The CCSD

Objectives and projects

Objectives

targeted Population

Projects 2020-23


Promoting interdisciplinary and critical research in data science

Experts in data science

The UNIGE Data Science Days are a two-day scientific symposium which will take place in June 2021. For the first edition, the theme will be “Epidemics and (Big) Data: contributions and challenges of data science in the study of diffusion phenomena ”.

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Three seminars per year will be organized around themes linked to data processing. These themes were highlighted by the researchers gathered during the April plenary session. In 2020-21, Data Science Seminars will address the following themes "Data quality and bias", "International collaboration and sharing of data", and "Data status and protection".

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Every year, the CCSD launchs the "Data Science Impulse" grant, intended to support the development of a project led by an interdisciplinary team of UNIGE researchers, on a different theme.

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Facilitating the transformation of UNIGE researchers' scientific practices through the development of data science service

Researchers

On a bimonthly basis, an interdisciplinary meeting will be organized to allow researchers - who have requested it - to share with data science experts certain concrete problems they encounter in the treatment of their research data. To be dealt with during these sessions, these questions must have the potential to give rise to the development of mutually beneficial collaborations between these researchers (publications or joint research projects).

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Data Science Tools is a new meeting format launched in October 2021, where a researcher presents a data science tool (method, software, etc.) he/she uses in her/his research, in order to facilitate its adoption by her/his peers.

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In order to promote permanent exchange between CCSD members, the network of data science experts will remain accessible at all times through the creation of a platform allowing members to interact on specific questions.

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Supporting the development of the transversal training offer in data science at the UNIGE

Students

Developed within the framework of the "Digital Skills" program of Swissuniversities, the "Data Science for All" project intends to feed the training dimension of the CCSD, by enhancing the great diversity of courses and seminars given in data science at UNIGE by opening up access to them outside the faculty silos. To do this, it proposes to accompany their digitization in the form of educational video capsules that will be made available to the entire UNIGE community via a dedicated web platform.

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The Center will support the establishment of a Summer School in data science in the summer of 2021.

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Improving the visibility and accessibility of UNIGE's expertise in data science

Community

In order to make visible and accessible the expertise of UNIGE collaborators in data science outside, but also inside our institution, an interactive skills directory will be integrated into the Centre's website.

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In order to reach a wider audience, the Center will publish podcasts presenting the research of its members on a monthly basis.

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Based on possible proposals from members of the Center and depending on the resources available, conferences for the general public can be organized on specific research themes.

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