Date | Time | Event | Details |
12/6/17 | 11:30 am - 5:00 pm | Opportunities & Challenges of Citizen Science for Earth Observation | The South Hub and Secure World Foundation will co-host a workshop on the opportunities, research challenges, and best practices of citizen science for big data and Earth Observation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. Learn more here. This is the second workshop in a series; please see the first workshop video and materials here. |
12/07/2017-12/08/2017 | Data Corps Workshop | This workshop aims to bring together a wide range of stakeholders to discuss the vision and implementation of a Data Corps program. Approximately 50 stakeholder representatives from academia, local/state/federal government agencies, foundations, private-sector, international organizations, and nonprofits, will attend the 1.5-day workshop. Visit their website for more information. | |
12/13/2017-12/14/2017 | MetroLab Summit | MetroLab Network will be hosting their Annual Summit Dec. 13-14 (rescheduled from Sept. 13-15). The Summit will bring together leaders from local government, universities, industry, and non-profit to share, discuss, and present on the impact of data, analytics, and technology on local government. | |
11/9/17 | All Hub Transportation Data Challenge Finale | REGISTER NOW | |
11/20/17 | Trans-Atlantic Workshop on Public Private Partnerships for Big Data | The NSF Big Data Innovation Hubs will hold an invitation-only workshop in conjunction with the European Big Data Value Forum 2017, and in collaboration with the EU Big Data Value Association (BDVA), PICASSO Project, and INRIA. | |
11/7/17 | Webinar Series on Undergraduate Data Science Education - | Join the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a webinar series on undergraduate data science education. Two-Year Colleges and Institutional Partnerships | |
11/14/17 | Webinar Series on Undergraduate Data Science Education -Two-Year Colleges and Institutional Partnerships | Join the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a webinar series on undergraduate data science education. Two-Year Colleges and Institutional Partnerships | |
11/1/17 | Congressional App Challenge | High school age or younger students can register to create an original app for a mobile device, tablet, or computer. Visit the website for more information. | |
10/6/17 | 3:00-4:00 pm | Data Sharing & Cyberinfrastructure Working Group | We are relaunching our Data Sharing and Cyberinfrastructure Working Group as an All Hub working group, a collaboration across all four Big Data Hubs. Please join us for the kick off meeting! And welcome our new Chair: Niall Gaffney, TACC, South Hub, and Co-chairs: Christine Kirkpatrick, NDS, West Hub, and John Goodhue, NE Hub! |
10/18/17 | Noon-1:15 pm | South Hub Data Science Roundtable: Smarter Health & Our Future | Science is changing rapidly and new transdisciplinary approaches are resulting in transformative change across domains. Health and medicine have begun to embrace convergent approaches that involve expertise from non-traditional biomedical disciplines, such as computing and engineering. Informatics and analytics are especially poised to contribute to these changes by bringing sophisticated techniques to partnerships in the biomedical realm. This talk will cover some current advances and a vision for a future of smart health. |
10/24/17 | The Role of Citizen Science Observatories & Crowdsourcing Community in GEOSS | Co-hosted by the South Big Data Hub, Secure World Foundation, CREAF, and The Wilson Center, this workshop will explore the standards and best practices in managing crowd-sourced data, the linkages of citizen data to the Group on Earth Observations’ (GEO) Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) and its common infrastructure (GCI), and methods and tools to integrate citizens-generated data with scientific and big data. Visit the GEO Plenary Website for more info here and here, schedule and registration. | |
10/3/17 | Webinar Series on Undergraduate Data Science Education - | Join the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a webinar series on undergraduate data science education. Visit their website for more information. | |
10/10/17 | Webinar Series on Undergraduate Data Science Education - Inter-Departmental Collaboration and Institutional Organization | Join the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a webinar series on undergraduate data science education. Visit their website for more information. | |
10/17/17 | Webinar Series on Undergraduate Data Science Education - Ethics | Join the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a webinar series on undergraduate data science education. Visit their website for more information. | |
