Advances in Interactive Knowledge Discovery

A worldwide challenge in health systems is how to deal with big data. The trend towards personalized medicine has resulted in an explosion in the amount of complex data. The BIRS Workshop 15w2181 was dedicated to stimulate the cross-domain integration and appraisal of different fields towards tackling the grand challenge of discovering knowledge in complex data sets. The workshop brought together ten international well-known researchers and two young female students from Canada, Europe, Japan, and the United States, with diverse backgrounds, complementary competencies, but common interests and a shared vision: to make sense of big and complex data sets. The workshop particularly tried to contribute advancements in promising novel areas at the intersection of machine learning and topological data science.