Workshop on Big Data for Social Policy

April 13 - 16, 2015, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Overview

The workshop will be organized around the following key topics, all focused on social problems and policy issues: urban analytics; privacy; official statistics; agent-based modeling and network models.

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Schedule

Monday, April 13th, 2015
08:30 to 09:00	Sallie Keller Welcome
09:00	Moving from the Sample Survey Paradigm to a Blended World with High-Dimensional Data Robert R. Groves
10:15 to 11:15	Big data, official statistics and survey science Mary E Thompson, University of Waterloo
11:15	Leveraging "big data" to improve official measures of health care: Lessons from a new Health Satellite Account for the US Ana Aizcorbe
13:30 to 14:30	A Suggested Framework for National Statistics Offices for Assessing the Quality of Big Data Hélène Bérard
14:30	The Value Chain and Impact of University Research: A Prototype for Modernizing Economic Statistics Ron Jarmin
16:00	Sample Matching: Toward a probabilistic approach for Web surveys and big data? Pierre Lavallée

Tuesday, April 14th, 2015
08:30	Using Correspondence Analysis to Attack Big Network Data Stanley Wasserman
09:45	Agent-Based Microsimulation of Urban Spatial Socio-Economic Processes: Current Status, Future Prospects and the role of Big Data Eric Miller
11:00	Agent-based Modeling and Big Data Jonathan Ozik
13:30 to 14:30	Cross - leveraging Systems, Data and Computational Science for Health Behavioural Insight Nathaniel Osgood
14:30	Insurgency Prediction Using Multiple High Volume Social Media Data Sources Gizem Korkmaz
16:00	Using Agent-Based Models for Social Policy - from LifePaths to THIM Michael Wolfson

Wednesday, April 15th, 2015
08:30 to 09:15	Making Large-Scale, Confidential Data Available for secondary Analysis Jerry Reiter
09:15 to 10:15	Big Data, Privacy, and the Public Good: Frameworks for engagement Julia Lane
10:15 to 10:30	Update from the March 2015 CCA Panel on Timely Access to Health Data. Michael Wolfson
10:30 to 11:15	Privacy Challenges Arising from the Use of Big Data for Urban Science Mike Holland
11:15	Differentially Private Exponential Random Graph Models and Synthetic Networks Aleksandra (Sesa) Slavkovic
13:30	Overview of Living Analytics Research Centre and its Activities Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University
14:45	Mobile Analytics@LiveLabs: Studying Human Behavior in Urban Public Spaces Archan Misra
16:00	Randomized Network Experiments with Telcoms in Portugal and Singapore Pedro Ferreira

Thursday, April 16th, 2015
08:30 to 09:00	Overview Claudio Silva
09:00 to 09:30	No Title Specified Huy T. Vu
09:30 to 09:45	No Title Specified Budhendra Bhaduri
09:45 to 10:40	No Title Specified Lucien Wilson
10:40 to 11:15	No Title Specified Alex Chohlas-Wood
11:15 to 11:30	No Title Specified Harish Doraiswamy
11:30 to 12:15	No Title Specified Matthew Gee
12:15	Closing remarks Stephanie Shipp, Social and Decision Analytics Lab, Virginia Bioinformatics Lab at VA Tech

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