DISA

Centre for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications

New PhD-course being offered within DISA – Applied information Visualizations 7,5 credits

2018-02-20

We are now offering one of the first PhD-courses related to DISA. It’s also open for other potential PhD-students.

Course content:

Information Visualization (InfoVis) is an area of research that focuses on the use of visualization techniques to help people understand and analyze abstract data (such as tables or hierarchies).

The course includes visual representations, interaction techniques and visualization systems for:

  • text and documents,
  • network data (graphs),
  • time series,
  • software-related data,
  • SoftVis, WebVis, BioMedVis, and GeoVis.

Also discussed topics of importance are collaborative and personal visualization, Visual Analytics, evaluation methods for systems/tools, and research challenges in InfoVis and Visual Analytics.

Timetable

The course will start on March 19 and finish on by the end of the semester.

See the full time schedule 

Registration

The registration needs to be finalized no later than March 2nd 2018

Register here

We will soon be launching more courses – so keep an eye out!

//Diana

 

Forskningsseminarium: Bättre vård när patienter är delaktiga

2018-02-19

Tekniska lösningar sägs vara svaret för att klara välfärden när befolkningen åldras. Men hur gör man så att individen ska känna sig trygg med tekniken?

Linda Askenäs, lektor i information vid Linnéuniversitetet presenterar och diskuterar under seminariet sin forskning om hur man introducerar tekniska lösningar för att skapa tryggare och bättre vård.

– Det är viktigt att patienter och äldre får vara innovatörer och känna sig delaktiga i processen, säger Linda Askenäs.

  • När? Fredag 9 mars Klockan 13.15-14.45
  • Var? eHälsoinstitutet, Bredbandet 1, Varvsholmen; Kalmar
  • Anmälan: skicka ett mejl till ehalsoinstitutet@lnu.se eller ring 0480-49 71 62 (Senast 7/3 då vi ska beställa fika)

Seminariet är del i den seminarieserie som arrangeras av eHälsoinstitutet och forskningsgruppen för eHälsa inom Linnaeus University Centre for Data Intensive Sciences and Applications (DISA)

Se våra liveinspelade forskningsseminarium och program för våren 2018 på www.ehalsoinstitutet.se

//Diana

Workshop invitation: “The Beautiful Science of Data Visualisation”

2018-02-16

We are pleased to invite you to attend a workshop on the topic “The Beautiful Science of Data Visualisation” that will be held at Linnaeus University

  • When? March, 2nd between 13:00-15:00
  • Where? D1136 (D Building).

This workshop will be given by Thierry Driver, Academic Program Strategist at Tableau Software. The aim of this event is to give an overview about the features of Tableau and how it helps people see and understand data. During this workshop, participants will get an introduction to Data Visualisation, including visualisation best practices and hands-on activities with the software.

As space is limited, the confirmation of your attendance will be greatly appreciated. Please complete the online registration form for the workshop.

If you have any questions about this event, please contact:

Alisa Lincke
Thierry Driver

For the program and more information about the workshop click here.

//Diana

Call for Papers – Digital Humanities Congress 2018

2018-02-14

The University of Sheffield’s Digital Humanities Institute is delighted to announce its Call for Papers for a three-day conference to be held in Sheffield, 6th – 8th September 2018. The Digital Humanities Congress is a conference held in Sheffield every two years. Its purpose is to promote the sharing of knowledge, ideas and techniques within the digital humanities.

Digital humanities is understood by Sheffield to mean the use of technology within arts, heritage and humanities research as both a method of inquiry and a means of dissemination. As such, proposals related to all disciplines within the arts, humanities and heritage domains are welcome. Proposals are welcome from academics, researchers, postgraduate students, professionals from within the cultural, heritage and information sectors, technologists and SMEs. Proposals are welcome from UK and international contributors. Contributors can propose individual papers, or sessions of three or more papers on a related theme.

Koraljka Golub from the Digital Humanities environment here at Linnaeus University encourage you to submit a paper and/or attend the congress. The deadline for submitting papers are on February 28th. For more information about the call see the congress website.

//Diana

Welcome to DISA-DH Winter seminar February 16th

2018-02-13

Welcome to the DISA-DH Winter Seminar. This is an opportunity for our researcher to present results/research-oriented parts that focuses on ongoing/completed research activities in the Digital Humanities field. As a participant you get to listen to the ongoing work and maybe even find potential collaborations.

