Agenda

Workshop on: High Dimensional Small Data

which will be held in Venice on 19-20 October, 2018 Sala Archivio - Ca’ Foscari University.
 
Workshop description

Most contemporary large-scale problems in fields such as biology and economics involve a huge number of features that may affect properties and dynamics of the system under study. In order to understand and evaluate the role played by these features in the system’s processes, very large data sets are generally collected, analyzed and modelled. Sometimes, however, obtaining data is very costly from an economic, ethical or environmental point of view, and the discovery and analysis of relevant explanatory features must be conducted on small sets of data, indeed the smallest possible. In such situations, fewer experiments mean less resources required, less possible harmful manipulation of living organisms, less polluting effects. The challenge in such cases is how to study high dimensional problems, achieving reliable interpretations and accurate predictions, with a relatively small set of experiments or observations.  The goal of this workshop is to explore different research perspectives and identify modelling opportunities to obtain meaningful information from high dimensional small data (the world of p>>n).

website:  www.unive.it/high-dimensional-small-data