There are still some free tickets left for the "Big data, big opportunity" conference, at the Australian National University in Canberra, Wednesday, 19 November 2014: http://crawfordphd.wikispaces.com/PhD+Conference+2014#Big%20Data,%20Big%20Opportunity
This features Pia Waugh, Director of Coordination and Gov 2.0, Australian Government. This is a PHD conference, where the program is mostly research students presenting their work in short snappy presentations (along with some keynotes by celebrities). Here is my pick of the student talks: 1030 ‘Putting a Value On It’. The value that New Zealand educational entrepreneurs plan to create, Steve Thomas 1100 Applying reinforcement learning to single and multi-agent economic problems, Neal Hughes 1130 Where big data meets no data, Belinda Thompson 1200 Facing our demons: Do mindfulness skills help people deal with failure at work? James Donald 1300 Giving rights to nature: A new institutional approach for overcoming social dilemmas? Julia Talbot-Jones 1330 Small states, big effects? Oil price shocks and economic growth in small island developing states, Alrick Campbell. 1400 Open access spatial data for effective disaster risk reduction, Christina Griffin 1430 Could order and ambition emerge from the fragmented climate governance complex? Eliza Murray More at: http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2014/11/big-data-policy-conference-in-canberra.html -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
