Third Annual KnoweScape Conference at the Mundaneum

Datum :
07/10/2015 tot 09/10/2015
Plaats :
Mundaneum
Publiek :
All
Prijs :
Free

KNOWeSCAPE is a European network of experts in information visualisation. The organizers have chosen the Mundaneum to reunite its members from all over Europe, but not only: the conference is open to all and free of charge!

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From Data to Knowledge - Measuring, Predicting and Visualizing Science

There is no escape from the expansion of information, so that structuring and locating meaningful knowledge becomes ever more difficult. This conference aims at tackling this issue by gathering information professionals, sociologists, bibliometricians, physicists, digital humanities scholars and computer scientists to exchange their views on problems of data mining and data curation when studying Science. The combination of insights from complexity theory and knowledge organization will improve our understanding of the collective, self-organized nature of human knowledge production and will support the development of new principles and methods of data representation, processing, and archiving. Ultimately, our goal is to improve our understanding on how to create interactive maps of knowledge.

In particular, we have invited experts in:

- data mining and pattern recognition,
- modelling of social media,
- analysis and visualization of complex data.

Read the press release (in French)

KEYNOTES :

07.10.2015 - 18h15 : To be confirmed
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Eugene Garfield is unable to join us in person. We are in the process to see if he can join in remotely.

08.10.2015 - 18h15 : César Hidalgo (MIT)
Why information grows?
Social systems explained via their relationship to economy, biology, knowledge, ...
Can a better understanding of the world's complexity enable us to develop national industrial policies to raise living standards?
In a radical rethink of what an economy is, one of WIRED magazine’s 50 People Who Could Change the World, César Hidalgo argues that it is the measure of a nation’s cultural complexity – the nexus of people, ideas and invention - rather than its GDP or per-capita income, that explains the success or failure of its economic performance. To understand the growth of economies, Hidalgo argues, we first need to understand the growth of order itself. Cesar visits the RSA to present a new view of the relationship between individual and collective knowledge, linking information theory, economics and biology to explain the deep evolution of social and economic systems.
Free entrance, in English (no translation)
Read the webinvitation

The complete program here

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