Yihong Wu creates new tools for digging into data

Somewhere, buried deep inside mountains of information, awaits the human dimension of data. It's the small subset of material that, when properly selected, sheds light on something important, such as public policy or DNA sequencing. This is the scientific territory where Yihong Wu, a Yale assistant professor of statistics and data science, has set up shop. He's made it his mission to find communities and networks within high-dimensional data. " All scientific fields deal with data, and more of it pours in all the time. But it's not easy to make sense of it unless you do it in a principled, grounded way," Wu says. Wu is part of a wave of new faculty joining the Department of Statistics and Data Science, as Yale continues to weave data science into the fabric of campus research in all disciplines.