Carolina Data Science Now: Series Kickoff: Usual and Unusual Suspects in Data Science

We invite UNC faculty and staff to join us for the inaugural Carolina Data Science Now Webinar. This month's theme is "Usual and Unusual Suspects.

Dr. Terry Magnuson, UNC Vice Chancellor for Research, will give opening remarks. The event will feature three lightning talks by professors and researchers in UNC-Chapel Hill's academic community, centered around how data science is used in a broad range of disciplines. These talks will be followed by a guided panel and an opportunity for questions and answers with the speakers. We hope you will enjoy discovering how data science underpins and influences research and daily life.

Speakers:

Kathryn Desplanque, Department of Art & Art History: Kathryn Desplanque is a mixed-race, Black and white, scholar who came to UNC after holding the Carolina Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity. She specializes in 18th and 19th-century European visual culture. She works with Digital Humanities methodologies, building and querying relational databases to study hundreds of images. Her talk will discuss satirical images of artistic life in Paris published from 1750 - 1850 using Qualitative Data Analysis.

Corbin Jones, Departments of Biology and Genetics: Corbin Jones works in the UNC departments of biology and genetics. The goal of his research is to identify, clone, and characterize the evolution of genes underlying natural adaptations in order to determine the types of genes involved, how many and what types of genetic changes occurred, and the evolutionary history of these changes. His talk will discuss the analysis of spatial genomic data and leveraging ecological research to better understand new data sets.

Timothy Shea, Department of Classics: Timothy Shea is an Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology at UNC. He received his B.A. in Greek and Latin from Tulane University and his Ph.D. in Art History from Duke University. His research interests are in the art, archaeology, and topography of ancient Greece in the Archaic and Classical periods. His talk will discuss the Spatial Antiquity Lab, a space dedicated to research and teaching in Spatial Humanities and focused on the study of ancient cities and urbanism.

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