Summer School on Big Data Information Visulisation July 8th - 12th, 2013 #BigDataInfoVis Organisers Aaron Quigley – SACHI, School of CS, University of St Andrews [email protected]or @aquigley Adam Barker - Big Data Lab, School of CS, University of St Andrews [email protected]or @lordbarker
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Summer School on Big Data Information Visulisation
July 8th - 12th, 2013 #BigDataInfoVis
Organisers Aaron Quigley – SACHI, School of CS, University of St [email protected] or @aquigley Adam Barker - Big Data Lab, School of CS, University of St [email protected] or @lordbarker
• Scotland has: 9% of UK population, 16% of 4* research outputs, 20% of research council grants
• SICSA capitalises on that - http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/
• a collaboration of all 14 schools of computer science and informatics in Scotland, 750 academics and 790 PhD students
• St Andrews is a founding member and one of the 3 SICSA host institutions
• SICSA supported activities:
• education, scholarships, summer schools, research themes, research, interaction with industry, outreach, funding, funding to early stage and early career researchers.
• ..... to all of our speakers for coming from near and far to present this week
• ..... to Amazon for $4,000 of credits, to brightSolid and SkyScanner for access to their datasets
• ..... to all the members of SACHI, the St Andrews Computer Human Interaction research group - both staff and students for their support and effort
• ..... to all the members of the Data Lab, the St Andrews Computer Human Interaction research group - both staff and students for their support and effort
• ..... to all of our local administrators and technical support staff who helped in preparing for this summer school and who will help during this week
• ..... to all the instructors of this summer school from across SICSA
• ..... to you, our participants for applying and joining us at this summer school!
• 4.50 – 5, Professor Sheelagh Carpendale (University of Calgary, Canada), Overview of InfoVis sketching session on Tuesday
• 5.00 – 5.30, Fast foot session (students overview their projects)
• 6.45 – 7.45, Rónan McAteer (Watson Solutions Development IBM Ireland) Cognitiv e Com puting : Watson ’s path from Jeopardy to real-world Big (and dirty) Data
• 8pm Welcome Dinner Reception in Zizzi’s on South Street for all registered students and guest lecturers.