Unconference 2025
Info
- our fourth annual community day of chat, presentations, and discussion
- Wednesday 17th December 2025 09.30-16:30
- entirely free and flexible: drop in for ten minutes or come for the whole day
- live on Teams
- free and open to all - here’s the registration link
- no recordings because everything is a social session, but will disseminate any shareable materials via the network
Schedule
- 09:30-10:00 welcome and chat
- 10:00-10:30 Tufte and anti-Tufte - thinking about the rules of visualising data, and how/when to break them for pleasure and for profit
- 10:30-11:00 Version control - how do the community actually do version control? Expect to run the gamut from GitHub to
v06_final_final_use_this.docx
- 11:00-11:30 Synthetic data - the how/why/when of making data up
- 13:00-13:30 Second interview with the vampire - stories from the recruitment front line, including finding out who got a great new job this year
- 13:30-14:00 Epidemiology 101 - ask a (brave) epidemiologist lots of technical questions
- 14:00-15:00 Tools: “I use x for y because z” - a quickfire session where people recommend new tools they know and love
- 15:30-16:00 Folk beliefs about LLMs - not a joke, but also not not a joke. A free-range session discussing what we believe about large language models, and how that rubs up against how LLMs really are
- 16:00-16:30 What do you want from the network next year?
