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DataScience4Development</span></a><o:p></o:p></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:gray">The South African research community is moving beyond metrics to measure research impact. In a research-intensive environment,
data scientists contribute to real-world problems in public health, education, sustainable energy, climate change, economic development, and many more areas of trans- and interdisciplinary research. This conference will explore the practice, principles and
challenges of data science in knowledge production and decision-making for societal benefit.
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<h1><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:white">Focus areas</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h1>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Chasing the “R” in FAIR data: the sharing and re-use of data and scientific software as supplementary research outputs.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#F2F2F2;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:150%;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%">
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Call for abstracts: 15 October 2018<br>
Registration opens: 15 October 2018<br>
Call for abstracts closes: 15 January 2018<br>
Notification of acceptance of abstracts: 15 February 2019<br>
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