Building Data Science Collaborations between the UK and Brazil

We encourage you to apply even if you come from other domains (e.g.: politics, economics, psychology)

Workshop: Building Data Science Collaborations between the UK and Brazil
25 November 2021

Find full details via the Workshop Programme (pdf).

Please note that the deadline to apply to attend this event has now passed.

Topics

Computational Social Science
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Data Science Workflows
Data Engineering / Cloud engineering

Discussion groups

Discussion groups are loosely based on DSI research themes.

Healthcare and Social Policy
Commercial Applications of Data Science
Urban and Environmental Data Science
Digital Misinformation & Social Media
Mathematical Foundations of Data Science
People, Language, and Society

Targeted audience

Any researchers based in academic institutions in the UK or Brazil with an interest in establishing data science research collaborations.

You do not need to have any current connections or research agreements before joining the workshop and we encourage applications even if you come from other domains and/or do not already use any data science in your current work.

The Workshop

This workshop will take place from 13:00 - 17:00 (GMT) on 25 November 2021. It will take place online via Zoom, with participants collaborating using open source online tools.

Researchers will be grouped according to their topics of interests and facilitators will conduct structured brainstorming sessions aimed at proposing small research projects.

In a sense, this workshop will also be an experiment. We will run an adapted version of the Lean Inception methodology, a technique used to plan software products, to brainstorm projects adequate to the needs of an academic research environment.

Expected outcomes

1. Connect researchers based in the UK and in Brazil who have not been in a research collaboration before.

2. A document listing the short project proposals written during the workshop. This will be circulated after the event to encourage further collaboration links.

3. Establish research collaborations (UK-BR) to be conducted over the next academic year.

4. Identify overarching goals and establish plans for collaboration in grant proposals.

5. We will also conduct short surveys 6 and 12 months after the event, to assess the impact of the workshop methodology in enabling new research collaborations, and to collect feedback for future sessions.

Please note that the deadline to apply to attend this event has now passed.