Applied and computational statistics, especially related to learning/inferring latent representations and causal inference. Basically, there's a big complicate

Applied and computational statistics, especially related to learning/inferring latent representations and causal inference. Basically, there's a big complicated world out there, and the data we can collect about it using any fixed amount of human labor is really noisy, and so we need vastly better statistical techniques than are usually applied (see: p-hacking/NHST-worship) to help us figure out what the heck is going on. Example: http://www.isi.edu/people/gregv/practical_methods_discovering_meaningful_structure_complex_systems http://www.isi.edu/people/gregv/practical_methods_discoverin...