MeasureDev 2020 will be held online via Zoom on Tuesday, March 31st, from 9 AM ¨C 2:30 PM PDT / 12 PM ¨C 5:30 PM EDT. Instructions for accessing the conference agenda and Zoom links, along with a final agenda, will be provided to registered participants in the coming days.
Sessions will highlight how sources of ¡°big¡± data¨Cincluding call detail records, satellites, and remote sensing networks¨Care changing the landscape of global development, while hybrid approaches that enrich big data with survey data enable exciting new analytical opportunities. A keynote by CEGA Faculty co-Director Joshua Blumenstock will showcase opportunities to stitch together large-scale behavioral datasets with ground-truth survey data to better understand human and economic development. For researchers whose field work has been impacted by the spread of COVID-19, we hope the event will spark ideas and conversation regarding alternatives to traditional field-based data collection.
A list of confirmed speakers for the online conference and a link to register is available on our . Please register ASAP so that we can be sure to send you the full agenda and appropriate Zoom links before the event starts.