IPR Faculty and Graduate Student Affiliates
Institute for Population Research
presents
IPR Workshop: “Big Data”
Thursday, May 9, 2013
8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m
Room 02, Psychology Building (new section)
1835 Neil Avenue
There are still some seats available, so we've extended the registration deadline until May 5, 2013. OSU faculty, research staff, and graduate students who are interested in attending should contact Susan Pennington, pennington.41@osu.edu by May 5th for registration instructions.
Goal of Workshop: Population and health scientists increasingly have opportunitiesto analyze enormous amounts of data generated by internet activity, social media,administrative record-keeping, brain imaging, spatial tracking, etc. Workshop will touch on some of the key analytical challenges presented by “Big Data”.
Workshop Program
08:30 – 09:00 Coffee & bagels
09:00 – 09:15 Dan Sui [OSU Geography]: “Introduction”
09:15 – 10:30 Shashi Shekhar [U Minnesota]: “Big Data: Infrastructure, Analytics and Science”
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:00 Joseph Verducci [OSU Statistics]: “Reliable Discovery of Subpopulations in Big Data”
12:00 – 01:00 Lunch Break (please note: lunch will not be provided by IPR)
01:00 – 02:15 Randy Olsen [OSU Economics]: “Data: Almost Big vs. Almost Useful”
02:15 – 02:30 Break
02:30 – 03:45 Harvey Miller [U Utah]: “Big data and the future of social science research”
03:45 – 04:00 John Casterline & Jill Morris IPR: Funding Opportunities NIH, NSF
