Ways of Seeing
A Multidisciplinary workshop on data visualization and analytics
COST workshop jointly organized by Social Sciences Computing Hub (SSCH) and Complex Systems Research Centre (CORE) NUI Galway
Venue: CA110, Cairnes Building, NUI Galway
Schedule
Wednesday, 23rd April 2014
09:30 – 09:45 – Registration, Welcome
Session 1 Financial fragility and Systemic crisis
09:50 Sorin Solomon, Hebrew University, Jerusalem: Minsky’s Financial Instability and Marshall-Walras Disequilibrium [Slides]
10.40 Naoise Metadjer, NUI Galway, Ireland: Critical Transitions in Eurozone Sovereign Bond Markets [slides]
11:30 Coffee break
12:00 Natasa Golo, Hebrew University, Jerusalem: A model of Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis applied to an inter-firm network [slides]
12:50 Lunch
Session 2 Financial crisis and Macroeconomy
14:00 Sinead Ashe, NUI Galway, Ireland: Assessing the empirical performance of DSGE model in the lead up to the Crisis [slides]
14:50 Eoghan Staunton, NUI Galway, Ireland: Product space and the Skill network: The case of Ireland [slides]
15:40: Coffee break
16:00 Srinivas Raghavendra, NUI Galway, Ireland: Finance led growth, Endogenous money and Macroeconomic crisis
End of Day 1
Thursday, 24th April 2014
Session 1 Knowledge maps and Visualization
09:30 Andrea Scharnhorst, eHumanities group, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW): The use of research information systems – from first impressions to thorough policy analysis [slides at slideshare]
10:20 Bin Yang, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Sorbonne Universities Paris VI University: How to Visualize Information by using the notion of Memory Islands
11:00 Coffee break
11:10 Ozge Dilaver, University of Surrey, UK: Between Istanbul and Thessaloniki: Modeling Trade, Mobility and Barriers between Two Cities
12:00 Judit Bar-Ilan, Bar Ilan University, Israel: Altmetrics – potential for visualization?
12:40 Petri Piiroinen, NUI, Galway: Surfaces to visualize dynamics in decision-making and mechanics
13:15 Lunch
Session 2 Religion, Science and Analysis
14:15 Marcel Ausloos, eHumanities group, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW): On the analysis of data having some religious aspects
15:30 Coffee break
Session 3 Group behavior and dynamics
16:15 Serge Galam, CEVIPOF – Centre for Political Research, Sciences Po and CNRS, Paris: While for any unsolved problem, you can view it half full or half empty, the resulting drink will taste totally different
End of Day 2
Friday, 25th April 2014
Session 1 Group behavior and dynamics (continued)
09:30 Bertrand M. Roehner, LPTHE, University of Paris (Pierre and Marie Curie): How can one measure group cohesion?
10:30 Maxi San Miguel, IFISC (CSIC-UIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Data for Human Mobility. Implications in electoral processes.
11:00 L. Angelova, I. Atanasov and O. Yordanov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia Bulgaria: Correlations in a self-organized criticality models: a detailed study
11:30 Coffee break
12:00 Peter Richmond, University of Dublin, Trinity College: Multiple choice examinations: similarity of answers and cheating in candidate networks
12.45 Lunch
End of meeting
Organizers: Dr. Srinivas Raghavendra, NUI Galway, Ireland, MC Member TD1210 & Professor Peter Richmond, TCD and Open University, UK, Chair of WG 2 TD1210