10/24/17 | Webinar Series on Undergraduate Data Science Education - Assessment and Evaluation for Data Science Programs | Join the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for a webinar series on undergraduate data science education. Visit their website for more information. | |
10/14/17 | Congressional App Challenge | High school age or younger students can register to create an original app for a mobile device, tablet, or computer. Visit the website for more information. | |
10/23/2017-10/24/2017 | Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Computing Research Symposium: Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs 2017 | The CCC Computing Research Symposium aims to illuminate current and future trends in computing and the potential for computing to address national challenges. The four themes will be Intelligent Infrastructure for our Cities and Communities, Security and Privacy for Democracy, AI and Amplifying Human Abilities, and Data Algorithms and Fairness. Visit their website for more information or view the livestream during the event. | |
9/28/17 | Microsoft Azure Training | Co-sponsored by Microsoft, the South Big Data Innovation Hub, and RENCI, this Azure workshop will familiarize researchers and data scientists with big data storage, machine learning and advanced analytics, cognitive intelligence, and container and batch services. Instruction is hands-on; participants will spend most of the day working on proctored labs. Visit the website to register. | |
10/2/17 | 1:30-4:30 pm | Amazon AWS Training | Co-hosted by Amazon and the South Big Data Hub, Accelerating Research in the Cloud with AWS: Use Cases and Trends, offers South Hub members the chance to discover AWS through a step-by-step deep dive into core services such as Compute, Storage, Database, and Networking. Seating is limited; register at the event website. |
9/8/17 | Noon-1:00 pm | All Hub Transportation Data Challenge Community Call | The first All Hub community call for the Autonomous or Connected Vehicles topic of the National Transportation Data Challenge will discuss "How might we leverage autonomous or enhanced vehicles to improve our constituents’ safety? How might we navigate technological, policy, and social considerations involved?" More information here. |
9/13/17 | 3:00-4:00 pm | National Transportation Challenge at MetroLab Summit | MetroLab Network will be hosting their Annual Summit September 13-15. The Summit will bring together leaders from local government, universities, industry, and non-profit to share, discuss, and present on the impact of data, analytics, and technology on local government. |
9/22/17 | Keeping Data Science Broad Webinar 2 | The webinar, Alternative Avenues for Development of Data Science Capacity, will highlight efforts that build data science education capacity outside of the context of traditional curricular program development. More details about the webinar will be posted soon on the webinar series webpage. | |
9/27/17 | Noon-1:15 ET | South Hub Data Science Roundtable: Role of Data Science in the Economy | Media reports showcase that we are in the midst of a Big Data revolution that will impact all of our lives. To date, much of the research around this revolution has focused specifically on Data Science; however, this roundtable will focus on the Data Economy. Read more here. Speakers: |
9/16/17 | Spark Saturday DC | This free event is hosted by a community of Spark enthusiasts to foster Big Data innovation in the DC area and support the fastest growing Big Data project, Apache Spark. Hear from industry experts who are actively contributing to and shaping the development of Apache Spark and successfully implementing Spark into production. Read more or sign up at their website. | |
9/23/17 | StatFest 2017 | StatFest is a one-day conference aimed at encouraging undergraduate students from historically underrepresented groups to consider careers and graduate studies in the statistical sciences. It includes presentations from established professionals, academic leaders, and current graduate students that will help attendees understand the opportunities and routes for success in the field. More information can be found at their website. | |
10/02/2017-10/03/2017 | HPCC Systems Summit Community Day | The 4th annual HPCC Systems Summit Community Day will be open to the public for the first time. The Oct. 2 pre-event workshop is ideal for those wanting to understand the powerful ECL programming language and open source system built for big data analytics. The Oct. 3 Community Day will showcase community-driven projects, with academic and industry members presenting their use cases and research projects. Visit their website for more information. | |
