Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing

Free Screening of "Data Science Pioneers"
2020-02-25 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Tickets at Eventbrite
What does it mean to be a “Data Scientist”? It’s hard to tell the difference between data-science hype and reality. Learn from leading data scientists what’s real and what they’re excited about at a screening of the documentary film “Data Science Pioneers” at the Cosford Cinema on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 | 6:00-8:30 PM Runtime: 61m
Even though the title “Data Scientist” is new, the role has a long lineage in statistics and information sciences. And while the challenges data scientists now face occur on an unprecedented scale today, they stand on the shoulders of technical and ethical quandaries that came before (after all, the question of self-driving cars is the trolley problem made real).
In this film, real data scientists contextualize the role and why they love it, while exploring the concerns and challenges to come. Data Science Pioneers is proof that data scientists aren’t just data-crazy mathematicians that happen to work in a cutting-edge field; they enjoy their work and want to take on difficult ethical questions, too. They want to make a difference.
For the non-data scientist, Data Science Pioneers is still a critical piece of the puzzle that is the future of AI—it’s about getting to know the people that are building systems that affect everyone’s day-to-day lives. Accepting AI as an inevitability is complex and might start with data scientists themselves, but it’s a fundamental change that will affect all, and that cannot happen in isolation. Data Science Pioneers brings the story that will fuel discussions about not only how to construct a solid foundation for AI, but also, how to construct a supportive community of those responsible for building it.
Runtime: 61m | Watch the trailer.
Data Science Pioneers Trailer from Dataiku.com on Vimeo. | Documentary Website: datascience.movie

Solutions Center Office Hours-Medical Campus
2020-02-19 10:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | 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 Advanced Computing (AC) Team’s OFFICE HOURS can help! AC holds office hours on all 3 campuses to assist you:
Gables Campus: Thursdays 2-4:30 PM | Ungar 330E | Kalan Dawson, Systems Administrator
RSMAS Campus: Wednesdays 9-11 AM | MSC 223 | Warner Baringer, Senior Analyst/Systems Engineer
Medical Campus: Wednesdays 10 AM-2 PM | Soffer CRC 7th Floor | Pedro Davila, Systems Administrator
Advanced Computing 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 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.

Solutions Center Office Hours-RSMAS Campus
2020-02-19 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | 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 Advanced Computing (AC) Team’s OFFICE HOURS can help! AC holds office hours on all 3 campuses to assist you:
Gables Campus: Thursdays 2-4:30 PM | Ungar 330E | Kalan Dawson, Systems Administrator [NOTE: No Gables Office Hours on 2/27/2020]
RSMAS Campus: Wednesdays 9-11 AM | MSC 223 | Warner Baringer, Senior Analyst/Systems Engineer
Medical Campus: Wednesdays 10 AM-2 PM | Soffer CRC 7th Floor | Pedro Davila, Systems Administrator [NOTE: No Medical Office Hours on 2/26/2020.]
Advanced Computing 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.

Data Intersections: Ethics of Data, Technology, + Design 2/13/2020
2020-02-13 14:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Newman Alumni Center, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Register Now
CCS is pleased to announce the guest speakers for Data Intersections 2020. Join us on Thursday, February 13, 2020 at the Newman Alumni Center 3:00-7:00 PM. This event is free and open to the public. Registration opens at 2:30 PM.
Data Intersections is an annual symposium featuring speakers from the fields of data science, statistics, data journalism, and the digital humanities. The 2020 session theme is “Conversations About the Ethics of Data, Technology, and Design.” Speakers include: Mike Monteiro @monteiro on the design of technologies, and Heather Krause @datassist on the ethics of data analysis and gender.

Speakers

Ken Goodman
Director, Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy
Co-Director, UM Ethics Programs
Kenneth W. Goodman, PhD, FACMI, FACE, is Founder and Director of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy and Co-Director of the University’s Ethics Programs. The Institute has been designated a World Health Organization Collaborating Center in Ethics and Global Health Policy, one of ten in the world. He is a co-founder of the North American Center for Ethics and Health Information Technology, a partnership with the Center for Bioethics at Indiana University.
Dr. Goodman is also a Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami with appointments in the Department of Philosophy, Department of Health Informatics, Department of Public Health Sciences, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Nursing and Health Studies and Department of Anesthesiology.

