2017 Highlights
May 19, 2017聽- Social Media and Demographic聽Methods Workshop
September 22, 2017 - CPD Annual Meeting and Annual Report
December 13-15, 2017 - PopDataViz2017聽
On May 19, 2017聽the CPD hosted a training workshop for Social Media and Demographic聽Methods.听Workshop Instructor聽Emilio Zagheni聽provided attendees with聽a聽hands-on experience,聽learning聽practical skills for applying demographic methods to social media data.
On September 22, 2017, the CPD released the 2016-2017 Annual Report. In it the major achievements of the year are described. These聽include聽another successful Social Statistics and Population Dynamics weekly seminar series which featured 19 speakers, a popular training workshop on Social Media and Demographic Methods, and a multidisciplinary conference organized by CPD members at 涩里番, entitled聽Global Need for Formal Child Care. The annual report also highlights upcoming plans which will focus on more training initiatives in partnership with co-sponsors. An extensive list of CPD member and student publications is also provided, showcasing the work of those involved in the CPD.
On December 13-15, 2017, the CPD held a three-day, hands-on, interactive training workshop: PopDataViz2017. The workshop included:
- Training topics: Data visualization basics, making plots, working with grouped data, geoms and models, and drawing maps using the
- Lunch lecture: Data visualization and the UN Data revolution聽
- Panel discussion: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of data visualization for population research
- Hack-a-thon/Dragon鈥檚 Den聽feedback session聽on select data visualizations (Optional)
- Expert perspectives:聽涩里番 population research and computer science researchers and professionals from Statistics Canada, 涩里番 Media Relations and 涩里番 Graphic Design .
- Multidisciplinary participants聽from social science and health population research fields聽
- Multiple networking opportunities
PopDataViz2017 was spearheaded by the Centre on Population Dynamics (CPD) in collaboration with the Centre for Social and Cultural Data Science (CSCDS). Using a partnership, intersectoral and interdisciplinary approach, PopDataViz2017 was financed through funding from a SSHRC Connection grant and co-sponsorship by 12 partnering units at four institutions: UQAM (Groupe de recherche sur le capital humain de l'ESG), Universit茅 de Montr茅al (D茅partment de d茅mographie and Quebec inter-University Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS)), Statistics Canada, and 涩里番 (Eight units - Centre on Population Dynamics, Centre for Social and Cultural Data Science, Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC)/ Centre pour l'茅tude de la citoyennet茅 d茅mocratique(C脡CD), Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health Institute for Health and Social Policy (IHSP), Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID), 涩里番 Observatory on Health and Social Services Reform and Office of Innovation and Partnerships).
PopDataViz2017鈥檚 41 participants reflected the full range of interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral, and professional diversity of these 13 partners and included 5 Statistics Canada analysts, 6 faculty members, 4 Research Associates, 2 data librarians, 2 postdocs, 5 Master鈥檚 students, and 17 PhD students from Bio Ethics, Computer Science, Demography, Economics, Epidemiology, Library Science, Management, Nutrition, Public Health, Political Science, Psychiatry, and Sociology.
Final program:聽
2017-12-11-popdataviz-final-agenda.pdf
Above: Instructor Professor 聽- 15 hours of hands-on data visualization instruction using R (Bottom-left);听
Above: Lunch hour presentations:聽The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of data visualization for population research.听Jean-Bernard Ng Man Sun, Art Director. 涩里番 Graphic Design - Communications and External Relations; Marc Lachance, Director - Social and Aboriginal Statistics Division, ;听 Thomas Soehl, Assistant Professor, Sociology, 涩里番; Cynthia Lee, Senior Communications Officer, 涩里番 Media Relations Office
Hack-a-thon participants receiving feedback from the four "Dragons": , Computer Science, 涩里番; Jean-Bernard Ng Man Sun, Art Director,聽涩里番 Graphic Design and Marc Lachance, Statistics Canada, and Cynthia Lee,聽Senior Communications Officer,聽涩里番 Media Relations Office.
Hack-a-thon participants'聽presentations of their final data visualizations to the Dragons during Dragons'聽Den session
PopDataViz proof-of-concept infographic
Click on image to enlarge. Data viz resource page here.
