Conference: Big Data Meets Survey Science

该奖项为题为“大数据与调查科学（BigSurv 18）”的国际会议提供部分支持。“该会议由欧洲调查研究协会组织，将于2018年10月下旬在西班牙巴塞罗那举行。在这种情况下，“大数据”一词是指对于传统方法的数据收集和/或分析而言过于庞大和复杂的数据。大数据和数据科学的兴起正在改变数据的收集和使用方式。调查方法必须继续发展，以跟上这些趋势。本次会议将作为来自世界各地的研究人员和从业人员在社会科学和计算机和数据科学的交叉工作的会议场所。会议将强调从不同学科的收集，处理和分析数据的方法相结合。数据科学和调查方法学领域研究人员的专业成长和跨学科培训，特别是研究生和应届毕业生，将是会议的重点。 该会议将通过为早期职业研究人员提供跨学科培训和理解来加强教育和研究的基础设施。会议将跨学科传播知识，并向更广泛的受众传播知识，鼓励大规模的跨学科研究议程，并将帮助建立跨学科的可持续社区。会议材料将以可供公众访问的档案形式提供，编辑的卷和社会科学计算机评论的特刊将在全球出版和传播。为了相关，调查科学的未来必须包括大数据，但调查研究和数据科学的整合进展非常缓慢，如果有的话。本次会议将重点关注将调查数据与大数据相结合用于人口估计，预测和推断的方法和应用。会议组织者将寻求来自计算机和数据科学界以及调查研究界的演讲者和参与者的平衡代表。将特别努力从学术界、政府、多个国际社区和地点以及代表性不足的群体招募研究人员。会议计划将包括论文会议、海报会议、短期课程和启动数据挑战。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award provides partial support for an international conference titled "Big Data Meets Survey Science (BigSurv18)." The conference is organized by the European Survey Research Association and will be held in Barcelona, Spain in late October 2018. In this context, the term "big data" refers to data that are too large and complex for data collection and/or analysis with traditional methods. The rise of big data and data science is changing how data are collected and used. Survey methodologies must continue to evolve to keep pace with these trends. This conference will serve as a meeting place for researchers and practitioners from around the world working at the intersection of the social sciences and computer and data science. The conference will emphasize the combination of approaches from different disciplines for the collection, processing, and analysis of data. The professional growth and cross-disciplinary training of researchers in the fields of data science and survey methodology, particularly graduate students and recent graduates, will be a key focus of the conference. The conference will enhance the infrastructure for education and research by providing cross-disciplinary training and understanding to early-career researchers. The conference will disseminate knowledge across disciplines and to a wider audience, encourage large-scale cross-fertilizing research agendas, and will help build sustainable communities across disciplines. Conference materials will be made available in a publicly accessible archive, and an edited volume and a special issue in Social Science Computer Review will be published and disseminated worldwide.To be relevant, the future of survey science must include big data, but the integration of survey research and data science is happening very slowly, if at all. This conference will focus on methods and applications for combining survey data with big data for population estimation, projection, and inference. Conference organizers will seek a balanced representation of speakers and participants from the computer and data science communities and the survey research community. Special effort will be made to recruit researchers from academia, government, multiple international communities and locations, and underrepresented groups. The conference program will include paper sessions, poster sessions, short courses, and a kick-off data challenge.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.