Spencer Hall is a student with an idea that has the potential to save thousands of lives. His personal experience with Cystic Fibrosis and his knowledge of statistics have led him to believe that statistical analysis of DNA could be the key to eliminating some of life's deadliest diseases.

Spencer Hall is a fourth-year statistics major and philosophy minor. Hall plans to attend graduate school to pursue a master's degree in statistics with a concentration in bioinformatics. Hall has had firsthand experience with a chronic disease that could benefit from the application of bioinformatics. His talk will focus on how the enormous amount of genetic data available today is too large to be analyzed without statistical methods, and has consequences so important that we cannot afford not to study them.

This talk was delivered at a TEDx event in the TED conference format, but independently organized by a local community. For more information, visit http://ted.com/tedx

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