An "Extreme"ly interesting way to view data

If you can’t guess from the title this post is about Extreme Value Theory (EVT). Last week I attended a talk from Professor Jonathan Tawn on some EVT applications and Jenny Wadsworth on some theory in multivariate EVT. I found it particularly interesting as unlike most methods of analysing data we don't really care about the data which isn't surprising, instead we focus on modelling the tail ends and unlikely observations. »