Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing

VizUM 2017
2017-11-16 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Newman Alumni Center, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Creative Visualization
Thursday, November 16, 2017 | 4:00-7:00 PM
UM Newman Alumni Center, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146

FREE REGISTRATION

GIORGIA LUPI

Accurat.it | GiorgiaLupi.com

Giorga Lupi is an award-winning information designer. She co-founded Accurat, a data-driven design firm with offices in Milan and New York, where she is the design director. She received her M-Arch at FAF in Ferrara, Italy, and earned a PhD in Design at Politecnico di Lilano. She relocated to New York City from Italy, where she now lives. She is co-author of Dear Data, an aspirational, hand-drawn, data-visualization book published by Princeton Architectural Press in the US, and by Penguin Random House in the UK. The original set of postcards has been recently acquired as part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. She recently gave a TED TALK on her Humanistic approach to Data.
Data Humanism How can data visualization design can make a difference and make data more meaningful for people’s lives?  How can we make a real difference now that the ways we relate to information are evolving more rapidly than we realize?  Now that we are past what we can call “peak infographics” and we are left with a general audience that understands much more of what we’re doing in our profession: an audience that is ready to welcome a second wave of more meaningful and thoughtful visualizations. Giorgia will discuss how to see this moment as an opportunity to jumpstart a new renaissance, where we can question the impersonality of a merely technical approach to data, where we are ready to reconnect numbers to what they really stand for: which are more and more our lives.

ANGUS FORBES
Computational Media Deparment | University of California, Santa Cruz

Angus Forbes is an Assistant Professor in the Computational Media Department at University of California, Santa Cruz, where he directs UCSC Creative Coding. His research investigates novel techniques for visualizing and interacting with complex scientific information; his interactive artwork has been featured at museums, galleries, and festivals throughout the world. For the last five years (2013-2017), Angus has chaired the IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP), a forum that promotes dialogue about the relation of aesthetics and design to visualization research, and he is serving as the Arts Papers chair for ACM SIGGRAPH for 2018. Information about Angus’s recent projects is available at https://creativecoding.soe.ucsc.edu.
Creative and Critical Data Visualization In this talk, Angus will present a range of recent projects that introduce current trends in the field of information visualization, including interactive representations of biological pathways and protein interaction networks, dynamic network visualizations of the human brain connectome, and a public art installation that explores connections between photographic images and literary themes in the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. In addition to describing details about these individual projects, Angus will explore the potentials of integrating artistic and scientific methodologies, and he will discuss the use of computational media approaches to augment visual analyses of complex data, and to enhance user engagement in immersive environments.

Click here for the official VizUM 2017 Poster

"Connections, Connections: Student Research in Social Systems at UM"
2018-09-21 16:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | Abess Center, 1365 Memorial Drive, Suite 230C-D, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146
It is a pleasure to invite you to “Connections, Connections: Student Research in Social Systems @ UM” a Flash Talks and Networking Symposium organized by the IDSC Social Systems Informatics Members. Social informatics includes modeling big behavioral data to understand human and non-human social interaction. Students working in psychology, education, geography, public health, or architecture; students studying sociality in model organisms; or students working on method development through computer science, mathematics, physics and engineering, may fall under the Social Systems Informatics umbrella.
This event offers an opportunity for post-doc, graduate (and advanced undergraduate) students across campuses to connect, share their research, and network with each other and with invited faculty.
Friday, September 21, 2018 | 4:00-6:00 PM
Ungar Building, Room 230C-D | RSVP Now

Agenda

Ice breaker
Five-minute student flash talks (6x)
Networking

Guide for Presenters
We are calling all students who would like to present a flash talk. Presentations are maximum 5 minutes, followed by up to 5 minutes of questions. You may prepare a slide deck with a maximum of 5 slides. If interested in attending or presenting, please register.
Important dates for presenters:

9/14 Deadline to Register to be a Presenter
9/19 Presentation Slides Submission Deadline
9/21 Date of Presentation

For any questions regarding the event, please contact us at ccsengagement@miami.edu

We look forward to seeing you at Connections, Connections: Student Research in Social Systems @ UM. This event is free and open to UM Faculty, Staff, and Students.

