The University of Miami School of Architecture and Institute for Data Science and Computing present the 4th annual Smart Cities Miami Conference on Thursday, April 15, 1:00-4:00 PM. The annual Smart Cities Miami Conference provides a forum for leaders in academia, industry, and government to closely examine evolving theories and practices in the Smart City field. Read more “Smart Cities MIAMI Conference Goes Virtual 4/15”
This 2-day intensive virtual workshop is designed to provide a foundation of basic concepts that all programming depends on, using the general-purpose programming language, Python, as an example. There are no prerequisites and the workshop is designed for computer users from beginners to advanced. Read more “2-Day Scientific Computing with Python Workshop 3/25-26”
From human subjects protection to the responsible conduct of research, bioscientists around the world seek, study, and try to adhere to Ethics standards originating at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Read more ““Research Ethics and the NIH” Christine Grady Lecture 3/19″
This 2-day intensive workshop is designed to provide foundational concepts that all programming depends on, using the R statistical computing platform as an example. There are no prerequisites and the workshop is designed for computer users from beginners to advanced.
Read more “2-Day Scientific Computing with R Workshop 3/4-5”
On January 27, 2021, from 4:00 to 5:00 PM, Dr. Yelena Yesha shared her definition of data science and addressed the current state of affairs in the field of data science. She spoke about exciting innovative projects at CARTA and IDSC that involve the data analytics, data science, and blockchain technology. And about her personal journey—how she got to be where she is and how she picked up the field of data science before it gained the prominence. Read more “Catch the Replay: Meet a Data Scientist with Yelena Yesha”
Dr. Ken Goodman opened the fourth session in the Meet A Data Scientist lecture series on January 13, 2021 from 4:00-5:00 PM with a talk on how data science works to reduce ignorance, uncertainty, and the harboring of false beliefs, and to correct previous mistakes. Read more “Catch the Replay: Meet A Data Scientist with Dr. Ken Goodman”
The third Meet a Data Scientist talk took place on December 9, 2020 (original event entry). Opening with a parallel to the writings of Enlightenment-era thinker John Locke on the changes in property and governance and shift to capitalism at that time as it relates to data science in making today’s world a better place, Read more “Catch the Replay: Meet a Data Scientist with Tim Norris”
If you missed the inaugural speaker of the new Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series, you can watch it online now. Internationally renowned Israeli researcher Mira Marcus-Kalish, PhD, Director, International Research Affairs, for Tel Aviv University spoke on “Medical Informatics—Promise and Barriers towards Precise Medicine.” Read more “Catch the Replay of Mira Marcus-Kalish’s Data Citizens Lecture on Medical Informatics”
The second Meet a Data Scientist talk, given on November 18, 2020, featured Dr. Ben Kirtman, a Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. Dr. Kirtman uses atmosphere-ocean general circulation models to study the predictability and variability of the Earth’s climate system. Read more “Catch the Replay: Meet a Data Scientist with Ben Kirtman”
Big data, data analytics, advanced computing, and algorithms are rapidly and profoundly changing every sphere of human activity. Advanced computing gives us the ability to reliably and cost effectively store petabytes of data; and machine learning algorithms can crunch through massive datasets in real time to extract business intelligence and socially relevant information, giving firms new marketing tools, like mobile geo-social targeting.
Read more “Big Data, Business, and the Pandemic 12/3/2020”