{"id":688,"date":"2010-08-16T20:40:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2010-08-16T20:40:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:40:29","slug":"why-do-we-go-to-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/why-do-we-go-to-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do we go to Conferences?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew pointed to a <a href=\"http:\/\/behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com\/2010\/07\/peer-reviewing-for-oral-presentations.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stat.columbia.edu\/~cook\/movabletype\/archives\/2010\/07\/why_dont_we_hav.html\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>, by Panos Ipeirotis\u00a0who asked the question, why we do not use peer reviewing for conference talks in the same way we are used to it for journal papers.<\/p>\n<p>His idea (which is not coming up the first time, and this year&#8217;s InfoVis worked pretty much this way) is to improve the overall quality of presentations, as we all have been sitting in boring or technically disastrous talks, which we would have liked to have seen improved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hadley\/3834387023\/sizes\/z\/in\/pool-595174@N23\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"JSM 2009 joint Stat Graphics and Computing Mixer\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3422\/3834387023_28f8041faf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As you can see from the image above, taken at the joint stat. computing and stat. graphics mixer at the 2009 JSM, I see a very important point of conference in the informal meetings around talks. Here is my comment on Andrew&#8217;s blog:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>This idea might be interesting, but I think it totally misses the idea of oral presentations at conferences.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Conferences are for meeting people and exchanging ideas &#8211; that is what brings research forward. Having a reviewing process will destroy most of it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>What about being provocative and spontaneous? The reviewing would destroy all of this spice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>What is the point of a conference, which essentially gives us journal papers read aloud?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew pointed to a blog post on his blog, by Panos Ipeirotis\u00a0who asked the question, why we do not use peer reviewing for conference talks in the same way we are used to it for journal papers. His idea (which is not coming up the first time, and this year&#8217;s InfoVis worked pretty much this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}