Final 2016 Workshop Program

Monday, December 5
Concord Room
Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill

1:30 - 1:40pm Welcome and Introduction [slides]
1:40 - 2:30pm Keynote: Dr. Jeremy Freeman, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Open Source, Open Science
2:30 - 2:50pm Dr. Rangan Sukumar, Cray Inc.
Data Science Success Stories Using Open Health Data: From Fraud to Solving Medical Mysteries [slides]
2:50 - 3:10pm Jake Mannix, Lucidworks
Searchhub: Apache Listserv Archives and Tools to Analyze Them [slides]
3:10 - 3:30pm Prof. Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology
Opportunities for Open Science [slides]
3:30 - 3:50pm Coffee Break
3:50 - 4:10pm Jim Crist, Continuum Analytics
Dask & Numba: Simple Libraries for Optimizing Scientific Python Code [slides]
4:10 - 4:30pm Dr. Jake VanderPlas, University of Washington eScience Institute
Promoting Open Science in the University [slides]
4:30 - 4:40pm Panel Q&A
4:40 - 4:55pm Hatef Monajemi, David Donoho, and Victoria Stodden
Making Massive Computational Experiments Painless [slides]
4:55 - 5:10pm Ella Peltonen, Eemil Lagerspetz, Petteri Nurmi, and Sasu Tarkoma
Too Big to Mail: On the Way to Publish Large-scale Mobile Analytics Data [slides]
5:10 - 5:25pm Coffee Break
5:25 - 5:40pm Zhou Xing, Marzieh Parandehgheibi, Fei Xiao, Nilesh Kulkarni, and Chris Pouliot
Content-based Recommendation for Podcast Audio-items using Natural Language Processing Techniques [slides]
5:40 - 5:55pm Ruoqian Liu, Diana Palsetia, Arindam Paul, Reda Al-Bahrani, Dipendra Jha, Wei-keng Liao, Ankit Agrawal, and Alok Choudhary
PinterNet: A Thematic Label Curation Tool for Large Image Datasets [slides]
5:55 - 6:10pm Vishnu Gowda Harish, Vinay Kumar Bingi, and John A Miller
A Big Data Platform Integrating Compressed Linear Algebra with Columnar Databases [slides]
6:10 - 6:25pm Geoffrey Mon, Milad Makkie, Xiang Li, Tianming Liu, and Shannon Quinn
Implementing Dictionary Learning in Apache Flink, Or: How I Learned to Relax and Love Iterations [slides]
6:25 - 6:30pm Wrap-up and Concluding Remarks