Location
The Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy
Arthur A. Ungar Building, Room 230C-D
1365 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146

VizUM 2018
2018-11-15 16:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Newman Alumni Center, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
VizUM 2018 has been scheduled for Thursday, November 15, 2018, 4:00-7:00 PM. The finalists’ projects from the inaugural VizUM Visualization Competition will be presented.
REGISTER NOW Free | Event Announcement
If you plan to attend and need FREE PARKING, please register your vehicle.
Those with UM parking permits do not need to register (your vehicle is already in the system and you may park in the grey zones).
Speakers

Bongshin Lee | Microsoft
Bongshin Lee is a Senior Researcher in the Human-Computer Interaction and EPIC research groups at Microsoft Research. She explores innovative ways to enable people to create visualizations, interact with their data, and share data-driven stories. Recently, she has been recently on helping people collect and explore data about themselves, and, share insights with others by leveraging visualizations. Bongshin currently serve as a Papers Co-Chair for PacificVis 2018 and as Associate Editor for IEEE TVCG. She served as a General Co-Chair for IEEE PacificVis 2017, and Papers Co-Chair for IEEE InfoVis 2015 and 2016. She earned her MS and PhD in Computer Science from University of Maryland at College Park in 2002 and 2006, respectively.
For more information, please visit bongshiny.com.

Hadley Wickham | RStudio
Hadley Wickham is a Chief Scientist at RStudio, and an Adjunct Professor of Statistics at the University of Auckland, Stanford University, and Rice University. Hadley builds tools (computational and cognitive) that make data science easier, faster, and more fun. He’s from New Zealand but he currently lives in Houston, TX with his partner and two dogs.
Most of Hadley’s work is in the form of open source R code, which you can find on github.com/hadley. You can roughly divide his work into three categories: tools for data science, tools for data import, and software engineering tools.
hadley.nz

Flyer | Poster

Big Data 2018
2018-12-06 14:00 - 18:30 UTC | Newman Alumni Center, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
In collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences and the Miami Business School we invite you to participate in panel discussions on Big Data, and to network with south Florida private- and public-sector policy makers, entrepreneurs, educators, and researchers, and healthcare providers. This year’s event focuses on capacity building and cybersecurity and will be hosted in the Miami Business School Storer Auditorium located at 5250 University Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146, on Thursday, December 6, from 2:00-7:00 PM. A detailed conference agenda is below, along with instructions and a campus map for complimentary event parking.

Big data, advanced computing, and algorithms are rapidly and profoundly changing every sphere of human activity; Airbnb, Uber, and Fitbit are just a few examples. Today, over 3.6 billion people worldwide are deeply engaged with smartphone devices, wearables, and Internet-of-things technologies while artificial intelligence also promises to create a wave of new products. 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. These tools have also empowered customers, making them more savvy in their interactions with business. The businesses, nonprofits, health care providers, government agencies, entrepreneurs, and educational institutions that harness these trends have an historic opportunity to gain an advantage over their competitors.

PANEL 1 Capability Building for Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

MODERATOR | Pete Martinez, CEO | Game Changer Tec, LLC and SIVOTEC Analytics
Pete Martinez serves as Chairman and CEO of Game Changer Tec, LLC and SIVOTEC Analytics; high innovation enterprises at the intersection of Sports, Health, Technology, and Big Data Analytics. An international entrepreneur, he has led numerous high impact initiatives in the areas of high technology, business consulting, healthcare, and education. Previously, during his 32 year tenure with IBM, Martinez, Vice President of Global Business Services and the Senior Location Executive for IBM South Florida, led a 1,700-person organization composed of consultants, hardware and software developers, industry specialists and sales leaders. He led projects in the areas of advanced research, supercomputing, and information based medicine. In 2003, Martinez led the formation of IBM’s largest Business Transformation Multi-client Center that has opened a multi-billion dollar outsourcing business.

Marvin Mayorga, Partner | Data Meaning
For more than 19 years, Marvin Mayorga has served in multiple roles performing various business and IT leadership functions supporting Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR and Operations. In his current role, Mr. Mayorga is responsible for implementing disruptive business intelligence solutions and making bold moves to drive profound business transformations. In partnership with the world’s leading companies, having gained experience spanning across 15 industries, Mr. Mayorga is proud to have struck a balance between industry knowledge and business intelligence expertise to help institutionalize more effective analytically powered business transformations for his customers. Thus, the intersection of industry knowledge and business intelligence is not just what he does but is a fundamental part of who he is and what he has to offer.

