Stephen Few: Big Data, Little Understanding
Date and time
Location
SFU Harbour Centre, Rm. #1900 (Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre)
515 W Hastings St. Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3 CanadaRefund Policy
Description
TITLE
Big Data, Little Understanding
DESCRIPTION
While it is true that data in increasing at an exponential pace, understanding is not. Despite the hype of Big Data, progress in data sensemaking is slow. It relies on analytical skills that can at best be augmented, but never replaced, by technologies. Visual analytics is a human-computer collaboration that will enhance data sensemaking if it focuses on the development of key thinking skills and the technologies that are needed to augment those skills. In his presentation, Stephen Few will describe the potential of visual analytics and how this emerging discipline must be shaped to detect and understand the signals that reside in our world of noisy data.
(The talk is from 6:00 - 7:00 PM, reception follows from 7:00 - 8:00 PM)
Organized by
The Vancouver Institute for Visual Analytics (VIVA) is a joint research institute between Simon Fraser University (SFU), the University of British Columbia (UBC), and the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT). VIVA promotes visual analytics and provides training on visual analytics tools, techniques, and theory to industry professionals as well as students and academics.