February 2018
Download introductory slides
This month was a hacking-only night. Thank you to our breakout group leaders:
Download introductory slides
This month was a hacking-only night. Thank you to our breakout group leaders:
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Laura Derenge for giving an overview of Tableau.
Damiano Fantini and Luca Lonini for continuing their regular learning group surrounding Kaggle, which seems to move towards deep-learning. Jason Chain and Rebecca Harmon for continuing their group on the comparison between the salaries and supplemental earnings of employees of the city of Chicago. |
Kevin Chao and Ben Nelson for our first code clinic and "bring-your-code".
Ali Ehlen and Ramya Gurunathan for introducing our newest attendees to data science. Thomas Stoeger for a single-evening project on health indicators within the city of Chicago. NICO for additional administrational help. |
January 2018
Download introductory slides (with current announcements of NUIT, NICO, Ce-PIM)
Thank you to our presenter, Joe Germuska, from the Knight lab of Media Journalism, for his fantastic talk on "Data Journalism: Big and Small" (download slides)
Thank you to our breakout group leaders:
Thank you to our presenter, Joe Germuska, from the Knight lab of Media Journalism, for his fantastic talk on "Data Journalism: Big and Small" (download slides)
Thank you to our breakout group leaders:
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Nicholas Wagner for teaching a group on building pipelines.
Damiano Fantini and Luca Lonini for continuing their regular learning group surrounding Kaggle, which seems to move towards deep-learning. Jason Chain and Rebecca Harmon for continuing their group on the comparison between the salaries and supplemental earnings of employees of the city of Chicago. Ali Ehlen and Ramya Gurunathan for introducing our newest attendees to data science. |
Tess Pottinger, from the Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Student group, and Sarah Ben Maamar, from the Postdoctoral Forum, for including the attendees of the data science night in the planning of an upcoming data science career event.
Our friends from NUIT for exchanging announcements, and our great institutional support from NICO - especially Yasmeen Khan and Justyna Gutowska for administrational help, and Andrew Marfia for announcements. |
November 2017
Download introductory slides
Thank you to our presenter, Adam Miller, LSSTC Data Science Fellow, for his overview of machine learning, "Scikit-learn Soup to Nuts: Developing a Machine-Learning Workflow"
Thank you to our breakout group leaders:
Download introductory slides
Thank you to our presenter, Adam Miller, LSSTC Data Science Fellow, for his overview of machine learning, "Scikit-learn Soup to Nuts: Developing a Machine-Learning Workflow"
Thank you to our breakout group leaders:
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Adam Miller for his fantastic talk on "Scikit-learn Soup to Nuts: Developing a Machine-Learning Workflow"
Damiano Fantini for identifying the potential for hacking nights for Northwestern's community, and for - together with Luca Lonini (also Postdoctoral Forum)- leading and establishing a regular learning group surrounding Kaggle. Nicholas Wagner for teaching a group on REST APIs. Noah Guale for initiating a project to help children from underprivileged neighborhoods finding an internship. Rohit Pandit for creating and leading a project to forecast Oscar winners. |
Rebecca Harmon and Jason Chain for initiating and learning a group comparing the the salaries of employees of the city of Chicago to their supplemental earnings.
Beth Hakamy for assisting with the event co-ordination during the data science night. Chris Skovron and Jon Atwell for co-organizing the initial data science night, and Jon for organizing a project group to analyze the song lyrics of Bob Dylan. Our friends from Northwestern's Postdoctoral Forum and NUIT for sharing our announcements and for sharing their feedback of preceding data science events. NICO - especially Yasmeen Khan for on-day preparation, and Andrew Marfia for creating a professional flyer. |