Arthur Kordon, CEO | Kordon Consulting
Dr. Arthur Kordon is an internationally recognized expert and consultant in applying advanced analytics and computational intelligence in industry. In his previous position as Advanced Analytics Leader at Dow Chemical, Dr. Kordon successfully applied advanced analytics solutions in forecasting, business cycles analysis, price elasticity analysis, and fraud detection in auditing. He also successfully introduced several novel technologies for improved manufacturing, and new product design, based on computational intelligence (such as: robust inferential sensors, process optimization based on empirical emulators, automated operating discipline, and accelerated fundamental model building). He was granted a US patent and has published more than 70 papers and 13 book chapters in the area of applied computational intelligence and advanced analytics. Recently, he published Applying Computational Intelligence and is co-author of the book Applied Data Mining for Forecasting. He spoke on analytics and forecasting at Chevron and several SAS conferences, and was the keynote speaker at the Business Forecasting Summit.

Mitsunori Ogihara, PhD, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Program Director, CCS Big Data Analytics and Data Mining | University of Miami
Dr. Mitsunori Ogihara joined the University of Miami in 2007 as Professor in the Department of Computer Science and as Program Director of the Big Data Analytics & Data Mining Program within the Center for Computational Science. More recently, he served as Associate Dean for Digital Library Innovation in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Ogihara obtained his PhD in Information Sciences from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1993. From 1994 to 2007, Dr. Ogihara was a Computer Science faculty member at the University of Rochester, where he was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1998, and to full Professor in 2002. He also served as Chair of for the Department from 1999 to 2007.
His research interests are in data mining, information retrieval, network traffic data analysis, program behavior analysis, molecular computation, and music information retrieval. Dr. Ogihara is the author of The Complexity Theory Companion, Music Data Mining, and, his most recent publication, Fundamentals of Java Programming.

Sanjeev Taran, Senior Manager, Lead Architect, Big Data and Analytics Implementations | Deloitte
Sanjeev Taran is a Senior Manager at Deloitte and lead architect for Big Data and Analytics implementations serving several Fortune 100 clients. He has more than 25 years of data management experience including database applications, middleware technologies, distributed computing and cloud-based architectures. Currently, Mr. Taran is implementing a big data analytics platform for a public utility company in Midwest to enable storm predictions and outage management.

PANEL 2 Data Governance, Privacy, and Cyber Security in the Era of Big Data

MODERATOR | Allison Eng-Perez, Managing Principal, Higher Education | Deloitte
Allison Eng-Perez currently serves as the Higher Education sector leader for Deloitte’s Risk and Financial Advisory practice that provides services in the areas of cyber risk, finance transformation, strategic risk, data analytics, and internal/external audits. She has more than twenty years of experience managing complex projects and large scale implementations with a special focus on addressing program risks, cyber risks, strategic risks, and financial risks.
In her national role, Ms. Eng-Perez coordinates and manages all firm efforts to help universities, colleges, and academic medical organizations manage financial, operational, technological, and regulatory risk in order to maximize institutional value, better serve students and patients and serve as leaders in our communities. She also serves as board member for the Center for Higher Education Excellence.

Filippo Marino | Tegumen
Filippo Marino has developed, led or optimized corporate intelligence programs, executive protection efforts, and enterprise risk mitigation operations as both an adviser and functional leader for some of the world’s largest and most complex organizations. He is the founder and CEO of Safe-Esteem, a Miami-based technology startup merging big data with artificial and human intelligence to transform the measurement and understanding of personal risk and safety. Mr. Marino is also the founder and managing partner of Tegumen, LLC, where he leads Protective Security and Enterprise Risk Intelligence consulting efforts for Fortune 500 clients. In his most recent corporate role, he developed and managed McDonald’s Global Risk Intelligence & Executive Protection operations. He also led the brand’s initiatives and best practices in the areas of Workplace Violence Prevention, Crisis Management, and major events security, including Olympic Games and FIFA World Cup. His career started as an officer of the Italian Army, and has developed several guidelines and best practices for both protective security practitioners and corporate intelligence analysts. Mr. Marino holds a degree in Behavioral Science.

Martin Levy | Executive Diversified Industrials
Martin L. Levy is the acting Chief Marketing Officer of e-forensics inc. A Miami based firm providing state-of-the art solutions in cyber security, digital forensics, and e-discovery. Mr. Levy has been leading the firm’s revenue diversification and geographical expansion in the Americas and global markets.

