Conveners
DIRISA
- Chair: Anwar Vahed (CSIR)
DIRISA
- Dale Peters (UCT)
DIRISA
- Chair: Isak van der Walt (University of Pretoria)
In July 2018, MeerKAT started its science mission. One of the 5-year legacy programs on MeerKAT is the ThunderKAT large survey project which aims to understand the astrophysical processes in stellar explosions and other energetic outbursts in the sky. In these objects, dramatic changes can occur on very short time scales. In this talk, I will highlight the data challenges of data intensive...
Funders of repositories and those who entrust their valuable data to them need to know whether their funds and their confidence are well placed. Stakeholder concerns are addressed in the international standard measure applied to the repository as being worthy of trust. While trust is a complicated concept, the meaning applicable here is that of a confident expectation that the data will be...
The reducing cost of genomic data generation has outpaced Moore’s Law resulting in many countries starting national genomic initiatives to better represent their populations and create the foundations for precision medicine programs. Programs such as H3Africa seek to generate and leverage genomic data for specific health related research within diverse African populations. Genomic data, unlike...
Historically, information literacy formed a critical core function in the process of teaching, learning and research. The concepts of information retrieval, processing and verification became synonymous throughout the research lifecycle. Today however information literacy has expanded to accommodate the vast possibilities of teaching, learning and research afforded by the advances in...
The first Summer School took place in Pretoria during January 2020. The talk will report on our experience and also share the process going forward.
Postgraduates across Africa do not have access to foundational data science and open research training that will allow them to become part of a growing community of researchers, if not fully skilled, at least understanding the rules of...
Author/Presenter: Boniface Akuku, Director, Information and Communication Technology at the Kenya Agricultural Research and Livestock Organization(KALRO)
The pressure to manage and utilize available data to improve agricultural productivity continues to increase, yet several challenges exist. The fast-growing population exacerbates the problem in a period of environmental variability....
