Join the Research Bazaar Planning Committee
Planning for the 2024 Research Bazaar is starting! We'd love your help!
The Research Bazaar is an annual conference building community around computing across campus and Madison. The planning committee should reflect the different areas of campus, Madison, and applications of computing. Would you be interested in bringing your perspective to our committee?
The planning committee will meet fortnightly or weekly, based where the committee is in the planning process. If you cannot join for the meetings but would still like to get emails about the planning progress, please indicate that in the form. Any questions about the Research Bazaar or planning committee can be addressed to mariah.knowles@wisc.edu.
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Registration for Mini-Workshop Series
Registration is open for the Data Science Hub's Fall 2023 Mini-Workshop Series. The Mini-Workshop Series are one-to-two day workshops throughout the Fall covering a range of topics listed below. Register for any and all that you are interested in. Tickets close the Friday before each mini-workshop. To learn more and register, visit the event page.
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| September 13 |
Unix Shell |
| September 27-28 |
Intro to Machine Learning |
| October 11 |
Git/GitHub |
| October 25-26 |
Intro to Docker |
| November 8 |
CHTC |
| December 6 |
Interactive Data Visualizations in Python and Streamlit |
| December 20 |
The Basics of Data Visualization |
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DSI Is Hiring
UW-Madison's Data Science Institute is seeking a Project Program Manager to lead the establishment and day-to-day management of an Open Source Program Office (OSPO), a new unit on the UW-Madison campus. Hosted within UW-Madison's Data Science Institute (DSI) and collaborating with Madison College, the Data Science Hub, and the UW-Madison Libraries, the OSPO will grow a culture of open research and provide support for open practices both on the UW-Madison campus and within the Madison area. Read more and apply on the job posting webpage.
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Seeking Presenters for Fall ML+X Forum
Want to get feedback on your machine learning (ML) project or proposal and connect with others using the same models/methods as you? Sign up to present at the monthly ML+X forum this fall!
The ML+X forum features short talks and group discussions on diverse applications of machine learning (ML). Each event highlights two ML applications that share a theme (e.g., clustering, transformer models, computer vision, bias & fairness, etc.) followed by communal discussions and project feedback. Presentations at ML+X place an emphasis on:
- Practical challenges and limitations of ML
- Methods (model selection & validation, performance metrics, etc.)
- Useful software tools (e.g., “MLOps”)
- Ethical concerns of ML applications
- Communal learning & discussions
Meet a future collaborator! Presenters at ML+X have the opportunity to meet with one another (two presenters at each event) prior to giving their talks. Since the presenters share a methods theme, these meetings act as an opportunity to meet a potential future collaborator, share insights from previous work, and discuss plans for future work.
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SSCC Workshops
The Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) is hosting a variety of workshops at the end of August. Topics, dates & times, locations, and event links are below. Introductory workshops are designed to be taken before and in conjunction with the Data Wrangling workshops. Learn more about the SSCC at their website.
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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.
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SILO: FIFA World Cup: Can Robots Play Too?
August 10, 4:00 p.m., Hear from Josiah Hanna at Memorial Union. Soccer is one of the most popular sports worldwide and elite level soccer play requires athletic prowess, flexible decision-making under uncertainty, coordinated team action, and countering the behavior of opposing players. Will robots ever be able to play soccer as well as the FIFA world cup champions? In this talk Josiah Hanna will describe how their lab has begun using reinforcement learning (RL) to enable robots to learn to play soccer and how they used RL to successfully compete at the RoboCup Soccer Standard Platform League earlier this summer.
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Exploring Artificial Intelligence @ UW–Madison
August 11, 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m., Alan McMillan, UW–Madison professor of clinical health sciences in the Department of Radiology, will speak on AI and Medical Imaging at this Friday’s Exploring AI @ UW-Madison webinar. On August 18, Nick Switanek, principal technical architect for AI at Microsoft Technology Centers, will discuss generative AI at Microsoft. The Zoom link for this webinar series is available at the event page.
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US-RSE'23
October 16-18, Registration for the First Annual Conference of the US Research Software Engineer Association is open. This conference will be taking place at University of Illinois in Chicago campus and the theme of this year’s conference will be "Software Enabled Discovery and Beyond." Programming includes talks, tutorials, and workshops. Learn more and register at the event website.
