Event Details

NCSEM Seminar Series: Learning from Big Data in Sport and Physical Activity

February 8,2017

This inaugural sport and social science seminar series is made up of six events structured around the key themes of the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine.

This seminar will be on the topic of Learning from Big Data in Sport and Physical Activity.

Data is all around us, huge quantities are collected at every opportunity by a vast array of modern technologies. This "Big Data" is having effects on many aspects of modern life, including healthcare. Sport and exercise medicine researchers are contributing to this data collection and analysis in many different and exciting ways. This seminar will discuss current concepts in how we can use Big Data in Physical Activity and Sports Medicine to improve health and wellbeing.

The events will facilitate interdisciplinary cooperation and mutual understanding across the bio and social sciences and feature a broad spectrum of speakers from the area of sport, health and medicine. They will be of interest to:

• biomedical and social scientists
• healthcare practitioners
• sports policy makers
• third sector bodies engaged with sport-related health and medicine research

Programme

10am Registries and Big Data for Orthopaedics and Sports Injuries: Prof Fares Haddad, (ISEH)

10:30am Intergenerational influences on physical activity: Prof Mark Hamer (Loughborough)

11:00am Characterising behavioural phenotypes from accelerometer data: Aiden Doherty (University of Oxford)

11.30am Break

12pm Setting up an open source database for sports data and tracking health and activity data: Prof Philip Treleaven (UCL)

12.30pm Applying machine learning to football data: Stylianos Kampakis, (UCL) 

1pm Lunch 

2pm Genetics in Sport and Exercise: Alun Williams, (Manchester Met)

2.30pm Tracking mobility over large scale: Professor Fabio Ciravegna (University of Sheffield)

3pm Close

Location:

ISEH, 170 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7HA