On Monday May 21, 2012, the Institute for Business & Information Technology (IBIT) hosted a University-wide symposium on “Big Data” in cooperation with the Office of Research. The purpose of this symposium was to bring together Temple researchers across disciplines to explore inter-disciplinary synergies and collaborations on big data research. Big data refer to extremely large datasets that do not conform to traditional principles of data collection, storage, management, sharing, processing, and statistical analysis, and they impose challenges on data storing, computer processing, existing statistical data analysis approaches, and existing ways to interpret, visualize, and derive knowledge from huge quantities of data. Over 70 faculty and PhD students attended the symposium that included several presentations and panel discussions from faculty in statistics, computer science, MIS, marketing, and the school of medicine.
The purpose of this internal Temple symposium is to identify capabilities on how to deal with big data across campus, identify synergies across researchers, Centers, departments, and schools, and hopefully spawn inter-disciplinary collaborative research on big data that will pursue external funding. Notably, the U.S. government has recently unveiled a $200M effort titled “Big Data Research and Development Initiative” that aims to support new R&D initiatives associated with big data. Moreover, the symposium will explore inter-disciplinary collaborations for potentially developing graduate programs in data analytics.
| 12:00pm | Lunch |
| 12:45pm | Opening Remarks |
| 1:00pm | Session 1: Practical Applications and Best Practices with Big Data
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| 2:00pm | Session 2: Statistical Solutions for Big Data
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| 2:45pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:15pm | Session 3: Technical Solutions for Big Data
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| 4:00pm | Panel: “Emerging Opportunities and Challenges of Big Data”
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| 5:00pm | Networking Reception |
For more information, contact: Paul A. Pavlou
