From Precision Medicine to Precision Life
A Workshop on Transdisciplinary Data Science
Feb 2–4, 2020
University of Florida, Gainesville
Given recent advances in data science in all disciplines, interesting opportunities are available for computationally mining heterogeneous and unstructured big data –like electronic medical record notes, social media data, environmental and organizational newsfeeds – with methodological tools including natural language processing, pattern recognition, and network analysis.
These methodological tools are essential for advancing the science in many fields, but especially bridging fields together. In fact, the same methodologies and data used to answer research questions related to bio-health informatics can be used for answering research questions in psychology or organizational science. The difference is in (1) domain knowledge / extant theory, and (2) outcomes.
With this workshop, we aim at creating a common data model that bridges different disciplines by merging theory and outcomes. Our shared modelling aims are: “reproducibility, intepretability, and actionability.”
The purpose of this workshop is to address these challenges and opportunities by bringing researchers from different fields together, as data scientists. As a transdisciplinary use case, we will bring together health and organizational/management science, identifying life outcomes that encompass the two.
The workshop will feature invited presentations, welcoming so-called ‘antilogoi’ that means debates on a topic with opposite point of views. After talks, moderated panel and round table discussions will involve the whole audience. The attendees will include academic leaders and thought experts, as well as early career faculty, and graduate students from College of Medicine, College of Public Health and Health Professions, and Warrington College of Business.
Organizers and Sponsors
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Jiang Bian, PhD Associate Professor Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics College of Medicine Director, Cancer Informatics and eHealth Core Program University of Florida Health Cancer Center |
George Michailidis, PhD Professor Department of Statistics College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Founding Director University of Florida Informatics Institute |
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Mattia Prosperi, MEng, PhD Associate Professor Preeminence Faculty Department of Epidemiology College of Public Health and Health Professions and College of Medicine |
Mo Wang, PhD Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Chair Professor Director, Human Resource Research Center Chair, Management Department Warrington College of Business |
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| Collaborative sponsor: The Data Science and Applied Technology Core (DSAT), led by Drs. Todd Manini and Sanjay Ranka | |
The workshop will be able to accommodate ~60 people and we will process RSVPs in the order we receive them until the planned cap. Please send your inquiries to disl@phhp.ufl.edu.
The event will also be livestreamed. See program for details or send us an inquiry for virtual registration and you will be sent the live links.
Footnote: The workshop acronym is DAISY, which sounds graceful and easy to remember. We reverse engineered it into DAta Intelligence SYmposium, but any other interpretation is welcome!