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SUMMARY:\"Dismal data scientists? The data revolution in economics\"
DESCRIPTION:As part of International Open Access Week, the Library inv
 ites you to a lecture by\nDr. Aidan Kane, Lecturer in Economics at NUI
  Galway\n                              Â
  Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â  on\nWednesday 25 October at 13:00 (refreshments 
 will be served at 12:45)\n                      
                     in\nThe Bridge Room, Floor 1, Hardi
 man Research Building, NUI Galway\nThe title of this lecture is:\n\"Di
 smal data scientists? The data revolution in economics\"\nEconomics is
  experiencing a data revolution which is transforming how data is coll
 ected, stored, and analysed. The talk provides a non-specialist overvi
 ew of the challenges and opportunities of this revolution for economic
 s, linking them especially to how other disciplines, and new fields, a
 re evolving. Particular challenges for economics concern how tradition
 al empirical analyses relate to the ‘new data analytics’ now emerg
 ing from computer science, and which are having enormous impacts on bu
 siness practice. Particular opportunities arise for economics in the s
 cale and granularity of data on the economy increasingly available, an
 d insights at both micro and macro levels these afford. Dr Kane will o
 ffer some reflections on the consequence for economics education as we
 ll as research practice.\nRegister via Eventbrite\n\nFor more informat
 ion visit http://legacy.openaccessweek.org/events/dismal-data-scientis
 ts-the-data-revolution-in-economics
DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Midway:20171025T130000
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LOCATION:Ireland
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