31/2017 | Keeping Data Science Broad Webinar 1 | The webinar, Data Science Education Programs in Traditional Contexts, will highlight data science undergraduate programs that have been implemented at teaching institutions, community colleges, universities, minority-serving institutions, and more. The goal is to provide case studies about data science programs being developed by primarily undergraduate serving institutions. Such institutions are crucial connectors in the establishment of a robust data science pipeline and workforce but they can have different constraints than large research-focused institutions when developing data science education programming. More details about the webinar will be posted soon on the webinar series webpage. | |
8/4/17 | Proposal Writing Course | Midwest Big Data Hub Steering Committee Members Greg Monaco (GPN) and Jennifer Clarke (UN-L) will present a short proposal writing course covering how to respond effectively to the NSF Big Data Hub Project Solicitation. The course consists of three classes. Registration is free, but required, and each class may be signed up for individually or all together. Each session will be recorded. | |
8/18/17 | Proposal Writing Course | Midwest Big Data Hub Steering Committee Members Greg Monaco (GPN) and Jennifer Clarke (UN-L) will present a short proposal writing course covering how to respond effectively to the NSF Big Data Hub Project Solicitation. The course consists of three classes. Registration is free, but required, and each class may be signed up for individually or all together. Each session will be recorded. | |
08/7/2017-08/11/2017 | Data Matters Short Course Series | Data Matters offers short courses on a wide range of data science topics of interest to working professionals, students, and faculty members. Anyone working to manage, share, analyze, and archive large or complicated data sets will find a course of interest to them. To learn about the courses or how to register, visit datamatters.org. | |
09/01/2017-09/03/2017 | Spark Bootcamp | Vendor agnostic Apache Spark course. Labs will run on Databricks Community Edition and will focus on Apache Spark functionality. To learn more about the classes, instructor, and how to register, visit their website. | |
7/14/17 | 8:30 am - 4:00 pm | Data-Driven Storytelling: A Deep Dive into Visualization Techniques | The American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellowship Big Data Affinity Group, in collaboration with the South Big Data Hub and West Big Data Hub, are making their data visualization and storytelling event available for virtual attendees. To learn more about the event, visit the website. |
7/13/17 | Applied Data Analytics Course Webinar | A team of researchers –Julia Lane (NYU), Frauke Kreuter (UMD) and Rayid Ghani (UChicago) - has built an innovative and successful training program on Applied Data Analytics using confidential administrative records. That program is designed for working professionals and PhD-level graduate students who are seeking a stronger foundation in data analytics with a particular focus on public sector challenges (dataanalytics.umd.edu). They are offering a third class that uses data on high need populations, starting in October. This webinar will provide more information. | |
07/27/2017-07/28/2017 | Visualization in Transportation Symposium | TRB's International Visualization in Transportation Symposium will be held later this month with a theme of "Visualization in Action." The symposium will explore opportunities and challenges of visualization entering mainstream use in the transportation field. Learn more or register at their website. | |
6/8/17 | 3:00-4:00 pm | Spoke Solicitation Webinar | The National Science Foundation has released a new solicitation designed to foster multi-sector collaborations among academia, industry, and government to address regional priorities. To learn more about the solicitation and to register for the webinar before midnight on Wednesday, June 7, visit their website. |
6/9/17 | 8:00 am - 6:30 pm | South Hub All-Hands Meeting | The South Big Data Innovation Hub is hosting its annual All-Hands Meeting at the Microsoft Chevy Chase Pavilion. The event will feature presentations by NSF and current Spoke projects, a fireside chat on collaborations in data science, and breakout sessions focused on new Spoke proposal team building. Space is limited, so register now. |
6/8/19 | 9:00 am - 1:00 pm | AI Catalyst for Government Transformation | This symposium on Artificial Intelligence details advances in AI, key agency missions that are being impacted, and AI research that matters to the public sector. The symposium will be held at Intel and is co-hosted by the South Hub. Visit the website for more information or to register. |
