La Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María invita a seguir la transmisión en vivo de la charla “The hearts and minds of Data Science”, que será dictada por la Dra. Cecilia Aragón, académica de la University of Washington. Esta actividad se realizará el martes 23 de agosto, desde las 12:00 hrs.
Descripción:
Thanks in part to the recent popularity of the buzzword “big data,” it is now generally understood that many important scientific breakthroughs are made by interdisciplinary collaborations of scientists working in geographically distributed locations, producing and analyzing vast and complex data sets. The extraordinary advances in our ability to acquire and generate data in physical, biological, and social sciences! are tran sforming the fundamental nature of science discovery across domains. Much of the research in this area, which has become known as data science or eScience, has focused on automated methods of analyzing data such as machine learning and new database techniques. Less attention has been directed to the human aspects of data science, including how to build interactive tools that maximize scientific creativity and human insight, and how to train, support, motivate, and retain the individuals with the necessary skills to produce the next generation of scientific discoveries. In this talk, I will argue for the importance of a human centered approach to data science as necessary for the success of 21st century scientific discovery. Further, I attest that we need to go beyond well-designed user interfaces for data science software tools to consider the entire ecosystem of software development and use: we need to study scientific collaborations interacting with technology as socio-te! chnical s ystems, where both computer science and social science approaches are interwoven. I will discuss promising research in this area, describe ongoing initiatives at the UW eScience Institute, including the US$37.8M Moore/Sloan Data Science Environment, and speculate upon future directions for data science.
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