The annual Midwest Big Data Hub (MBDH) All Hands Meeting, held October 2-3 in Omaha at the Kewitt University, brought members of the MBDH together with interested parties to share information on data and data science-related projects, collaborations, tools, practices, and discoveries in order to build the community, share successes and opportunities, and to provide Big Data applications across the R+D space.
Keynote: Dr. Anthony Scriffignano, Senior Vice President and Chief Data Scientist for Dun & Bradstreet kicked off the event with “Making Decisions that Matter: Data Abounds. Data Confounds.”
Panel discussions included Machine Learning & Data Science: Reproducibility and Gold Standards Across Domains, Big Data for Midwestern Supply Chain Resilience and Putting the Smarts in Smart Columbus: Data Ecosystems for Smart and Healthy Communities. The event wrapped up with information on the state of the MBDH, Federal Agencies and Education and Workforce Development.
In addition to a Bridging Big Data workshop and Microsoft Azure Train the Trainer Event, a Transportation Data Challenge was held in Lincoln to advance transportation safety. The theme of the hackathon, using data science collaboration to reverse the traffic death trends across the US, challenged student teams to build and strengthen collaborative data science projects in the areas of Bike/Pedestrian Safety and Weather/Emergency Response.
More information on the events, student poster session and videos can be found at: http://midwestbigdatahub.org/2017-all-hands-meeting/ and https://bridgingbigdata.github.io/pages/tdc.html