Apologies: Ver 1.0 Call for Papers

[Tom Johnson]

 <dcrumbl at lsu.edu>My apologies. This is the message format you should have
received.
-tj

Friends:

Just a gentle reminding nudge that proposals for Ver 1.0 --
http://www.ver1point0.org/
<http://www.ver1point0.org/>-- are due Nov. 15. And we're looking forward to
yours.

-tj


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Ver 1.0
A workshop on public database verification
for journalists and social scientists

April 9-12, 2006
Santa Fe, NM USA

Sponsored by the Institute for Analytic Journalism
http://www.analyticjournalism.com

THE CHALLENGE::
An uncountable number of public agency databases have been created in
the past 30 years. More and more, public and private decision-makers
draw on this collected, digital data to make decisions about
everything from disciplining doctors to zoning decisions to law
enforcement to deciding who gets to vote. The often-unquestioned
assumption is that the data, as found, analyzed and presented by a
government or quasi-government agency, is valid. Increasingly,
anecdotal evidence indicates that data is riddled with serious errors.
Often, if initial investigations indicate the data is too suspect --
and the cost to clean the data by hand or automatically too high --
then good and important analysis and investigations are put aside.

THE FOCUS:
Twenty participants in the three-day workshop will explore developing
statistical and other methodological tools suitable for social
scientists, biomedical and behavioral researchers, journalists and
other interested investigators to determine the veracity of public
records databases.
-- Participants will learn how reporters and public administrators
discovered, analyzed, verified and corrected public databases.
-- Participants will learn how biomedical researchers, social
scientists and investigators from other disciplines cope with the
record validation problem.
-- Participants, in small-group breakout sessions, will develop
first-phase experimental strategies to ultimately measure the validity
of databases.
-- The intent is to approach the problem of database veracity at a
high theoretical/experimental level while constantly keeping in mind
the pragmatic needs of analysts.

THE PARTICIPANTS::
By invitation based on proposals for submitted papers and
presentations. Eight to ten journalists with track records of
high-concept involvement in analytic journalism and who have
demonstrated in-depth knowledge of database sciences will participate.
An equal number of participants will be biomedical researchers,
public administrators, data-mining experts, statisticians, forensic
accountants, computer scientists and social scientists interested in
the problem of database veracity.

Deadlines:
?Submission of proposal: Nov. 15, 2005
?Notification of acceptance: Dec. 15, 2005
?Submission of final paper: March 15, 2006
?Workshop sessions: April 9-12, 2006

More detailed information found at:

http://www.ver1point0.org/
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We look forward to your participation.

-Tom Johnson


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J. T. Johnson
Institute for Analytic Journalism
www.analyticjournalism.com <http://www.analyticjournalism.com>
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"He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense."
-John McCarthy, Stanford University mathematician
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