Otávio Bueno
Professor and Chair, Philosophy Department, University of Miami
Cooper Senior Scholar in Arts and Science
Editor-in-Chief, Synthese
Editor-in-Chief, Synthese Library Book Series
Most of my work focuses on philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of logic. I have been trying to develop an empiricist view about science that is compatible with a nominalist view about mathematics and logic. Not an easy task, but one that has led me to explore also a number of fascinating and interrelated issues in metaphysics, epistemology and logic.
Talk Title: Data: Big and Small
Data need to be obtained, stored, displayed, analyzed, interpreted, and shared. At each stage, ethical and epistemological issues emerge, often in intertwined ways. In some cases, the data that is needed cannot be obtained because it is ethically unacceptable to do so; and what can be obtained does not settle a number of pressing issues. Once obtained, some data contain sensitive information that needs to be safely stored. But how can this be done responsibly and effectively? There are often different ways of displaying and analyzing the same data, which opens up different interpretations. How can the accuracy of such interpretations be assessed and determined? Finally, data need to be shared in responsible ways, but often there are distinct mechanisms of disseminating the data, and misleading ways of doing so. In this talk, I will develop a framework to think about data, whether big or small, and consider these issues.

Heather Krause
Founder of Datassist and We All Count
Heather Krause, PStat, is a data scientist with over a decade of experience building tools that improve practices and systems. Heather is a statistician with years of experience working on complex data problems and producing real world knowledge. She has a strong love of finding data, analyzing it in creative ways and using cutting edge visualization methods to visualize the results. Her emphasis is on combining strong statistical analysis with clear and meaningful communication. She is currently working on implementing tools for equity and ethics in data. As the founder of two successful data science companies, she attacks the largest questions facing societies today, working with both civic and corporate organizations to improve outcomes and lives. Her relentless pursuit of clarity and realism in these projects pushed her beyond pure analysis to mastering the entire data ecosystem including award winning work in data sourcing, modelling, and data storytelling, each incorporating bleeding edge theory and technologies.
Her work proves that data narratives can be meaningful to any audience from a boardroom to the front page. Heather is the founder of We All Count, a project for equity in data working with teams across the globe to embed a lens of ethics into their data products from funding to data collection to statistical analysis and algorithmic accountability. Her unique set of tools and contributions have been sought across a range of clients from MasterCard and Wells Fargo to the United Nations, the Canadian Government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She is on the Data Advisory Board of the UNHCR.
Talk Title: How not to use data like a racist, sexist, homophobe (etc. . . .) A seven-step framework for ethics and equity in data
Very few people build data products because they want to promote racist or sexist ideas. However, it’s very easy to accidentally fall into these traps, particularly when there’s so much talk about the objectivity of evidence. It’s really easy to make mistakes when using data. A working understanding of how to incorporate ethics and equity into data products is essential for anyone conducting data analysis or making decisions based on data analysis. This talk provides you with several shocking real-world examples and a seven-step framework for identifying inequity and hidden bias in the data product lifecycle. As interest in ethics in data grows, this remains one of the few actionable frameworks for making equitable change in the way you use data as a team. It has been successfully implemented to improve ethics within data, algorithms, dashboards and more at Mastercard, Oxfam, the UN, the Margaret Cargill Foundation, Borealis, and several national governments.

Yeshimabeit Milner
Founder of Data for Black Lives
2017 Black Male Achievement Fellow
Yeshimabeit Milner is the Founder & Executive Director of Data for Black Lives. She has worked since she was 17 behind the scenes as a movement builder, technologist and data scientist on a number of campaigns. She started Data for Black Lives because for too long she straddled the worlds of data and organizing and was determined to break down the silos to harness the power of data to make change in the lives of Black people. In two years, Data for Black Lives has raised over $2 million, hosted two sold out conferences at the MIT Media Lab and has changed the conversation around big data & technology across the US and globally.
As the founder of Data for Black Lives, her work has received much acclaim. Yeshimabeit is an Echoing Green Black Male Achievement Fellow, an Ashoka Fellow and joins the founders of Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street in the distinguished inaugural class of Roddenberry Foundation Fellows. Most recently she was named, along with Data for Black Lives co-founder Lucas Mason-Brown, one of Forbes 30 Under 30. Yeshimabeit has a BA from Brown University and serves on the board of the historic Highlander Center for Research & Education.
Talk Title: Abolish Big Data
Big Data is more than a collection of technologies, more than a revolution in measurement and prediction. It has become a philosophy, an ideological regime, one that determines how decisions are made and who makes them. It has given legitimacy to a new form of social and political control, one that has taken the digital traces of our existence and found ways to use them to sort and manage populations. Big Data is part of a long and pervasive historical legacy of scientific oppression, aggressive public policy, and the most influential political and economic institution that has and continues to shape this country’s economy: chattel slavery. Algorithms and other data technologies are the engines that have facilitated the ongoing evolution of chattel slavery into the Prison Industrial Complex, justified the militarization of schoolyards and borders alike, and continued the expansion of contemporary practices of peonage. This talk serves as a call to action to reject the concentration of Big Data in the hands of a few, to challenge the structures that allow data to be wielded as a weapon of immense political influence. To abolish Big Data would mean to put data in the hands of people who need it the most.

