Girls Hack Ireland

Data, Research & Girls Hack Ireland

Dr Suzanne Little

Dublin City University

suzanne.little@dcu.ie

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Insight Centre for Data Analytics

350+ RESEARCHERS 8 INSTITUTIONS €88M FUNDING UNLIMITED INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIPS

SFI Research Centre Programme

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Girls Hack Ireland

• 100 girls, 15-17yrs (~transition year)

• 90 mentors plus support staff

• Hosted at DCU with lunch, demos, tech sponsors

• 8 hours

• Mission: re-mix or build a website on the theme “New Ireland”

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Girls Hack Ireland: Next

• Hardware Hackathon at Inspire Fest 2015

• 20th June, Merrion Square

• www.insight-centre.org/GirlsHackIreland

• Follow @GirlsHackIE for more

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1. Informed decision making to improve participation in STEM (for everyone!)

2. Interesting and useful data sets for hack days

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The Data Analytics Researcher

• Consumer of data

– Volume

– Variety

– Quality

• Producer of data

– Formats, standards, preservation

– Ethics

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www.insight-centre.org/GirlsHackIreland @GirlsHackIE

www.insight-centre.org @insight_centre

Dr Suzanne Little suzanne.little@dcu.ie http://webpages.dcu.ie/~littles @suz_research