The Meet a Data Scientist series is a chance to get up close and personal with top-level data science professionals. Join us for a talk with Kim Grinfeder, head of the University of Miami School of Communication Interactive Media program. Read more “Meet a Data Scientist presents Kim Grinfeder 10/28 4PM”
The Meet a Data Scientist series is a chance to get up close and personal with top-level data science professionals. Join us for a talk with Professor Lindsay Thomas who teaches at the intersections of cultural and media studies, contemporary US literature, and the digital humanities. Read more “Meet a Data Scientist presents Lindsay Thomas 10/20 4PM”
The Meet a Data Scientist series is a chance to get up close and personal with top-level data science professionals. Join us for a talk with Athena Hadjixenofontos, Vice President of Data Science for a major financial institution. The purpose of the Meet a Data Scientist lecture series is to introduce our audience to the people behind the data, their lives, interests, career choices, their work, and passion for how they can use data to solve grand challenges in their respective fields. Join us as we peer behind the curtain and meet the data scientists behind the data! This lecture series is co-sponsored by the Miami Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and is free and open to the public. Read more “Meet a Data Scientist: Athena Hadjixenofontos 9/30 4PM”
On Thursday, May 20 (1:00-2:00 PM), 2021, we welcomed Marjorie McShane, Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Cognitive Science Department, and Co-Director of the Language-Endowed Intelligent Agents (LEIA) Lab for a talk on artificial intelligence and language processing. Read more “Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series presented Marjorie McShane 5/20”
Data Citizens is a series of in-depth talks by experts in the field of data science on a wide variety of topics including data visualization, big data, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics. Join us on Thursday, May 6, 2021, as we welcome Nilam Ram Professor of Psychology and Professor of Communication from Stanford University for a talk on ‘screenomics’. Read more “Data Citizens: A Distinguished Lecture Series presents Nilam Ram 5/6”
Continuing our “Meet a Data Scientist” series, join us on Thursday, April 22, 2021 (3:30-4:30 PM), for a discussion with interdisciplinary developmental psychologist and IDSC Director of Social Systems Informatics Dr. Daniel Messinger offering a glimpse of how he uses data in his research. Read more “Meet a Data Scientist-Daniel Messinger 4/22”
If you have ever wondered what data scientists do, IDSC is giving you an opportunity to learn about this important, multifaceted profession. On Thursday, March 25, 2021, IDSC is hosting the sixth session in the “Meet a Data Scientist” series with Miami Herbert Business School Marketing Professor, Dr. Joseph Johnson. Read more “Meet a Data Scientist Lecture Series: Joseph Johnson 3/25”
Join us for a lively conversation about the intersection of business strategy and artificial intelligence (AI). The SingularityU Miami Chapter wraps its three-part online/Zoom artificial intelligence series with two seasoned experts: Philip Evans, Senior Advisor and Fellow at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and Roy Lowrance, Founder and CEO of Applied Data Science, LLC. Read more ““Best Practices in Applied AI” with Philip Evans and Roy Lowrance 3/18″
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”