Making Sense of Large Datasets: Perspectives Across the Sciences
Event: ConferenceDate: 20 Jun 2011 00:00
Start date: 20 Jun 2011 00:00
End date: 21 Jun 2011 00:00
Speaker(s): Murray Grant (University of Exeter), Jessie Kennedy (Napier University, Edinburgh), Alberto Cambrosio (McGill University), Alison Wylie (University of Washington), Wendy Parker (Ohio University), Karen S. Baker (Long Term Ecological Research Network, University of California, San Diego), Paul Schofield (University of Cambridge), Gail Davies (UCL), Jenny Reardon (University of Santa Cruz), Annamaria Carusi (Oxford), John Dupré (Egenis), Rachel Ankeny (University of Adelaide), Staffan Mueller-Wille (University of Exeter), Werner Callebaut (KLI), Sabina Leonelli (Egenis).
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Sponsored by:
International conference sponsored by Egenis and the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research (KLI).
Venue:
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Stocker Road,
University of Exeter,
Exeter,
EX4 4ND
Room: IAIS Lecture Theatre
Programme:
Monday 20 June
4:00 – 4:10
Welcome: John Dupré (Egenis) and Werner Callebaut (KLI)
4:10 – 4:30
Introduction: Making Sense of Large Datasets. Sabina Leonelli (Egenis)
4:30 – 6:00
Panel Discussion 1: Using Data in 21st Century Biology. Chair: Werner Callebaut
4:30 – 4:50
Paul Schofield (University of Cambridge): Sharing and caring; data integration in international large-scale mouse functional genomics
4:50 – 5:10
Murray Grant (University of Exeter): Enumerate and exposed! Drifting out of the comfort zone for the research pound
5:10 – 5:30
Jessie Kennedy (Napier University, Edinburgh): 'Integrating Diverse Sources of Scientific Data: Is it safe to match on names?'
5:30 – 6:00
Discussion
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Tuesday 21 June
9:30 – 11:00
Data Use in Biomedicine and Archeology. Chair: Jenny Reardon (University of Santa Cruz)
9:30 - 10:00
Alberto Cambrosio (McGill University): Patient samples, data, evidence and utility: resource management in biomedicine [paper authored by Pascale Bourret, Alberto Cambrosio, Peter Keating and Nina Kohli-Laven]
10:00 - 10:30
Alison Wylie (University of Washington): Mixed Masses of Data: Evidential Reasoning in Archeology
10:30 - 11:00
Discussion
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee
11:30 – 13:00
Data Use in Climate and Environmental Science. Chair: Gail Davies (UCL).
11:30 - 12:00
Wendy Parker (Ohio University): Some challenges of climate ‘data’
12:00 - 12:30
Karen S. Baker (University of California, San Diego): Growing Infrastructures for Data Use: An Ecological Site-Network Information Management Perspective
12:30 - 13:00
Discussion
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 16:00
Panel Discussion 2: Making sense of data – philosophical perspectives. With interventions from John Dupré (Egenis), Rachel Ankeny (University of Adelaide), Staffan Mueller-Wille (University of Exeter), Werner Callebaut (KLI), Annamaria Carusi (Oxford). Chair: Sabina Leonelli.
Further details:
For further information contact Sabina Leonelli or 01392 725 137.
This event is free and all are welcome. Spaces are limited. Please register with Laura Dobb or 01392 725 140.
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