Advances in data science – a Africa interest event taking place on 2018-05-21 00:00:00 in United Kingdom
Join us for this two-day conference to discover recent developments in data science.
This year's meeting is jointly organised by Manchester's Data Science Institute and the Cathie Marsh Centre for Social Research and will explore some of the ways that data science can support societal wellbeing. Focusing on Gaussian processes, Deep learning, latent variable models, subspace learning, network models, spatio-temporal models and longituinal data, we will explore the ways in which these methodologies can be used to address challenges faced by those working in the key application areas:
- Conservation
- Criminology
- Demographics
- Discrimination / bias
- Global challenges
- Health
- Politics
- Security
- Social media
- Urban Planning
Speakers will include leading data scientists from industry and academia and there will also be the opportunity to submit abstracts for talks and posters. Talks will range from application-focused to advanced data science methodologies.
Confirmed speakers this year include:
- Professor Danielle Belgrave, Imperial College London and Microsoft
- Professor Philip Bourne, University of Virginia
- Dr Peter Burnap, University of Cardiff
- Dr Licia Capra, University College London
- Dr Ciro Cattuto, ISI Foundation
- Dr Toby Davies, University College London
- Dr Ciira wa Maina, Data Science Africa
- Dr Walid Magdy, University of Edinburgh
- Professor Jonathon Nagler, New York University
- Dr Louisa Nolan, Office of National Statistics
- Dr John Quinn, UN Global Pulse
- Dr Reka Solymosi, University of Manchester
The conference is being co-organised by:
- Professor Magnus Rattray (Data Science Institute/ University of Manchester)
- Professor Rachel Gibson (University of Manchester)
- Professor Mark Elliot (University of Manchester)
- Professor Neil Lawrence (Amazon)
- Dr Suzy Moat (University of Warwick)
Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI)
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