6/8/17 | 9:00 am - 5:00 pm | Microsoft Azure Training | The Azure workshop will familiarize researchers and data scientists with big data storage, machine learning and advanced analytics, cognitive intelligence, and container and batch services. Instruction is hands-on; participants will spend most of the day working on proctored labs. Each attendee will receive an Azure Pass with a $500 Azure credit that can be used up to one month after the workshop. This training is free if you register through the South Hub invitation. |
6/6/17 | Triangle Smart Cities Summit | The first Triangle Smart Cities Summit will bring together local city, industry, and academic leaders for engaged discussion and to share ideas to help make the Triangle region a smarter and more connected community. Mayors, industry and academic executives, and national leaders in the smart cities movement will discuss the biggest challenges they face and their current efforts and vision for making the Triangle a smart region. The event is accepting posters showcasing smart cities research. Those interested in displaying posters should complete this form no later than June 2. To learn more about the event, visit their website. | |
06/13/2017-06/15/2017 | iRODS User Group Meeting | The integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) is an open source data management software used by research organizations and government agencies worldwide. The ninth annual iRODS UGM will host 25+ presentations from the user community and the core development team, including use case presentations, live demos, and open discussions about requested iRODS features. To learn more about iRODS or register for the UGM, visit their website. | |
06/19/2017-06/20/2017 | Trans-Atlantic Symposium on Technology & Policy for a Smart Society | The Symposium will cover the spectrum from research assessments via commercialization opportunities to policy issues in information and communication technologies such as 5G networks, Big Data, and the Internet of Things (IoT)/cyber-physical systems. Comprising a combination of plenary and parallel sessions, the symposium will set focus on impacts for a smart society and related industry sectors. Presenters will include NSF Senior Data Science Adviser Dr. Chaitan Baru and the Big Data Hub Executive Directors. To learn more or register to attend, visit their website. | |
06/28/2017-06/29/2017 | Fraud Analytics for Government 2017 | Whether dealing with improper payments that have already been awarded or trying to find potential fraud as it happens, data holds the answers for many questions. Join the conversation and hear from leading government thought leaders, forensic investigators, and examiners as they share real-world examples of fraud analytics in action. To learn more or register, visit their website. | |
05/02/2017-05/03/2017 | National Transportation Data Challenge | The four Big Data Innovation Hubs are excited to launch the National Transportation Data Challenge with a diverse and dynamic group of participants - including cloud computing leaders, nonprofit organizations, former Governor Christine Gregoire, and Daniel Morgan, the Chief Data Officer of the U.S. Department of Transportation. RSVP on Eventbrite for the sessions you plan to attend. Not able to get to Seattle? Choose the "Livestream Only" ticket in Eventbrite. | |
5/2/17 | 1:00-3:00 pm | Amazon Open Data in the Cloud: Lunch and Learn | As part of the National Transportation Data Challenge, Amazon is holding a Lunch and Learn session. Attendees will learn how the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission uses Amazon S3 to make over 1 billion trip records publicly available and how Amazon Athena can be used to query those records in seconds. Amazon will also share how Amazon Athena can now be used to query OpenStreetMap. The demos will be followed by an open discussion about sharing large datasets in the cloud and guidance on how participants can receive promotional credits to experiment with AWS on their own. |
5/24/17 | Noon-1:15 pm | South Hub Data Science Roundtable: Data Science at the Nexus of Environment and Health | Panelists will discuss some of the pragmatic challenges associated with data science at the intersection of health, the environment, and mobile health (mHealth). For example, panelists will cover some of the emerging opportunities to use data science to improve ontologies, to establish pervasive and persistent connections to biomedical data sources including Electronic Health Records and mobile health data, and to model systems that link genotypes, phenotypes, and disease hypotheses. |