Mike Monteiro
Co-Founder, Design Director | Mule Design
Mike Monteiro is the co-founder and design director of Mule Design. He prefers that designers have strong spines. Mike writes and speaks frequently about the craft, ethics, and business of design. His most recent book is Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It. He is also the author of Design is a Job and You’re My Favorite Client, both from A Book Apart. Mike received the 2014 Net award for Conference Talk of the Year for his inspirational polemic on responsibility, “How Designers Destroyed the World.”
Talk Title: The Smallest Sliver of Hope
We built the engine that broke the world. We built the machines that turned vitriol into profit for bankers and billionaires. And we turned a blind eye because of the crumbs falling from their table. But as the window closes on humanity, and we finally realize the error of our ways, do we have a shot? Can we turn things around? Is there even the smallest sliver of hope? Possibly. But you’re not gonna like it.

Tentative AGENDA
2:30 Registration Opens
3:00 Program Begins | Speakers and Panel Discussion
6:30 Networking Reception

Solutions Center Office Hours-Gables Campus
2020-02-13 14:00 - 16:30, 2020-02-06 14:00 - 16:30, 2020-01-30 14:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | 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 » Thursdays 2:00-4:30 PM (Ungar 330F) • Kalan Dawson, Systems Administrator
RSMAS Campus » Wednesdays 9:00-11:00 AM (MSC 223) • Warner Baringer, Senior Analyst/Systems Engineer
Medical Campus » Wednesdays 10:00 AM-2:00 PM (Soffer CRC 710) • Pedro Davila, Systems Administrator
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 Kalan at the Gables Campus on Thursdays from 2:00-4:30PM in the Arthur A. Ungar Building, 1365 Memorial Drive, Room 330E, Coral Gables, FL 33146.

Solutions Center Office Hours-Gables Campus
2020-01-23 14:00 - 16:30, 2020-01-09 14:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | 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 » Thursdays 2:00-4:30 PM (Ungar 330F) • Kalan Dawson, Systems Administrator
RSMAS Campus » Wednesdays 9:00-11:00 AM (MSC 223) • Warner Baringer, Senior Analyst/Systems Engineer
Medical Campus » Wednesdays 10:00 AM-2:00 PM (Soffer CRC 710) • Pedro Davila, Systems Administrator
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 Kalan at the Gables Campus on Thursdays from 2:00-4:30 PM in the Arthur A. Ungar Building, 1365 Memorial Drive, Room 330E, Coral Gables, FL 33146.

Solutions Center Office Hours-Gables Campus
2020-01-16 14:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | Arthur A. Ungar Building, 1365 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
NOTE: The regular THURSDAY Office Hours was moved from Thursday January 16, to Tuesday, January 14.
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 » Thursdays 2:00-4:30 PM (Ungar 330E) • Kalan Dawson, Systems Administrator
RSMAS Campus » Wednesdays 9:00-11:00 AM (MSC 223) • Warner Baringer, Senior Analyst/Systems Engineer
Medical Campus » Wednesdays 10:00 AM-2:00 PM (Soffer CRC 710) • Pedro Davila, Systems Administrator
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 Kalan at the Gables Campus on Thursdays from 2:00-4:30PM in the Arthur A. Ungar Building, 1365 Memorial Drive, Room 330E, Coral Gables, FL 33146.

Solutions Center Office Hours-RSMAS Campus
2019-12-18 09:00 - 11:00 UTC | FL
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.