Louis Gidel, PhD, MD, Chief Medical Informatics and Chief Quality Officer | Baptist Health South Florida
Dr. Gidel aligns clinical informatics and data with quality metrics, helping to establish evidence-based best practices across the system. He is responsible for performance improvement, analytics, telehealth, medical informatics and focuses on the clinical decision-making to have data-driven support. Dr. Gidel serves as Baptist Health’s Chief Medical Informatics Officer and helped spearhead the organization’s implementation of Cerner Millennium, a new integrated electronic medical record system. He also serves as Medical Director of Baptist Health’s Telehealth Center, including Telemedicine, the eICU, the Transfer Center and as Co-Chair of the System-wide Adult Critical Care Committee.

A. Michael Froomkin, Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law | University of Miami
A. Michael Froomkin is the Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Recent work on technology law includes articles on AI and medicine, on drones, and many articles about law and the Internet, and on technology and privacy.
He is the founder and editor of the online law review Jotwell, The Journal of Things We Like (Lots). He is a founder (2012) and sometime Chair of the We Robot conference, which returns to Coral Gables in 2019. He serves on the Editorial Board of I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society. He is on the Advisory Boards of several organizations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Prof. Froomkin is a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, and a non-resident Fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society Project. He is also active in technology-related projects in the greater Miami area.
Professor Froomkin’s publications are listed at http://law.tm/#pubs.
Before entering teaching, Prof. Froomkin practiced international arbitration law in the London office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. He clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, and Chief Judge John F. Grady of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. Prof. Froomkin received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as Articles Editor of both the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of International Law. He has an M.Phil in History of International Relations from Cambridge University in England, which he obtained while on a Mellon Fellowship. His B.A. from Yale was in Economics and History, summa cum laude, phi beta kappa with Distinction in History.

Raimundo Rodulfo, Director, Information Technology | City of Coral Gables
Raimundo Rodulfo is an IEEE Senior Member with twenty-five years of working experience delivering value, sustainability and innovation to customers and organizations. He is the Director of Information Technology of City of Coral Gables, Florida, responsible for strategic planning, management and continuous improvement of city-wide IT operations, infrastructure and smart city initiatives. Prior to joining the City in 2004, he worked for ten years in the private sector, including seven years in Bellsouth as a development engineer and three years engineering electronic equipment and systems for Siemens, NCR and other organizations. He also worked on joint projects in Illinois, California, Florida and LATAM with Motorola, Lucent, Agilent, Cisco and IBM.
Mr. Rodulfo’s team at the City of Coral Gables IT Department works together with the city’s leadership and departments as a key strategic partner bringing value, efficiencies, innovation and process improvements across organization through technology solutions, smart city initiatives and projects.
Mr. Rodulfo is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.), certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB), and ITIL/PCI/HIPAA/Virtualization/SAP certified professional. He holds a Master’s Degree in Engineering Management from Florida International University (FIU), a Graduate Certificate in Enterprise Systems from FIU, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from National Polytechnic University.

Agenda
1:00 Registration Opens
2:00 Welcome Address
2:30 PANEL 1 Capability Building for Big Data and AI Applications for Public and Private Sector Enterprises
Join our panelists in a deep dive into the value and challenges associated with launching and building organizational capabilities to develop traditional and Big Data analytics . With data potentially transforming every department and function in an enterprise, it is helpful – and challenging – to cultivate across all roles and levels.3:30 Coffee Break
4:00 PANEL 2 Data Governance, Privacy and Cybersecurity in the Era of Big Data
Examples of how Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data and data breaches in well-known firms bring to the fore the power and risk of having user data reside in firms. Join our panelists as they explore the balance between the democratization of data and data privacy, the data owners’ responsibilities towards various stakeholder groups, and practical considerations that come into play when setting and implementing data governance policies.
5:30 Networking Reception

Location
Miami Business School Storer Auditorium, 5250 University Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146 | Directions + Special Event Parking information TBA

Parking Instructions (Free)

Anyone with a UM parking permit does not need re-register their vehicle
Non-UM Speakers and Moderators will be given specific parking instructions
All other non-UM attendees please use this parking link to register your vehicle
The parking registration link will be open on Wednesday 12/5 at 8:00 AM through Thursday 12/6 at 3:00 PM
Your Big Data event parking session is valid from 12/6 at 1:00 PM until 8:00 PM
Approved parking locations Red Zone Lot 209 A-B-C based on availability.

