While we did not strictly monitor the attendance at the symposium, registration data suggested that the majority of participants were postdocs and graduate students.
The symposium, "From Big Data To Big Ideas," was mainly a celebration of the promise of the technology in fields from health care to transportation, with presentations from Columbia professors and computer scientists from companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Bloomberg.
Several dedicated academic venues address the topic including, for example, the Symposium on Biological Data Visualization and the EG Workshop on Visual Computing for Biomedicine.
The symposium presenters shared data that showed that HEV infection is endemic to industrialized and developing countries.
A highlight of the symposium was new data presented by M Munz (Munich, Germany, manuscript submitted) that unravelled the entire pathway of EpCAM signalling from the cell membrane into the nucleus.
The symposium from which data from this review was discussed ("Diabetes in Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders: A Call to Action") was "a call to action" to address diabetes among AANHPI populations and highlighted the specific differences, enormous diversity, and broad challenges that face health care providers as well as patients with diabetes (Table 2).
A large amount of research articles have been included in the publications of two international conferences of Symposia on Spatial Accuracy Assessment and Symposia on Spatial Data Quality.
To collect in-depth qualitative data from Symposium attendees, we conducted 10-min semi-structured interviews with question prompts addressing each of the five Symposium objectives (see Supplementary File 2).
The preëminence of eye over nose was apparent even in the symposium abstract, which touted data that "shed new light" and opened up "yet new vistas".
(a) At Humanosphere Science School 2012 in Indonesia and (b) at United Nations data analysis symposium 2012 at Graz, Austria.
