Improving Understanding and Exploration of Data by Non-Database Experts
Rachel Pottinger, UBC
Thursday, April 12, 2018
10am
EBII 3211 — NCSU Centennial Campus
(Directions to Centennial campus and parking information)
This talk is part of the Taming the Data invited-speaker series, held in the Department of Computer Science at NC State University.
Talk Title: Improving Understanding and Exploration of Data by Non-Database Experts
Talk abstract:
Users are faced with an increasing onslaught of data, whether it’s in their choices of movies to watch, assimilating data from multiple sources, or finding information relevant to their lives on open data registries. In this talk I discuss some of the recent and ongoing work about how to improve understanding and exploration of such data, particularly by users with little database background.
About the speaker:
Rachel Pottinger is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the
University of British Columbia. She received her PhD in computer
science from the University of Washington in 2004. Her main research
interest is data management, particularly semantic data integration,
how to manage metadata, how to manage data that is currently not well
supported by databases, and how to make data easier to understand and
explore.
This invited-speaker series has been made possible thanks to generous support from:
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