6/2/17 | Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs and Spokes Workshop | Held in conjunction with the 31st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, the NSF Big Data Hubs will hold a full-day event to allow interested parties to learn more about the BD Hubs and Spokes, especially how to become involved in their activities. To learn more about this workshop and how to attend, visit their website. | |
5/3/17 | Noon-1:00 pm | NCDS DataBytes Webcast: Visualization for Data Science | An analyst's data science toolbox is incomplete without visualization skills. This talk will explore the landscape of visualization for data science - using visualization for data exploration and communication, reproducible approaches to visualization, and how to develop better instincts for visualization choice and graphic design. |
5/4/17 | Grand Challenges for Environmental Engineering & Science in the 21st Century | First Public Meeting | To help guide the next generation of environmental engineers and scientists, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has appointed a committee of experts to conduct a study on Grand Challenges and Opportunities for Environmental Engineering and Science for the 21st Century. The first public meeting around the study will be held in Washington, DC and also on the web on Thursday, May 4. Register to the attend the event, sign up for email updates on the study website, and discuss the study on Twitter using #GrandChallenges. | |
5/23/17 | 8:00-11:30 am | Digital Transformation for Life Sciences - Adopting Hybrid IT Workshop | This workshop will be held at the 2017 Bio-IT World Conference and Expo. Speakers will discuss how groundbreaking innovations in adoption and deployment are having a transformational impact in life sciences. Topics will range from adopting mobile clinical data acquisition platforms to ensuring that the latest hybrid compute platforms meet compliance and performance expectations. Visit their website for more information and to register. |
04/07/2017-04/08/2017 | Southern Data Science Conference and Deep Learning Training | The Southern Data Science Conference will be held in Atlanta this week on Friday, April 7. The conference is a sold out one-day event where data science pioneers nationwide will share their most recent research and development in the data science field. In addition to the conference day, a Deep Learning Training will occur on Saturday, April 8. Registration is separate from that of the conference. Career Builder, Macy's, the Georgia Tech Institute of Data Engineering and Science, Lexis Nexis, Datacamp, and Datadigital.io are co-sponsors of this event. The South Hub is a proud partner and member of the Southern Data Science Advisory Board. | |
4/13/17 | Noon-1:15 pm | South Hub Data Science Roundtable: Data Science Challenges for Cancer Immunotherapy | New cancer immunotherapies are providing fresh hope to patients who previously had few treatment option. However, immuno-oncology exists at the intersection of oncology, immunology, and molecular biology, each of which bring significant data science challenges. This panel will discuss how we can navigate questions of data management, sharing, privacy, and more in order to best take advantage of the opportunities offered by this promising field. Speakers: |
4/18/17 | Smart Grid Workshop | Texas A&M University in College Station, TX, a South Hub Spoke grant recipient, is holding a hands-on workshop on the theme of Smart Grids Big Data: The Next Steps. If you would like to attend the workshop, please register here. To help plan the working groups, including the Global Network for Synchrophasor Solutions consortium effort, please contact Dr. Mladen Kezunovic. | |
04/26/2017-04/27/2017 | The Internet of Things for Smart & Connected Cities & Campuses Workshop | The South Hub will be hosting a workshop at Georgia Tech on Challenges in Data Analytics and Decision-making from Distributed Sensors in order to collect practitioner input into the problems surrounding the use of data coming from distributed sensors in the context of smart cities and smart campuses. For more information and free registration, visit our website. | |
4/28/17 | 3:00-4:30 pm | Data Sharing and Infrastructure Working Group | Join WebEx here | Meeting number: 310 282 152 | Password: mcYte242 |
04/19/2017-04/22/2017 | IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) | The annual IEEE ICDE Conference addresses research issues in designing, building, managing, and evaluating advanced data-intensive systems and applications. It is a leading forum for researchers, practitioners, developers, and users to explore cutting-edge ideas and to exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. The 33rd ICDE will be held in San Diego, CA. Register here. | |
