not met. This course may be taken concurrently with the prerequisite with instructor permission.

  • STAT5030 - Data Analy & Stat Comp

    This course will introduce a high-level programming language, called R, that is widely used for statistical data analysis. Using R, we will study and practice the following methodologies: data cleaning, feature extraction; web scrubbing, text analysis; data visualization; fitting statistical models; simulation of probability distributions and statistical models; statistical inference methods that use simulations (bootstrap, permutation tests). Prerequisite: Two courses at the statistics 4000 or 5000 level.

  • STAT7700 - Data Analy & Stat Comp

    This course will introduce a high-level programming language, called R, that is widely used for statistical data analysis. Using R, we will study and practice the following methodologies: data cleaning, feature extraction; web scrubbing, text analysis; data visualization; fitting statistical models; simulation of probability distributions and statistical models; statistical inference methods that use simulations (bootstrap, permutation tests). Prerequisite: Two courses at the statistics 4000 or 5000 level.

  • STAT9260 - Multivariate Analy: Meth

    This is a course that prepares PhD students in statistics for research in multivariate statistics and data visualization. The emphasis will be on a deep conceptual understanding of multivariate methods to the point where students will propose variations and extensions to existing methods or whole new approaches to problems previously solved by classical methods. Topics include: principal component analysis, canonical correlation analysis, generalized canonical analysis; nonlinear extensions of multivariate methods based on optimal transformations of quantitative variables and optimal scaling of categorical variables; shrinkage- and sparsity-based extensions to classical methods; clustering methods of the k-means and hierarchical varieties; multidimensional scaling, graph drawing, and manifold estimation.

  • STAT9610 - Statistical Methodology

    This is a course that prepares 1st year PhD students in statistics for a research career. This is not an applied statistics course. Topics covered include: linear models and their high-dimensional geometry, statistical inference illustrated with linear models, diagnostics for linear models, bootstrap and permutation inference, principal component analysis, smoothing and cross-validation.

  • STAT9950 - Dissertation

  • STAT9990 - Independent Study

    Written permission of instructor and the department course coordinator required to enroll.

Awards and Honors

  • Keynote speaker, Classification Society Conference, Milwaukee, WI, USA, 2013
  • Infovis best paper award for the article “Graphical inference for infovis” by Wickham, H., Cook, D., Hofmann, H., and Buja, A. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis’10)., 2010
  • Journal of Marketing, finalist for the Harold H. Maynard Award and featured blog article of the October Issue, 2007
  • Keynote speaker, SIAM Conference on Datamining (SDM06), Bethesda, MD, USA, 2006
  • Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2006
  • IMS Medallion lecture, Joint Statistical Meetings, New York, 2002
  • Keynote speaker, European Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Leiden, 1995
  • Fellow, American Statistical Association, 1994
  • Award Medal for diploma thesis in mathematics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1975

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Latest Research

Andreas Buja and Wolfgang Rolke (Work In Progress), Calibration for Simultaneity: (Re)sampling Methods for Simultaneous Inference with Applications to Function Estimation and Functional Data.
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Different Worlds: Do Recommender Systems Fragment Consumers’ Interests?

The rise of computer-driven recommendation systems designed to help consumers navigate a growing ocean of choice is prompting concerns that the hyperpersonalization of information sources will lead to harmful divisions throughout society. A new study on consumer purchasing patterns in the music industry suggests the opposite. The paper, by Wharton researchers Kartik Hosanagar, Andreas Buja and Daniel M. Fleder, is titled, "Will the Global Village Fracture into Tribes: Recommender Systems and their Effects on the Consumer." Read More

Knowledge at Wharton - 8/31/2011
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