The U Experience-Mapic Leap
2019-08-19 00:00 - 2019-12-11 23:59 UTC | Richter Library, 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146, United States
The U Experience is a immersive augmented reality application that offers the exploration of the University of Miami Coral Gables campus through a lightweight Magic Leap wearable device. The U Experience is the result of a collaboration by a multi-disciplinary development team comprised of faculty, staff, and students from the University of Miami.
The U Experience is available to faculty and students through the fall semester (until December 11) in the Magic Leap Lab located in the Richter Library, room 326.
To reserve a tour, click here.

Solutions Center Office Hours-RSMAS Campus
2019-10-02 09:00 - 23:00, 2019-10-09 09:00 - 11:00, 2019-10-16 09:00 - 11:00, 2019-10-23 09:00 - 11:00, 2019-10-30 09:00 - 11:00, 2019-11-06 09:00 - 11:00, 2019-11-13 09:00 - 11:00, 2019-11-20 09:00 - 11:00 UTC | Rosensteil School of Marine Atmospheric and Earth Science, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Virginia Key, Florida, 33149, United States
Could you use some help with technical troubleshooting? Are you having trouble installing software? Do you need answers to questions for a grant proposal? The CCS Advanced Computing (AC) Team’s OFFICE HOURS can help! AC holds office hours on all 3 campuses to assist you:
Gables Campus » Fridays 9AM-12PM (Ungar 330E) • Pedro Davila, Systems Administrator
RSMAS Campus » Wednesdays 9-11AM (MSC 223) • Warner Baringer, Senior Analyst/Systems Engineer
Medical Campus » Wednesdays 10AM-2PM (Soffer CRC 710) • Joel Zysman, Director
CCS AC can help with all kinds of technical troubles from how to use the new Triton supercomputer or Pegasus cluster, to queueing instructions, to resolving an error message. Consult with Warner at the RSMAS Campus on Wednesdays from 9:00-11:00 AM in the Doherty Marine Science Center, Room MSC 223.

Solutions Center Office Hours-Medical Campus
2019-10-02 10:00 - 14:00, 2019-10-09 10:00 - 14:00, 2019-10-16 10:00 - 14:00, 2019-10-23 10:00 - 14:00, 2019-10-30 10:00 - 14:00, 2019-11-06 10:00 - 14:00, 2019-11-13 10:00 - 14:00, 2019-11-20 10:00 - 14:00 UTC | Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 NW 14th St, Miami, FL, 33136, United States
Could you use some help with technical troubleshooting? Are you having trouble installing software? Do you need answers to questions for a grant proposal? The CCS Advanced Computing (AC) Team’s OFFICE HOURS can help! AC holds office hours on all 3 campuses to assist you:
Gables Campus » Fridays 9AM-12PM (Ungar 330E) • Pedro Davila, Systems Administrator
RSMAS Campus » Wednesdays 9-11AM (MSC 223) • Warner Baringer, Senior Analyst/Systems Engineer
Medical Campus » Wednesdays 10AM-2PM (Soffer CRC 710) • Joel Zysman, Director
CCS AC can help with all kinds of technical troubles from how to use the new Triton supercomputer or Pegasus cluster, to queueing instructions, to resolving an error message. Consult with Joel at the Medical Campus on Wednesdays from 10:00 AM-2:00 PM in the Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 NW 14th St, Room CRC 710, Miami, FL 33136.

Introduction to TRITON Workshop-Gables Campus
2019-10-10 12:00 - 16:00 UTC | Richter Library, 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146, United States
The University of Miami has unleashed Triton to the research community. Using the same AI-optimized architecture as the world’s most powerful supercomputer, Triton is UM’s first GPU-accelerated HPC system, representing a new approach to computational and data science. Built using IBM Power Systems AC922 servers, Triton was designed to maximize data movement between the IBM POWER9 CPU and attached accelerators, enabling students, researchers, and analysts to explore new possibilities.
The CCS Advanced Computing team is offering training sessions on TRITON at all three campuses. The training session will include information on how to create a new Triton account, utilize the pre-installed software, and best practices for using the new features on Triton for areas such as Deep Learning and Data Science.
This is a hands-on session, so please bring a laptop.
Register Now

Gables Campus session – Thursday, October 10, 2019, 12:00 to 4:00 PM, in the Richter Library, 3rd floor Conference Room
RSMAS Campus Session – Thursday, November 7, 2019, 12:00 to 4:00 PM, in SLAB 103
Medical Campus Session – Friday, December 13, 2019, 12:00 to 4:00 PM Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, Suite 710

PHOTOS by T.J. Lievonen

TRITON in the News . . .