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Summer SILO Series
Thursdays, Join the Systems Information Learning Optimization (SILO) group every Thursday at the Memorial Union at 3:00 p.m. for guest speakers. Previous topics include Partial Optimality in Cubic Correlation Clustering and Challenges and Progress towards Socially Responsible NLP. Both virtual and in-person options available. For more information visit the SILO website and mailing list.
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Madison's Geek Lunch
August 15, 11:45 a.m., Geek Lunch is an engaging conversation with your geekiest friends. this week at The Thirsty Goat, where the topic bounces around depending on whatever anyone wants to contribute. All are welcome regardless of where you lie on any imaginary geek scale. Think "The Algonquin Round Table" with an emphasis on tech. Learn more at its meetup page.
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Madison Area Software Developers Group Meetup
August 16, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., At the Madison Area Software Developers Meetup at The Great Dane on E Doty St, come and share your experiences as a software developer in the Madison area! They strive to keep developers informed about the constantly changing technologies necessary to succeed and innovate. They are committed to lifelong learning, bridging the education gap between college and industry, and networking within the Madison area. Learn more at its meetup page.
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Forward Fest
August 21-25, The Forward Festival is Wisconsin's largest technology and entrepreneurship festival, attracting more than 5,000 attendees and serving as host for more than 40 events over 5 days every August. Now in its 14th year, it's the state's flagship celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship for business folks, nerds, social impact innovators, foodies, hackers, entrepreneurs, creatives, problem-solvers, community supporters and more from across the Midwest. Learn more about the festival and its events at the festival website.
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DevFest WI
August 24, 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., DevFest WI is an inclusivity-themed conference for any and all folks in tech. Now in their fifth year, they are returning again to the beautiful UW Memorial Union for a day filled with a wide variety of talks on topics related to building inclusive and accessible products, teams, and environments. Learn more at the event page.
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ML+X Fall Kickoff
September 5, 5:30 p.m. - 6 p.m., UW-Madison’s ML+X community brings together students, researchers, and industry professionals who share an interest in using machine learning (ML) methods to advance their work (X). Learn more about the community’s upcoming events (forums, hackathons, socials, and more) and how you can get involved at the fall kickoff meeting! Light refreshments will be served.
Member survey: In preparation for the kickoff meeting, ML+X asks that all members (and those interested in joining) please take 5-10 minutes to fill out the biannual member survey so that they can better understand the backgrounds and needs of ML practitioners on campus, and better plan their future events. ML+X will present the survey results at the kickoff meeting.
Google Group: Click here to join the community’s Google group and be notified of upcoming events. If you have any trouble joining, please send an email to facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu, and they will add you to the group manually.
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Wisconsin Science Festival
October 16-22, The Wisconsin Science Festival is a statewide celebration with activities for people throughout Wisconsin. Events include hands-on science exhibitions, demonstrations, performances, tours, pub nights, workshops and more. Learn more about the festival and its events at the festival website.
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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!
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Job Fair for Women and Nonbinary Folks in Tech
August 24, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m., Madison Women in Tech is hosting their second annual job fair as part of DevFest WI and Forward Fest at Memorial Union. This is a great opportunity for women and nonbinary folks to explore opportunities with a wide variety of both Madison-based an national employers, from startups to corporations. Fifteen different companies will be represented at this event, so bring your resumes and questions, and explore a wide variety of opportunities right here in Madison. Learn more at the event page.
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PROFESSIONAL
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Data Engineer
Due August 20, The UW-Madison School of Public Health, Office of Informatics and Information Technology is looking for a Data Engineer to contribute to building the UW Real World Data Commons (UW-RWDC) mapping data across platforms and common data models including OMOP, i2b2, TriNetX, and mCODE. Additional responsibilities include data quality assurance and quality control and developing queries that translate research objectives into datasets retrieved from the UW-RWDC. Learn more at the job posting.
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DATA VISUALIZATION OF THE WEEK
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A visualization of alcohol-related deaths before and throughout the pandemic by Caitlin Gilbert, David Ovalle and Hanna Zakharenko with the Washington Post.
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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.
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