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  • Virtual Workshop — Big Data Promises and Obstacles: Agricultural Data Ownership and Privacy

    The UASPSE* digital agriculture spoke project of the Midwest Big Data Hub, together with the University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resources Sciences and PepsiCo, are hosting Big Data Promises and Obstacles: Agricultural Data Ownership and Privacy, a virtual workshop on data ownership and privacy as it relates to academic and industry Research and Development in agriculture.

  • The Iowa State University Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) is currently accepting applications for funding to develop a series of seminars or workshops focused on building communities to harness the data revolution.

    Up to $500 in funding is available to cover costs (project coordination, videography, refreshments) associated with the development and delivery of a seminar series/webcast/workshop to build data communities.

  • The National Science Foundation (NSF) this month announced (NSF Announcement) the second phase of funding for the regional Big Data Innovation Hub (BD Hubs) program. Under the planned four year, $4 million award, the Midwest Big Data Hub will continue to be led from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

  • The Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Summer Meeting is fast approaching (July 16-19 in Tacoma, Washington), and this is the last call for funding support for the Drone Data Design Hackathon/Workshop. The application form needs to completed by Sunday, June 9. You may review the review the agenda for the workshop online and provide comments.

  • If you instruct data science courses, or can share with your colleagues who do, you are invited to take (or share) a survey about data science and how various concepts and skills relate professional practice. This survey is part of an NSF TRIPODS-X grant that is exploring students’ misconceptions with data science concepts as they begin their data science education.

  • Contact the MBDH (info@midwestbigdatahub.org) if you would like to request a Letter of Collaboration or otherwise wish to include MBDH participation in a proposal. See a longer list of open opportunities on the MBDH funding opportunities website. 

  • The Midwest Big Data Hub recently co-led local participation in the 4th annual Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference, with sponsorship from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the University of Illinois. The event was free and open to all. The WiDS Conference, hosted on March 4th at 150 locations around the world, seeks to unite and connect women working in data science fields.

  • Save the date for the third annual Midwest Big Data Hub All-Hands Meeting on Aug. 21 (9 a.m.- 3:30 p.m., Salina, Kansas). This meeting will serve as the culmination for the National Science Foundation project dedicated to bringing academics and commercial operators together around the topic of big data for agriculture. Registration will open later this spring. 

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