South Florida Business Journal “University of Miami installs $3.7M Supercomputer“
Inside HPC “IBM Deploys TRITON AI Supercomputer at University of Miami“
HPC Wire “University of Miami Deploys $3.7M IBM Power System for AI, HPC“

Solutions Center Office Hours-Gables Campus
2019-10-26 09:00 - 12:00, 2019-11-01 09:00 - 12:00, 2019-11-08 09:00 - 12:00, 2019-11-15 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Arthur A. Ungar Building, 1365 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Could you use some help with technical troubleshooting? Are you having trouble installing software? Do you need answers to questions for a grant proposal? The CCS Advanced Computing (AC) Team’s OFFICE HOURS can help! AC holds office hours on all 3 campuses to assist you:
Gables Campus » Fridays 9AM-12PM (Ungar 330E) • Pedro Davila, Systems Administrator
RSMAS Campus » Wednesdays 9-11AM (MSC 223) • Warner Baringer, Senior Analyst/Systems Engineer
Medical Campus » Wednesdays 10AM-2PM (Soffer CRC 710) • Joel Zysman, Director
CCS AC can help with all kinds of technical troubles from how to use the new Triton supercomputer or Pegasus cluster, to queueing instructions, to resolving an error message. Consult with Pedro at the Gables Campus on Fridays from 9:00 AM-12:00 PM in the Arthur A. Ungar Building, 1365 Memorial Drive, Room 330E, Coral Gables, FL 33146.

SSI Lecture Series presents “Gigabytes for Good” 11/1/2019
2019-11-01 15:00 - 16:30 UTC | Abess Center, 1365 Memorial Drive, Suite 230C-D, Coral Gables, Florida, 33146
Gigabytes for Good
Friday, 11/1/2019, 3-4:30 PM | Otto G. Richter Library 3rd Floor Conference Room, 1300 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146
Can data science promote opportunity, equality, and equity?
Hear from three distinguished speakers focused on research that addresses these issues.
Please RSVP
This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Nick Petersen
Assistant Professor, Sociology, College of Arts & Sciences
Nick and his team are working to improved facial-recognition technology by making it more demographically inclusive.

Robert Latham
Associate Director, School of Law’s Children & Youth Law Clinic
Robert utilizes data science to uncover disturbing and promising patterns of use in Florida’s foster care System.

Lynn K. Perry
Assistant Professor, Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences
Lynn uses automated measures of speech in social contact to facilitate the language development of bilingual children with disabilities.

This lecture is part of a series presented by the Center for Computational Science Social Systems Informatics (SSI) group. SSI focuses on understanding of the nature of social interaction using the techniques and methods of data science. For more information, visit ccs.miami.edu/ssi, email ccs@miami.edu, or call 305.243.4962.

Richter Library Visitor Parking in YELLOW

Introduction to TRITON Workshop-RSMAS Campus
2019-11-07 12:00 - 16:00 UTC | Rosensteil School of Marine Atmospheric and Earth Science, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Virginia Key, Florida, 33149, United States
The University of Miami has unleashed Triton to the research community. Using the same AI-optimized architecture as the world’s most powerful supercomputer, Triton is UM’s first GPU-accelerated HPC system, representing a new approach to computational and data science. Built using IBM Power Systems AC922 servers, Triton was designed to maximize data movement between the IBM POWER9 CPU and attached accelerators, enabling students, researchers, and analysts to explore new possibilities.
The CCS Advanced Computing team is offering training sessions on TRITON on the RSMAS and Medical campuses (the Gables Session is past but will be offered again next semester). The training session will include information on how to create a new Triton account, utilize the pre-installed software, and best practices for using the new features on Triton for areas such as Deep Learning and Data Science.
This is a hands-on session, so please bring a laptop.
Register Now

RSMAS Campus Session – Thursday, November 7, 2019, 12:00 to 4:00 PM, in SLAB 103
Medical Campus Session – Friday, December 13, 2019, 12:00 to 4:00 PM Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, Suite 710

TRITON in the News . . .

