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William H. Hsu (Computing & Information Sciences)

Big Data Summit Spring, 2014. Big Data at K-State: Research Initiatives in STEM, Social Informatics, & Digital Humanities. William H. Hsu (Computing & Information Sciences) Michael Wesch (Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work) Mark Crosby (English)

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William H. Hsu (Computing & Information Sciences)

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  1. Big Data Summit Spring, 2014 Big Data at K-State: Research Initiatives in STEM, Social Informatics, & Digital Humanities William H. Hsu (Computing & Information Sciences) Michael Wesch (Sociology, Anthropology, & Social Work) Mark Crosby (English) Hsu: Laboratory for Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD Lab) Wesch: Digital Ethnography @ Anthropology Crosby: Digital Humanities This talk is: http://bit.ly/kstate-BigData-S2014-02 Handout:K-State Big Data For more info: @kstate_bigdata(Twitter), kstatebigdata@gmail.com Resources:http://bit.ly/kstate-BigData Big Data course: CIS 490/690/890, fall 2014

  2. Big Data is Already Here! • Where is “Here” and Since When? • K-State: Local Resources • Twitter: @kstate_bigdata • Facebook, LinkedIn • Everywhere (Ubiquitous Data, Computing) • Aspects: Practice, Applications, Research, Education • Methods: Visualization, Analytics, Data Mining, etc. • Informatics as Applied Computing: Building Blocks • Systems: Info Technology – Hardware & Software • Data, Information, & Knowledge Management • Analytics

  3. Big Data is Ubiquitous & Interdisciplinary Computational Medicine, Heath, & Biology (Bioinformatics & Medical/Health Informatics) http://portal.ncibi.org/gateway/ Digital Arts http://bit.ly/digitalarts-tutorials Citation Network of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions (Bommaritoet al., 2010) Computational Law http://bit.ly/complaw-citation-net

  4. Some Techniques & Findings Have been Around A long Time… Snow, J. (1854) http://bit.ly/infovis-myths-ghostmap See also: Johnson, S. (2006). The Ghost Map. 2014 Kansas State Book Network (KSBN) Common Reader

  5. Some Are New… Geoinformatics & Opinion Mining Murphy, Hsu, Elshamy, Kallumadi, & Volkova (2014)

  6. Some Are Emergent from Big Data (e.g., Big Social Data) http://bit.ly/datamining-target-teenpreg, http://bit.ly/datamining-ethics-teenpreg “How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did” (Hill, 2012) See also: http://bit.ly/seeing-state – Seeing Like a State (Scott, 1999)

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