Data Science Club 17/03/16
17th March 2016
Co-Lab, Kilburn Building
Following on from excellent feedback from January’s event, researchers were once again invited to give a “lightning presentation” highlighting a data problem, solution, tool or database challenge. There were also updates on the Triangulum “smart city” project as well as discussions on data science training requirements and opportunities.
Agenda
| Welcome | |
| Triangulum | "Data From The Estate & The City"*– Prof Ian Cotton, Director, Manchester Energy |
| R users club | Dr Ralf Becker, Economics |
| Lightning talk presentations |
Zac Baker - "DataViewer: Exploratory data analysis and visualisation for multivariate datasets" Matt Sperrin - "Informative measurement process in routinely collected health data" Omar Costilla Reyes - “Pattern recognition in gait activities using a floor sensor system” Chiara Zuanni - "Understanding public perceptions through social media analysis" |
| Discussion and coffee | |
| Data Science Training | Aleksandra Pawlik |
| Help decide the UoM geo-technology infrastructure | Kamie Kitmitto, Research IT |
| Future plans |
*Data From The Estate & The City
Ian Cotton is the University Academic Lead for Sustainability. Making efforts to engage students with real-world challenges regarding the University estate and the wider City, he is working to expose data from a range of sources to students and staff for teaching / research purposes. Ian will present an overview of the data that is being gathered from the estate/city and pose challenges on the use of the data.