DataScience@NIH Updates from the NIH Interim Associate Director for Data Science

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. We are considering ways to better share DataScience@NIH news with you. Please send your feedback on this newsletter via email to grace.middleton@nih.gov. We look forward to your comments and strengthening our outreach efforts. DataScience@NIH  New This Week: The bioCADDIE DDICC Core Team is pleased to announce the release of DataMed v3.0! DataMed is designed to be for data what PubMed has been for scientific literature. This version of the Data Discovery Index (DDI) prototype includes many additional datasets and reflects considerable user/stakeholder input. The user interface has also been updated to reflect this input. Your feedback is welcome via the issue tracker included on the landing page. For more information about DataMed v3.0, email: biocaddie@ucsd.edu or Anupama.E.Gururaj@uth.tmc.edu. Data Science Rotation for Advancing Discovery Trip (RoAD-Trip) The BD2K Training Coordinating Center (TCC) has developed the Data Science Rotations for Advancing Discovery (RoAD-Trip) program to specifically foster new collaborations among junior biomedical researchers and senior-level data scientists to address the challenge of translating complex data into new knowledge. Application are due September 16, 2017 Darpa Wants to Build a BS Detector for Science: https://www.wired.com/story/darpa-bs-detector-science Reminders You May Need  Data Science Opportunities: The BD2K Training Coordinating Center has been creating and populating the Educational Resource Discovery Index (ERuDIte), a database of 10,000+ data science educational resources from collective BD2K activities and from around the web. Learn More: http://www.bigdatau.org/. Find the ERuDite search box at the top of the page to access the database. To contribute your feedback, contact John Van Horn at: jvanhorn@usc.edu. Data Science Events: The BD2K Center for Predictive Computational Phenotyping (CPCP) will co-sponsor a Big Data Analytics-as-a-Service workshop. The first workshop on Big data analytics-as-a-Service: Architecture, Algorithms, and Applications in Health Informatics is taking place on August 14, 2017 (in conjunction with KDD 2017) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The workshop will consist of a combination of invited keynote speakers, panel discussion, and paper/poster presentations.  The Principle Investigator of the BD2K ENIGMA Consortium, Dr. Paul Thompson, will present the Keynote Lecture at the Cognomics Conference being held September 7-8, 2017 in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Registration for this conference is now open. Registration is open for the California Big Data to Knowledge Workshop September 15, 2017. Register or learn more about the workshop: http://bd2k.ini.usc.edu/caconsortium/2017meeting/.   Submissions: We welcome your input! Submissions must be received prior to 12:00 noon ET on Monday to be included in that same week's edition. If you are requesting attendance at an event by Federal employees, it is recommended that you submit your event information a minimum of one month in advance. To submit a news item, contact: Grace.Middleton@nih.gov.  Follow DataScience@NIH on  Twitter and  Facebook. This service is provided to you at no charge by the Office of Communication and Public Liaison. This email was sent using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: U.S. National Library of Medicine · 8600 Rockville Pike · Bethesda, MD 20894