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Workshop on Empirical Research with Large Datasets

19 Dec. 2022 to 20 Dec. 2022

19 Dec. 14:00-18:30 | 20 Dec. 09:30-12:30

Porto Business School
Av. Fabril do Norte 425
Porto

Banco de Portugal is pleased to invite you to participate in the Workshop on Empirical Research with Large Datasets, promoted by the Banco de Portugal Microdata Research Laboratory (BPLIM), to be held on December, 19 and 20, at Porto Business School, Porto.

The event will be on-site, with limited seats. The event will also be streamed live, with no limit to participants online. Register here to watch the event online.

For more information, please contact us bplim@bportugal.pt.

Program
19 December 2022
14:00-14:15	Welcome
14:15-15:00	“Reproducibility and collaboration when your data is really large or confidential” Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University and American Economic Association
15:00-15:45	“Big Data Analytics: A guide to economists making the transition to Big Data” Ulrich Matter, University of St.Gallen
15:45-16:15	Coffee Break
16:15-17:00	“Large surveys and other continuous data streams in statistics production” Frauke Kreuter, LMU Munich and University of Maryland
17:00-17:45	“Thoughts on Working with Corporate Data” John Horton, MIT Sloan School of Management and NBER
17:45-18:30	Roundtable: “The challenges of working with large empirical datasets in RDCs” Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University and American Economic Association Paulo Guimarães, BPLIM - Banco de Portugal Pedro Campos, Instituto Nacional Estatística (INE) Stefan Bender, Deutsche Bundesbank
20 December 2022
09:30-10:00	Breakfast
10:00-10:45	“How to work efficiently with large datasets” Mauricio Caceres, Brown University
10:45-11:30	“Open source tools for really large data” Miguel Portela and Nelson Areal, Universidade do Minho
11:30-12:15	“Why is my computer so slow? How distributed computing can help you with data intensive workloads” Jannic Cutura, European Central Bank
12:15-12:30	Closing Remarks