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Supporting science investments with small and big data solutions. Washington DC, September 2014. www.uberresearch.com [email protected] Tel +49-171-5678917. Ü berResearch helps funding and research institutions better understand and report on their portfolios, - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Washington DC, September 2014
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ÜberResearch helps funding and research institutions
better understand and report on their portfolios,
looking internally and comparing globally.
www.uberresearch.com
Tel +49-171-5678917
Supporting science investments with small and big data solutions
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About ÜberResearch
About us
• Team’s 10+ year experience delivering tools and services for funding and research institutions
• Over 20 development partners
• Released version 2.0 of our portfolio analysis and planning support solution last week
• Active member of standards and data initiatives, examples: CASRAI, ORCID, CrossRef / FundRef, TAG
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Science investments – on various levels…
• Supra-national level
• National level
Charity organizations
• Corporate R&D
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Science is not happening in silos…
Source: Scimago
Institutions are working together…
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Science is not happening in silos…
Researchers are collaborating…
8500 physicians publishing on hepatitis C displayed as a co-author network…
Source: Andy Lamb, Co-authorship network map of physicians publishing on hepatitis C
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Science investments – on various levels…
Grants
Grants
Grants
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A lot of mutual interest…
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Transmission timeline from idea to impact…
idea
application
grant
1-5 years
publication
citations
conference
2-3 years
3-8 years
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Global Shared Award Database
• Grant portfolios from 60+ funders
• More than 1.3 million grants and growing
• More than $600 billion funding
• About $166 billion of future research
• Open for funders to join and benefit from
– analytical capabilities
– public use cases – ÜberWizard for ORCID
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Horizon 2020…
28 countries …
are going to spend €80 billion on research in the next 6 years- together
in addition to their national research funding
No database covering the 29 portfolios to support the alignment of funding streams
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Isolated Island or Continents?
• Or does the funding from other funders support the proposed project?
• Beyond the proven record based on publications etc.?
• Research organizations get funding from various funders – both national and internationally
• Is the proposed research an isolated project not supported by other funding?
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… and we experienced why it does not exist and why even compelling use cases never led to the creation…
DataEnrichment
Data model mapping
Institution disambiguation
Person disambiguation
Data cleansing / data curation
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… and implemented a functional layer of services to create value from the data…
DataEnrichment
Functional layer
Data model mapping
Institution disambiguation
Person disambiguation
Search / Analysis
Clustering / topic modelling
Research classification support
Visualisation support APIs
NLP / noun phrase extraction
Data cleansing / data curation
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DataEnrichment
Functional layer
Data model mapping
Institution disambiguation
Person disambiguation
Search / Analysis
Clustering / topic modelling
Research classification support
Visualisation support APIs
NLP / noun phrase extraction
Data cleansing / data curation
Application layer
… and built an end user application for smaller funders – ready to go.
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DataEnrichment
Functional layer
Data model mapping
Institution disambiguation
Person disambiguation
Search / Analysis
Clustering / topic modelling
Research classification support
Visualisation support APIs
NLP / noun phrase extraction
Data cleansing / data curation
Application layer
Partner and customer application scenarios
… and built an end user application for smaller funders – ready to go.
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A few examples which I was able to pull up in seconds…
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Global funding for a specific area of research… Amytrophic Lateral Scleriosis
• How should the ‘exceptional’ $100 million be used?
• Tricky situation – since a one time effect can cause also negative effects
• Infrastructure needs ongoing funding etc.
• Let’s have a look on the first current situation
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Different Screens here…
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Comparing portfolios…
• Petri dishes…
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Comparing portfolios…
• Petri dishes…
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Comparing portfolios…
• Petri dishes…
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More practical – Reviewer identification
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Ashlea Higgs, co-founder…