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Dora Costa, Organizer |
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December 11, 2015 |
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California Center for Population
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Program |
Friday, December 11
8:30 am Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Dora Costa, University of California
at Los Angeles and NBER
Welcome and Introduction
9:15 am Evan
Roberts, University of Minnesota
Measuring the ANZACs: Crowdsourcing
a Complete Transcription of WWI Soldiers through Zooniverse
10:05 am Christopher Roudiez,
NBER
GIS
Mapping of 7 Major US Cities, 1830-1930
10:35 am Break
10:55 am Noelle Yetter, NBER
From
Free-Form Records to Machine Readable Data: The Union Army Project background
materials: http://uadata.org/user_meeting/
12:10 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Sven
Wilson, Brigham Young University
Sources of
Bias in Using Historical Administrative Data: The Union Army Records
2:20 pm Louis
Nguyen, Brigham & Women's Hospital
Interpreting Nineteenth and Early
Twentieth Century Medical Records: The Union Army Surgeons' Reports https://www.dropbox.com/s/6wt8yguvdl846by/Nguyen%20UA%20Surgeons%20Report.2015.12.11b.pptx?dl=0
3:10 pm Break
3:30 pm Evan
Roberts, University of Minnesota
Big Data for Economic and
Demographic History: The MPC-Ancestry Complete Count American Census Series
4:20 pm Roundtable on Linkage
4:50 pm Dora Costa, University of California
at Los Angeles and NBER
Wrap-up
5:00 pm Adjourn
7:00 pm Group Dinner
Napa Valley Grille – Westwood
1100 Glendon Avenue #100
Los Angeles, CA