BigSurv18 program


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Thursday 25th October


08:00 - 18:30

Room: 30.SV01 HALL

Arrival and Registration

08:30 - 09:00

BCN Supercomputing Centre tour

09:00 - 20:30

Room: 40.033

Nursing Room available

09:00 - 12:00

Room: 40.035 S. Graus

Green City Hackathon

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch (on your own)

13:00 - 13:30

BCN Supercomputing Centre tour

13:30 - 14:00

BCN Supercomputing Centre tour

13:00 - 16:30

Room: 40.S03

Big Data Processing for Social Science: An Introduction to Apache Spark

13:00 - 16:30

Room: 40.S14

Adaptive Survey Design

13:00 - 16:30

Room: 40.047A

Biases and Their Consequences: Learning From the Total Survey Error Framework

13:00 - 16:30

Room: 40.047C

Introduction to Computational Text Analysis

17:00 - 18:45

Room: 30.S01 Auditori

Welcome and Opening Keynotes by Julia Lane (Professor, Wagner School of Public Policy at New York University; Center for Urban Science and Progress; Provostial Fellow) and Tom Smith (Managing Director, Data Science Campus of the Office for National Statistics, UK)

Download Julia Lane's Keynote

Download Tom Smith's Keynote

18:45 - 20:30

Welcome Reception at UPF (Indoor Courtyard, Roger de Llúria building). Weather permitting, the reception will be held outside (Outdoor Courtyard, Jaume I building)