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Barcamp is quite a new event for the scientific and technological community. In full generality, it is an “unconference”, a meeting where everyone can contribute, presenting a topic and generating a discussion. In this paper, we propose the BarCamp as an innovative way of producing and communicating statistical knowledge, and we describe the experiment held at Politecnico di Milano, entitled “Technology Foresight and Statistics for the Future”.
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BarCamp is one of the activities planned for celebrating the 150th anniversary of Politecnico di Milano. The authors wish to thank the organizers of S.Co. Conference and the Department of Mathematics of Politecnico di Milano.
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Appendix: The structure of the BarCamp Held at Politecnico di Milano
Appendix: The structure of the BarCamp Held at Politecnico di Milano
streams = list("Visualizing Data", "Technology for the
future and Big Data", "Computational Statistics");
// Take part to the facebook discussions and add new streams!!!
sport = list("Football", "Volleyball");
switch(time){
case [9.30 - 10:30]: activity= "Opening and Registration";
case [10.30 - 11.00]: activity= "Welcome activities";
case [11.00 - 13.00]: activity= "Camp";
// the winners of the BarCamp competition lead the discussion
// Vujacic I. and Zhou D.
case [13.00 - 15.00]: activity= "Lunch and Posters";
case [15.00 - 17.30]: activity= "Streams";
print(streams);
// the winners of the BarCamp competition lead the discussion
// Canale A. and Pigoli D.
case [17.30]: activity= "Closing";
// the BarCamp goes on with free discussion, sports and leisure
case [17.30 - 20.00]: activity= "Sport/leisure activities";
print(sport);
case [19.30 - 21.00]: activity= "Dinner";
case [20.30 - 23.00]: activity= "Concert";
}
> print(streams);
> [1] "Visualizing Data"
//Do designers do it better?
> [2] "Technology for the future and big data"
//Remote Sensing
//Statistical Process Control
//How big data are improving and transforming healthcare
//Big data analysis in genomics
> [4] "Computational Statistics"
//Challenges of computing in statistical modeling
//Parallel computing
//Numerical issues
//MCMC
> print(sport);
> [1] "Football"
> [2] "Volleyball"
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Azzimonti, L. et al. (2015). BarCamp: Technology Foresight and Statistics for the Future. In: Paganoni, A., Secchi, P. (eds) Advances in Complex Data Modeling and Computational Methods in Statistics. Contributions to Statistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11149-0_4
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