South Florida Business Journal “University of Miami installs $3.7M Supercomputer“
Inside HPC “IBM Deploys TRITON AI Supercomputer at University of Miami“
HPC Wire “University of Miami Deploys $3.7M IBM Power System for AI, HPC“

Software Carpentry-Python Workshop 11/11-12/2019 Medical Campus
2019-11-11 09:00 - 2019-11-12 17:00 UTC | Louis Calder Memorial Library, 1601 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL, 33136, United States
Register Now | Syllabus forthcoming
This Bash, Python, and git workshop is capped at 35 participants, and is on a first-come/first-served basis.

Make yourself competitive in the job market
Take a personal project to the next level
Learn programming for data analysis

Trained instructors lead a comprehensive, hands-on overview of an introductory data analysis using Python, covering topics like data types, functions, conditional statements, loops, errors and exceptions, debugging, and some key Python libraries and writing Python programs that will work like Linux command-line tools. This workshop is designed to provide a foundation of basic concepts that all programming depends on, using Python as an example.
WHEN
Monday and Tuesday, November 11 and 12, 2019
8:00 AM Registration | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Course Hours, Both Days

LOCATION + PARKING
The Collaboratory is on the first floor of the Louis Calder Memorial Library (1601 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136). The closest and easiest paid parking is available in the Jackson Hospital parking garages nearby. There are 2: one just to the north, next to the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and the other is west, next to the Rosenstiel Medical Sciences Building (RMSB).
Medical Campus map | Directions
The parking garages are buildings 49 (P 10 – Red Garage) and 50 (P 11- Green Garage) on the map. Calder Library is building 15 on the map. The Red Garage is closest.
Daily Self-Parking Rates at Jackson Hospital Garages (from their website):
Up to 2 Hours: FREE
2 to 2 ½ Hours: $5
2 ½ to 3 Hours: $7
3 to 3 ½ Hours: $9
3 ½ to 24 Hours: $11
Lost Chip Coin: $16
GREEN GARAGE
Park Plaza West
Street Address: 1140 N.W. 16 St.
Spaces: 1897
Hours: 24/7
RED GARAGE
Park Plaza East
Street Address: 901 N.W. 17 St.
Spaces: 1694
Hours: 24/7
INSTRUCTORS
Tim Norris, PhD, Research Data Scientist | Cameron Riopelle, PhD, Data Services Librarian
NOTE: Please bring your own laptop (any OS).
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Brought to you by the Graduate School, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Aging, UM Libraries, and CCS.

SPONSORS

Brought to you by the Graduate School, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Aging, UM Libraries, and CCS, this 2-day workshop will provide you with the basic computing skills and best practices needed to be productive in a small research team. The format is a mixture of short seminars and hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions.

Software Carpentry-R Workshop 12/2-3/2019 RSMAS Campus
2019-12-02 08:30 - 2019-12-03 16:30 UTC | Rosensteil School of Marine Atmospheric and Earth Science, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Virginia Key, Florida, 33149, United States
Register Now | Syllabus forthcoming
Topics covered in this Workshop:

The Unix shell
Version control with git
Programming with R

Since the goal of this workshop is to bring you up to speed with data analysis, it would be incomplete without instruction on a shell as well as a version control system. The shell is important in building reproducible data analysis pipelines where your R scripts may be just one component, Git is an incredibly useful tool for version control, collaboration and management of your coding projects.

This Workshop is capped at 35 participants, and is on a first-come/ first-served basis.

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Play with data

Trained instructors lead a comprehensive, hands-on overview of what is possible with R, using an example dataset. Go from reading data into R to data types, functions, conditional statements, loops, how to write in RMarkdown, as well as best practices for writing R code that others can understand and use. This workshop is designed to provide a foundation of basic concepts that all programming depends on, using R as an example.
WHEN
Monday and Tuesday, December 2-3, 2019
8:30 AM Registration | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Course Hours, Both Days
WHERE
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmostpheric Science (RSMAS)
Science Laboratory and Administration Building (aka SLAB) | Library, Map and Chart Room
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Virginia Key, FL 33149
You may park on the first level of the first building as you enter on the left, or, you may park in the lot outside the fence along the road.
INSTRUCTORS
Tim Norris, PhD, Research Data Scientist | Cameron Riopelle, PhD, Data Services Librarian
NOTE: Please bring your own laptop (any OS).
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Brought to you by the Graduate School, the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and Aging, UM Libraries, and CCS, this 2-day workshop will provide you with the basic computing skills and best practices needed to be productive in a small research team. The format is a mixture of short seminars and hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions.

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