PopInfo 2015 - 1st International Workshop on Population Informatics for Big Data (PopInfo)

Social genomes are the digital footprints of individuals. They consist of records about people's interactions with governments, businesses, and other individuals, as collected and linked from many data sources. Social genomes are the basis of Population Informatics, the emerging discipline of studying populations by analyzing large population databases that contain detailed information about people, such as the health, education, financial, census, location, shopping, employment, or social networking records of a large proportion of individuals in a population.
Population Informatics is a crucial enabling technology to understand our rapidly changing dynamic societies. It is transforming how researchers in many domains address the global challenges we face today, and how businesses and governments make decisions. Population informatics can realize the potential of Big Data by employing methods such as data mining, data integration, visualization, health informatics, statistics, computational social science, and privacy technologies, on the increasingly large digital traces of individuals. It will provide fresh insights into many domains, for example the social sciences, public health, and demographics, to inform government policies and improve business processes.
PopInfo'15 will be an interdisciplinary workshop and we call for papers on both data mining algorithms and techniques for Population Informatics, as well as papers about applications of Population Informatics in diverse areas.