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Program

The workshop will be organized around the following key topics, all focused on social problems and policy issues: urban analytics; privacy; official statistics; agent-based modeling and network models.

Draft Schedule

Monday April 13: Big Data and Official/Government Statistics
8:00	Coffee and Registration
8:30-9:00	Welcome - Sallie Keller, Virginia Tech
9:00-10:00	Robert R. Groves, Georgetown University Moving from the Sample Survey Paradigm to a Blended World with High-Dimensional Data
10:00-10:15	Coffee break
10:15-11:15	Mary Thompson, University of Waterloo Big data, official statistics and survey science
11:15-12:15	Ana Aizcorbe, Virginia Tech Leveraging "big data" to improve official measures of health care: Lessons from a new Health Satellite Account for the US
12:15-1:30	Lunch break
1:30-2:30	Hélène Bérard, Statistics Canada A Suggested Framework for National Statistics Offices for Assessing the Quality of Big Data
2:30-3:30	Ron Jarmin, US Census The Value Chain and Impact of University Research: A Prototype for Modernizing Economic Statistics
3:30-4:00	Tea break
4:00-5:00	Pierre Lavallée, Statistics Canada Sample Matching: Toward a probabilistic approach for Web surveys and big data?
5:00	Cash bar reception
Tuesday April 14: Network Models and Agent Based Modeling
8:30-9:30	Stanley Wasserman, Indiana University Using Correspondence Analysis to Attack Big Network Data
9:30-9:45	Coffee break
9:45-10:45	Eric Miller, University of Toronto Agent-Based Microsimulation of Urban Spatial Socio-Economic Processes: Current Status, Future Prospects and the role of Big Data
10:45-11:00	Coffee break
11:00-12:00	Jonathan Ozik, Argonne National Laboratoy Agent-based Modeling and Big Data
12:00-1:30	Lunch break
1:30-2:30	Nathaniel Osgood, University of Saskatchewan Cross - leveraging Systems, Data and Computational Science for Health Behavioural Insight
2:30-3:30	Gizem Korkmaz, Virginia Tech Insurgency Prediction Using Multiple High Volume Social Media Data Sources
3:30-4:00	Tea break
4:00-5:00	Michael Wolfson, University of Ottawa Using Agent-Based Models for Social Policy - from LifePaths to THIM
Wednesday April 15: Living Analytics and Privacy
Session: Privacy in the New Era of Big Data
8:30-9:15	Jerry Reiter, Duke University Making Large-Scale, Confidential Data Available for secondary Analysis
9:15-10:00	Julia Lane, America Institutes of Research Big Data, Privacy, and the Public Good: Frameworks for engagement
10:00-10:15	Coffee break
10:15-10:30	Michael Wolfson, University of Ottawa Update from the March 2015 CCA Panel on Timely Access to Health Data. ( http://www.scienceadvice.ca/en/assessments/in-progress/health-data.aspx )
10:30-11:15	Mike Holland, Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University Privacy Challenges Arising from the Use of Big Data for Urban Science
11:15-12:00	Aleksandra (Sesa) Slavkovic, Penn State Differentially Private Exponential Random Graph Models and Synthetic Networks
12:00-1:30	Lunch break
Session: Statistics, Big Data and the Programs of the Living Analytics Research Centre, operated jointly by Carnegie Mellon University and Singapore Management University
1:30-2:30	Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University Overview of Living Analytics Research Centre and its Activities
2:30-2:45	Tea break
2:45-3:45	Archan Misra, Singapore Management University Mobile Analytics@LiveLabs: Studying Human Behavior in Urban Public Spaces
3:45-4:00	Tea break
4:00-5:00	Pedro Ferreira, Carnegie Mellon University Randomized Network Experiments with Telcoms in Portugal and Singapore
Thursday April 16: Urban Analytics
8:30-8:45	Overview
8:30-8:45	Charlie Catlett, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Claudio Silva, Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University
8:45-10:15	Panel Discussion: Urban Data
8:45-10:15	Michael Flowers, Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University Huy T. Vo, Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University Lucien Wilson, KPF and University of Columbia Budhendra Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
10:15-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-12:00	Panel Discussion: How is Data Being Used? Analyzing the Digital Exhaust of Cities and Urban Processes
10:30-12:00	Tom Schenk, Chief Data Officer, City of Chicago Alex Chohlas-Wood, New York Police Department Harish Doraiswamy, New York University Matthew Gee, University of Chicago
12:00-1:30	Lunch
1:30-3:00	Panel Discussion: Missing Data - Instrumenting the City
1:30-3:00	Charlie Catlett,University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab Jeremy Parra, Intel
3:00-3:15	Tea break
3:15-4:30	*Panel Discussion: Where are the Opportunities and Challenges?***
3:15-4:30	Claudio Silva (Moderator), Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University Michael Flowers, Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University Huy T. Vo, Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University Lucien Wilson, KPF and University of Columbia Budhendra Bhaduri, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Tom Schenk, Chief Data Officer, City of Chicago Alex Chohlas-Wood, New York Police Department Harish Doraiswamy, New York University Matthew Gee, University of Chicago Charlie Catlett, University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab Jeremy Parra, Intel
4:30-5:00	Closing remarks, Stephanie Shipp, Virginia Tech Policy meets Social and Decision Informatics