5/1/17 | Roundtable on Data Science Post-Secondary Education | The third meeting and webcast of the Roundtable on Data Science Post-Secondary Education - which will focus on "Data Science Education in the Workplace" - will take place at the Pew Research Center. For more information, including recordings of previous meetings and registration information for this event, visit their website. | |
5/4/17 | Grand Challenges for Environmental Engineering & Science in the 21st Century | First Public Meeting | To help guide the next generation of environmental engineers and scientists, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has appointed a committee of experts to conduct a study on Grand Challenges and Opportunities for Environmental Engineering and Science for the 21st Century. The first public meeting around the study will be held in Washington, DC and also on the web on Thursday, May 4. Register to the attend the event, sign up for email updates on the study website, and discuss the study on Twitter using #GrandChallenges. | |
3/9/17 | Noon-1:15 pm | South Hub Data Science Roundtable: Anti-Social Computing - Bots, Lies, & the New Information Environment | Social media, online news, blogs, etc. - combined with widespread access to the Internet from multiple devices - are creating a new information environment. In this environment, the norms of social interaction, conversation, public discourse, and news reporting are being rewritten. Trolls and bots can shape conversation, shift discourse, and build bridges among groups who might not otherwise connect. The panel will explore how fake news can spread and discuss the role of different types of actors in creating, spreading, countering, and monitoring such news. Speakers: |
3/11/17 | Analytics Forward | Analytics Forward is an unconference by and for analytics professionals which is co-sponsored by the South Hub. Spend a Saturday at the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina campus learning about the latest techniques, trends, and tools in analytics. Learn more and register on their website. | |
3/31/17 | 3:00-4:30 pm | Data Sharing and Infrastructure Working Group | Join WebEx here | Meeting number: 310 282 152 | Password: mcYte242 |
2/3/17 | 3:00-4:30 pm | Data Sharing and Infrastructure Working Group | This working group is hosting a series of demos of key components for a federated system, and through a testbed, will demonstrate integration of iRODS, NDS Labs, XSEDE, and other services and resources. |
2/10/17 | Noon-1:30 pm | Health Community Call | Speaker: |
2/15/17 | Noon-1:30 pm | South Hub Data Science Roundtable: Applying Intelligence Augmentation to the | The ability to combine quantitative and qualitative analytical methodologies to diverse patient information provides the opportunity to identify and classify patients suffering from a rare disease based on their medical history and response to treatment. |
2/16/17 | 1:00-2:00 | VITAL Series: Learning Data Analysis | Join the last open panel discussion in the VITAL data series if you are a researcher or company working on machine learning in any sector. We will be discussing machine learning, deep learning, spatial temporal data, time-series data, and more. Join the conversation at our Community Hackpad. |
2/17/17 | 3:00-4:30 | Data Sharing and Infrastructure Working Group | Join WebEx here | Meeting number: 310 282 152 | Password: mcYte242 |
1/11/17 | Noon-1:30 pm | South Hub Roundtable | The roundtable will explore translational data analytics for environmental health related to sensors, cloud computing, and patients. |
1/13/17 | Noon-1:30 pm | Smart and Connected Cities Community Call | Speakers: |
1/19/17 | 1:00-2:00 pm | VITAL Series: Audio Data Analysis | Join this open panel discussion if you are a researcher or company working on audio data in any sector. We will be discussing topics like 3D audio, speech recognition, and more. This is a two-way discussion, so tell us about yourself. |
1/19/17 | Washington DC Area Apache Spark Interactive | Sponsored by Intel, WeWork, and the South Hub, this meetup event will feature A State of the Union Panel Discussion on Apache Spark and Big Data Innovation in the U.S. To learn more about the event or register, visit their website. | |
1/20/17 | 3:00-4:30 | Data Sharing and Infrastructure Working Group | This working group is hosting a series of demos of key components for a federated system, and through a testbed, will demonstrate integration of iRODS, NDS Labs, XSEDE, and other services and resources. |