  • When? Friday 16 Feb, 2018 at 8.30–15.30
  • Where? Lammhultsrummet in the F-building at the Linnaues University
  • Sign up by e-mailing Mikko Laitinen

Program

9.00–9.30 Morning coffee

9.30–9.45 Opening (Mikko Laitinen)

9.45–10.15 Koraljka Golub – Automatic indexing on DIVA

10.15–10.45 Pernilla Severson – The politics of women: Digital archives in journalism history

10.45–11.15 Daniel Sundberg & Johan Nilsson Papa Revisited: A Corpus-Stylistic Perspective on Hemingway’s Authorship

11.15–11.45 Aris Alissandrakis Using Virtual & Augmented Reality in the Digital Humanities

11.45–12.00 Alexander Lakaw The effects of sentiment on agreement with collective nouns

12.00–13.00 Self-funded lunch

13.00–14.00 A guest lecture by Professor Pelle Snickars, Umeå University KBLab and DH environments in Sweden (preliminary title)

14.00–14.15 Coffee

14.15–15.30 Discussion and next steps

 

//Diana

Smarter Worksharing

2018-02-12

An article titled “Smarter Worksharing” that highlights our research at Linnaeus University appeared in HiPEAC INFO 53 (page 31). This issue of HiPEAC INFO was dedicated to machine learning and AI research in Europe. Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University, explains how his team is using machine learning for optimal worksharing on heterogeneous computing systems.

HiPEAC is the European Network on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation. HiPEAC INFO is quarterly published news by HiPEAC.

Further reading suggestions:

Suejb Memeti and Sabri Pllana. ‘A machine learning approach for accelerating DNA sequence analysis’. International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, published online on June 26, 2016

//Diana

Inbjudan Forskningsseminarium 2/2: Äldre stängs ute i det digitala samhället

2018-01-25

400 000 äldre i Sverige saknar idag helt någon form av apparat att koppla upp sig digitalt med. Ny forskningvisar att det inte bara är en övergående generationsfråga.

Regeringen satsar på digitalisering som ska lösa utmaningarna med en åldrande befolkning. Samtidigt visar forskning att var femte äldre stängs ute i det digitala samhället.
– Det beror bl.a. på faktorer som äldres ekonomi och att teknik och kunskap bör uppdateras regelbundet, vilket vi tenderar att få allt svårare att klara av, säger Dino Viscovi, forskare och lektor i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, Linnéuniversitetet.

Tid: Fredag 2 Februari klockan 10.00-11.30 (Vi bjuder på fika från 9.30)
Plats: eHälsoinstitutet Varvsholmen, Kalmar (Adress Bredbandet 1)

Anmäl dig genom att skicka ett mejl till ehalsoinstitutet@lnu.se

Forskningsseminariet kommer också att sändas via länken https://play.lnu.se/media/t/1_4676d1q6

Det här är andra delen i vår serie forskningsseminarier eHälsa som eHälsoinstitutet och DISA eHealth bjuder in till våren 2018.

Mvh
Diana

Seminar in Statistics “Estimating deformation of polar ice”

2017-12-07

The department of statistics would like to invite you to the Seminar in Statistics that will be held at their department on December 12th. The presentation under title “Estimating deformation of polar ice” will be given by Professor Aila Särkkä from Chalmers University of Technology. Seminar starts at 14:00 in room K2084V. No sign-up is required.

 

Abstract:

Analysis of deep polar ice cores has become an important tool for deriving climate information from the past. Interpretation of ice core records requires an accurate dating of the ice. The recent dating relies on models where the key element is the simulation of the individual history of ice deformation for each specific core site. We present a two-stage method for the estimation of the deformation history in polar ice using the measured anisotropy of air inclusions from deep ice cores. First, we fit ellipsoids to the pattern of point-to-point distance vectors to estimate the direction of anisotropy. Then, we estimate the scale of anisotropy by identifying the back-transformation resulting in the most isotropic pattern. Finally, the method is applied to estimate the compression in polar ice air bubble patterns.

For more information please contact: Jolanta Pielaszkiewicz, jolanta.pielaszkiewicz@lnu.se

Digital Humanities Seminar: Open Data in the Age of Big Data Capitalism – Arwid Lund

2017-12-05

Arwid Lund, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Linnaeus University will give a talk within the emerging field of Digital Humanities (DH) that is a part of the DH Seminar series hosted by the Digital Humanities Initiative at the Linnaeus University.

  • Date: 6 December 2017
  • Time: 13:00-14:00
  • Location: K1040, Building K, Växjö

Abstract: Open Data in the Age of Big Data Capitalism, Arwid Lund

The digital world has transformed the conditions for discussing freedom within liberalism. Private property more obviously clashes with the freedom of speech (the public sphere), when the costs of mediated and reproduced art, journalism, information and literature nears zero and the exchange of these takes fluid forms, similar to social communication. The concept of “open”, similar but still opposite to “free”, has taken on an accentuated ideological importance in this context, but so have also alternative visions of intellectual commons. This article contains a case study of Open Knowledge Network’s perspective on openness’ relation to private property and capitalism in the informational field. It does so first through an analysis of the network’s understanding of the copyleft principle, and second through an analysis of the organisation’s view on open business models. A theoretical reading of classical political perspectives on the concept of freedom supports the analysis. One result is the identification of a central ideological lacuna in absent discussions of unconditionally opened-up resources that strengthen the accumulation cycle of capital. This logic favours the negative freedom of closed business models in the competition with open ones that could foster more positive notions of freedom, although open business models are generally advocated and commons are mentioned as desirable. In a dominant ideological formation, openness is used to promote its opposite in the economic field.Läs resten av detta inlägg»