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UW-Madison's Carpentries Community hosts numerous workshops year-round to help students, staff, and faculty learn essential computational skills including programming, database management, data visualization, version control, machine learning, and more. The Carpentries is a community of practice centered around teaching foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide. This Instructor Training event is designed to prepare trainees to certify and participate as Carpentries Instructors. However, much of the curriculum focuses on educational principles that apply across a wide variety of contexts.The training is also welcome to participants who do not plan to certify but simply wish to become a better teacher. To request UW Carpentries Instructor Training, fill out the Google Form.

Due March 3 at 5:00 p.m., UW–Madison faculty and staff with permanent PI status are eligible to apply to the American Family Funding Initiative, which offers grants up to $100K to stimulate and support cutting-edge data science research. If you are working on an application and have questions, the Funding Initiative offers helpful resources including office hours with American Family Insurance. Details are available here.

American Family Insurance has partnered with UW–Madison through the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute (DSI) to provide this research funding opportunity. The DSI is a campus-wide institute that aims to bring the power of data science to every discipline. Contact David R. Anderson Director Kyle Cranmer (research@datascience.wisc.edu) to discuss this and other ways DSI can support your data science needs.

March 25, 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., The College of Letters & Science is proud to host a special presentation from Dr. Erwin Gianchandani, Assistant Director of the newly-formed Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (TIP) within the National Science Foundation. Dr. Gianchandani's talk will focus on opportunities within the new directorate which advances use-inspired and translational research in all fields of science.

Working with NSF since 2012, Gianchandani has served in multiple roles including senior advisor for Translation, Innovation and Partnerships prior to his current one. In this role, he helped develop plans for the new TIP Directorate in collaboration with colleagues at NSF, other government agencies, industry and academia.During the previous six years, Gianchandani was the NSF deputy assistant director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, twice serving as acting assistant director for CISE. To register, visit the NSF Presentation Google Form.

February and March, Art has an important role to play in helping the public make sense of complex data in new and exciting ways. Able to see the patterns in the data, artists and data scientists alike translate information into visual and aesthetic forms that increase awareness and make complicated issues easier to understand. The artwork submitted to the 2023 Research Bazaar will be featured in the Discovery Building throughout February and March, available to the public.

February to July, Join the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) for Training in NGS for Infectious Disease Applications virtual training to help increase preparedness for the next pandemic through enhanced molecular surveillance. ASM has developed 50 hours of free, accredited training to educate the clinical microbiology workforce on NGS technologies to increase pathogen genomic sequencing capacity. Training will also help infectious disease bioinformatics partners understand the technology’s clinical applications and impact on public health. To view the complete virtual schedule and to register, visit the ASM Training webpage.

March 7, 1:30 pm., to 3:30 p.m., JMP Pro is comprehensive no-code data visualization and analysis software used across academia and industry. Its capabilities include interactive graphing, basic-to-advanced statistical analysis and modeling, design of experiments, text mining, machine learning, and more, and it’s point-and-click, graph-first interface makes it approachable to a wide range of users. The University of Wisconsin–Madison has a campus-wide license for JMP Pro that grants access to all faculty and students. In this hands-on workshop, a member of the JMP Academic team will lead participants through a series of exercises in data visualization, foundational statistical analyses, and model building. For more information and to register, visit the JMP Pro registration page. Register by March 6 at noon.

March 13 - 17, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., The Data Science Hub is hosting a workshop on Intermediate Research Software Development in Python this spring break. Learn intermediate software engineering techniques and tools including virtual environments, useful IDEs (PyCharm), unit testing, collaborative workflows in GitHub, and more! This workshop aims to teach a core set of established, intermediate-level software development skills and best practices for working as part of a team in a research environment using Python as an example programming language. The core set of skills that will be taught are not a comprehensive set of all-encompassing skills, but a selective set of tried-and-tested collaborative development skills that forms a firm foundation for continuing on participants' learning journey. Basic knowledge of Python programming, Unix Shell, and Git is required to attend. For more information and to register, visit the workshop website.

Have questions about anything data science-related? Come see the Data Science Hub facilitators at Coding Meetup on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:30-4:30 p.m. CT. To join Coding Meetup, join data-science-hubgroup.slack.com.

March 1 and 9, 9:00 a.m., Join QIAGEN for an exciting 2-part webinar in which experts and research scientists will share tips, tricks and latest info about difficult sample types and different approaches, including NGS and dPCR. Hear about precision microbiome engineering in agricultural settings from Jennifer Ronholm, McGill University, Canada. Learn more about monitoring antibiotic resistance in human populations for evidence-based prevention and effective response to control outbreaks from Camille Favier, University of Montpellier, France. For more information and to register, visit the Antimicrobial Research event page.

