2025 sees the 10th year of the CODATA-RDA School of Research Data Science (SoRDS) and Advanced Workshops on Research Data Science, organised in collaboration with and hosted by the ICTP.
To mark this occasion, alumni of SoRDs are organising two of the four Advanced Workshops!
The deadline for applications for the Advanced Workshops and for the School is 25 May!
The CODATA-RDA Advanced Workshops for Research Data Science, 11-15 August: https://indico.ictp.
The advanced workshops are a week-long hands-on activity that exposes participants to advanced techniques/approaches in specialized areas. Participants are expected to have a suitable background or have participated in a prior Summer School part of of this activity.
Four applied/thematic workshops on Research Data Science will run in parallel:
Workshop 1: Big-Data Analytics
- Analysis of Large Scale Real-Time and Streaming Data
- Real time event processing, low latency query and visualization
- Hands-on sessions on Data ingesting and tools for capturing real time events/ streams, processing, low latency query and visualization
Workshop 2: Compute Infrastructure
- Data analysis tasks (from laptops to HPC platforms)
- Deploying and using applications (jupyter notebooks) on laptops and HPC clusters
- A look at large scale data analysis on Cloud Computing Platforms
Workshop 3: Urban Data Science (led by SoRDS alumni, Shaily Gandhi, Felix Emeka Anyiam and Neema Sumari)
- Foundations of Urban Data Science and Geospatial Analytics (data integration, ethics and FAIR data principles).
- Urban Data Creation, Integration, and Analysis Techniques (using tools like QGIS, Google Earth Engine, on spatial data modelling, urban land use change detection, and visual analytics).
- Health, Mobility, and Sustainability (mapping and tracing disease, mobility patterns).
- Predictive Modeling and Decision Support for Smart Cities (machine learning models to forecast urban dynamics e.g population growth, infrastructure, climate change and health risk).
Workshop 4: Ocean Science Data (led by SoRDS alumnus Ibukun Adewumi, and colleagues from UNESCO IOC Africa)
- FAIR ocean data stewardship through enhanced discoverability of metadata, sharing of best practices, co-developing standards, and dataset documentation.
- Ocean observation to data services using real workflows from acquisition to dissemination via platforms like ODIS and GLOSS.
- Applied ocean data analytics with open-source platforms to facilitate modelling of coastal dynamics & processes for data-driven decision making
- Marine biodiversity data practices using OBIS for species distribution mapping, data submission, and regional ecosystem assessments.
The CODATA-RDA School for Research Data Science, 28 July-8 August: https://indico.ictp.