BIG DATA SCIENCE - BAHIA 2018

Purpose:
To bring together Brazilian and UK researchers to discuss how big data and data science methods and tools can be used to address existing and new challenging problems on genomic epidemiology, longitudinal studies, new diseases, data linkage & visualization, and predictive analytics applied to healthcare data.

Format:
There will be 4 sessions discussing Bioinformatics, Epigenomics, Methods and Tools for Health Research, and Open / New Challenges related to the use of big data sets for health research. We will also run 3 short courses (3 - 4 hours) on machine learning, phenotyping methods, data preprocesing and linkage.

History:
This is the 4th edition in a series of events jointly organized by Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) and the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) to promote big data research applied to public health care data in Brazil. Previous editions were held in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

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