Big Data Workshop
Learn about how Big Data can impact your area of study.This event will provide a more global understanding of big data, how it is/can/should be used in analyzing complex challenges in basic and applied research. Faculty, graduate students and post docs are encouraged to attend; undergraduates and non-university professionals are also welcome. We encourage you to come and go as your time permits and hope to have a full house of interdisciplinary attendees there for the afternoon workshop. Lunch will be provided. Please register for this event by October 8, 2019
Agenda:
| Time | Title | Presenters |
| 8-8:10 a.m. | Welcome | Maureen Olewnik Coordinator, Global Food Systems OVPR/ORD |
| 8:10-9 a.m. | Keynote – Big Data Analytics from Satellite Imagery – An overview of entire processing chain for collection to analytics | Kumar Navulur |
| 9-9:30 a.m. | What makes up big data and why is it important? | William Hsu |
| 9:30-10 a.m. | Managing data for integration and reuse | Pascal Hitzler |
| 10-10:15 a.m. | Break |
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| 10:15-10:45 a.m. | Messy data modeling in agricultural systems | Nora Bello Associate Professor, Statistics College of Arts and Sciences |
| 10:45-11:15 | Big data issues in the monitoring and modeling of crops | Stephen Welch |
| 11:15-noon | Beocat challenges – What it can do today, what it can’t do today, and the future of big data computational needs | Dan Andresen |
| Noon-1 p.m. | Lunch and open discussion | |
| 1-2 p.m. | Keynote – Microsoft | Curtis Charles |
| 2-2:45 p.m. | Big Spatial Data | Shawn Hutchinson |
| 2:45-3:15 p.m. | Overview of the K-State Library’s big data resources and other big data expertise across campus | Carol Sevin |
| 3:15-3:30 p.m. | Break | |
| 3:30-4:15 p.m. | Break-out workshop | |
| 4:15-5 p.m. | Report out on discussions – open discussion |