March to May, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 pm., ML+X is a monthly forum where machine learning practitioners (i.e., anyone who uses regression, clustering, deep learning, decision trees, natural language processing, etc.) gather to discuss some of the common challenges faced when applying machine learning to real-world problems and datasets. ML+X is currently seeking anyone who is applying machine learning in their work to present to receive feedback on their projects at their forum. Projects do not need to be 100% completed and project proposals are also welcome. For more information and to sign up, visit the ML+X Presenter Google Form.

Wednesdays, 12:30 p.m., [Exception: Feb 22 the time will be 4:00-5:00 p.m., due to the Research Bazaar] SILO is about breaking down the systems, information, leaning, and optimization of research created by academic department boundaries. Recent advances in information science are allowing scientists and researchers to sense, process and share data in ways and scales previously impossible. These developments have the potential to benefit work happening in a wide range of disciplines. SILO’s purpose is to help realize such potential by providing the time and space for researchers to present and interact to find common threads. Visit the SILO webpage for information about their upcoming talks.

February 22, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Codecinella is a coalition of local feminist software developers, students and professionals, looking to strengthen our community, and to encourage more women and non-binary folks to become involved in the technology field. All attendees agree to adhere to the Madison Women in Tech code of conduct. This presentation will cover practices the speaker (Heidi Wagner) did at Fetch when the company had limited runway and a completely different set of engineers. Startups are not fortunate to have the budgets that other companies may have, so how can you best capitalize on the resources that you do have and ensure your company can scale? For more information and to register, visit the meetup event page.

March 9, 2023, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., MadPy is a community group of python enthusiasts. They are open to all experience levels and committed to a safe, professional environment. This interactive session will start with a short review of good coding principles, then dig into some bad code and clean it up. The primary goal is readability. This interactive session is aimed at novice to intermediate level developers. Attendees will be asked what needs cleaning, and how you would improve it. Later, experts may suggest solutions. For more information and to register, visit the meetup event page.

Do you have some bad code to contribute? MadPy is looking for a few more relatively independent functions or methods, no more than 30 lines each. Send samples to MadPy on Slack.

UW-Madison's Carpentries Community hosts numerous workshops year-round to help students, staff, and faculty learn essential computational skills including programming, database management, data visualization, version control, machine learning, and more. 

The Carpentries is seeking new members to bring additional diversity and expertise into its instructional community. Among other benefits, members have opportunities to advance their technical and teaching skills by attending computational workshops and participating in an optional instructor training program. Join the google group if interested in learning more!

Due March 1, The J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of seeks to recruit 2 tenure-track research data librarians with broad knowledge and experience in data-intensive research, including managing or analyzing data in at least one field of academic research, such as engineering, social science or humanities. The data librarians will develop and maintain workflows in support of data lifecycle, will engage researchers to develop an understanding of their needs for the reproducibility of their work, and provide technically-focused advice to improve data management practices and enable Open Science and FAIR data. For more information and to apply, visit the Research Data Librarian position description.

Due March 9, The Wisconsin School of Business is offering the Morgridge Entrepreneurial Bootcamp (MEB) from June 5-9, 2023. The MEB is a one-week intensive training program in technology entrepreneurship for graduate students in the sciences, engineering, and math. MEB is co-sponsored by the Initiative for Studies in Transformational Entrepreneurship (INSITE) and the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship. MEB students will work with case analyses, lectures, expert panels, and exercises in market assessments, and participate in lively social events. Students will also learn to imagine, create, and assess opportunities using multiple lenses; develop resources for an organization by forming teams and seeking funding; and use accounting and finance as language and assessment tools. For more information and to apply, visit the MEB webpage.

Due March 10, The NYU Health Sciences Library (NYUHSL) welcomes applicants for the position of Research Impact Librarian, a faculty appointment in the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and would be part of the Research Data and Metrics team. The Research Impact Librarian will be responsible for providing and promoting existing bibliometric services and resources, as well as developing new ones. The successful candidate will be responsible for working with the library’s Systems and Technology team to ensure and improve the accuracy of the database. Our ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of methodological and ethical best practices for measuring and disseminating research impact. For more information and to apply, visit the Research Impact Librarian position description.

The Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA) is a network of academic data science practitioners, educators, and leaders, and academic-adjacent colleagues, who thoughtfully integrate data science best practices in higher education. UW-Madison is a founding member of ADSA.