Data Visualization for Biology: a practical workshop on design, techniques and tools
We would like to invite you to 'Data Visualization for Biology: a practical workshop on design, techniques and tools' - a workshop jointly organized by KU Leuven ESAT/STADIUS, EMBL-EBI
and VIB, taking place in Leuven
from 23 to 27 November 2015.
As biological datasets increase in size and complexity, we are moving more and more from an hypothesis-driven research paradigm to a data-driven one. As a result, exploration of that
data has become even more crucial than in the past.
In this 5-day workshop, we will dive into the topic of
biological data visualization and how it can be used to gain insight in and get a "feel" for a dataset, so that targeted analyses can be defined. We will start by covering theoretical questions
like: What is data visualization? How do we perceive images? How can we visualise data in the best possible way? As the workshop continues, it will become more and more hands-on and interactive; a large part will be committed to creating visualisations using
the D3 javascript library, including 2-day projects creating interactive visualisations based on data brought by the students themselves.
Confirmed speakers and instructors:
·
Jan Aerts
(KU Leuven ESAT/STADIUS, Belgium)
·
Eamonn Maguire (University of Oxford, UK)
·
Francis Rowland
(EMBL-EBI, UK)
·
Marc Streit (Johannes Kepler University Linz,
Austria)
·
Herwig Van Marck
(VIB BioInformatics Training and Service facility, Belgium)
Have a look at the
training website and sign up to join us from 23 to 27 November 2015 in Leuven (KU Leuven ESAT/STADIUS).
Please get in touch, if you need further information.
Best regards,
Alexander
VIB BITS, on behalf of the organizers
