Research Without Borders Panel To Discuss Big Open Data on December 4th | Scholarly Communication Program

"Please join the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship’s Scholarly Communication Program for 'Research Without Borders: Big Open Data', our second event of the academic year in our Research Without Borders panel discussion series. This event will take place from 2-4pm on Thursday, December 4th, 2014 in Presidential Rooms 2 & 3 on the 3rd Floor of Columbia’s Faculty House. It is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend, please RSVP to lwilliams@columbia.edu. How are large amounts of data managed, made sense of, and made accessible? What are the challenges of working with large open datasets, and how are different academic disciplines making use of them? In this panel discussion, researchers will explore 'big open data' from three perspectives: the humanities, journalism, and the social web ..."