Event Host: Center for Urban and Regional Analysis (CURA)
Short Description: The Center for Urban and Regional Analysis hosts Kristin Tolle, director of the Data Science Initiative at Microsoft, for a presentation, “Collaborative analytics: Meeting global challenges through shared research and development."
Ohio State's Center for Urban and Regional Anaylsis (CURA) presents a marquee event in conjunction with Translational Data Analytics @ Ohio State, Ohio State ADVANCE and The Women's Place.
Kristin M. Tolle, director of the Data Science Initiative in Microsoft Research Outreach, will present on "Collabroative analytics: Meeting global challenges through shared research and development." Tolle works for several product teams including the Natural Language Group, Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office Excel. Since joining Microsoft, she has run several major initiatives from biomedical computing and environmental science to more traditional computer and information science programs around natural user interactions and data curation. She also directed the development of the Microsoft Translator Hub and the Environmental Science Services Toolkit.
Tolle is an editor of one of the earliest books on data science, The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive Scientific Discovery. Her current focus is develop an outreach program to engage with academics on data science in general and more specifically around using data to create meaningful and useful user experiences across devices platforms.
Tolle's presentation will focus on research collaborations that cut across industry, government and academia, providing interesting breakthroughs in research and development. The use cases discussed will focus on global challenges—such as healthcare and climate change. Pushing the state of the art can be facilitated through these partnerships—public/private and academic/industry—when each group bring their unique strengths and perspectives to bear on scientific problems.
This event is free and open to all. RSVP is strongly encouraged. There will be time at the end of her lecture for question and answer. For more information about Kristin Tolle, visit CURA.