Introduction to TRITON Workshop-Medical Campus
2019-12-13 12:00 - 14:00 UTC | Don Soffer Clinical Research Center, 1120 NW 14th St, Miami, FL, 33136, 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 a training session on TRITON at the Medical campus on Friday, December 13. 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

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“

Big Data + VizUM 2019
2019-12-11 14:30 - 19:00 UTC | Newman Alumni Center, 6200 San Amaro Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, United States
Register Here! (Free)

CCS, in collaboration with the College of Arts and Sciences, Miami Business School, and the School of Communication, invites you to the 4th annual Big Data Conference, and its annual data visualization celebration, VizUM.
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. Participate in panel discussions on Big Data, and to network with data visualization experts, south Florida private- and public-sector policy makers, entrepreneurs, educators, and researchers, and healthcare providers.
Data Visualization is a burgeoning field of study at the University of Miami and other top academic research institutions. From devising app-based tools, to organizing vast scientific datum into bite-size morsels, data visualizers often begin their career journey as computer scientists, journalists, academic researchers, coders, or graphic designers. The common thread is that they have all developed a keen interest in recasting complex data in visually appealing ways to broaden the understanding of the world in which we live. Data Visualization guest speakers will include Jessica Hullman, PhD, Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Journalism at Northwestern University, and Alberto Cairo, PhD, Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami School of Communication.
This year’s Conference focuses on capacity building and cybersecurity.

Call For Posters . . .

Tentative Agenda

12:00
Registration and Poster Session

2:00
Break | Poster Judging Process

2:30
Keynote Lecture

3:15
PANEL Session “Digital Disruption”

4:30
Break

4:45
VizUM | Jessica Hullman

5:30
VizUM | Alberto Cairo

6:10
Prize for Best Poster | Reception Begins

Keynote Speaker (TBA)

PANEL Session “Digital Disruption”

Matthew Denesuk
Senior Vice President, Data Analytics & AI
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
Technologist, scientist, and sometimes-business guy with a great desire to apply data, business theory, physics, and math to make the world work better, Matthew loves to develop and deploy new technology, and to grow organizational capability that can do it at scale.
Patents

Generating Estimates of Failure Risk for a Vehicular Component in Situations of High-Dimensional and Low Sample Size Data
Generating Cumulative Wear-Based Indicators for Vehicular Components
Amusement articles possessing microbe-inhibiting properties
Bedding articles possessing microbe-inhibiting properties
Busbars for electrically powered cells
Data store for knowledge-based data mining system
Degradable animal chewing article possessing enhanced safety, durability and mouth-feel
Degradable plastics possessing a microbe-inhibiting quality
Generating cumulative wear-based indicators for vehicular components
Integrating economic considerations to develop a component replacement policy based on a cumulative wear-based indicator for a vehicular component
Knowledge-based data mining system
Mastication article possessing microbe-inhibiting properties
Monitoring and planning for failures of vehicular components
Service engagement management using a standard framework

Moderator

Michael Mannino, PhD
Director of Programs | UM CCS
Dr. Michael Mannino joined the CCS in April 2019 as Director of Programs. He has his PhD in complex systems and brain sciences, and his research was in computational neuroscience, specifically computational modeling of large-scale brain networks using nonlinear dynamical systems and neural time series analysis. Michael also has his Masters in philosophy, focusing on the philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind, and has been a professor of philosophy at Miami Dade College, teaching several courses. He is passionate about the topics of science communication, complexity science, and all things brain.

VizUM Data Visualization Speakers

Jessica Hullman, PhD
Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Journalism, Northwestern University
Jessica Hullman is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Journalism at Northwestern. The goal of her research is to develop computational tools that improve how people reason with and make decisions from data. She is especially interested in challenges that arise in presenting data to non-expert audiences, where the need to convey a clear story often conflicts with goals of transparency and faithful presentation of uncertainty. Her current research focus is on uncertainty representation through interactive visual interfaces that enable users to articulate and reason about their prior beliefs. Jessica’s research has been supported by a Microsoft Faculty Fellowship, and awards from NSF (CRII, CAREER), Navy, Google, Tableau, and Adobe.
Prior to joining Northwestern, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington Information School. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Michigan and she spent a year as a Postdoctoral Scholar in Computer Science at the University of California Berkeley.

Alberto Cairo, PhD
Associate Professor | Knight Chair in Visual Journalism
UM School of Communication

Alberto Cairo is an Associate Professor and Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the University of Miami. He is also director of the visualization program of UM’s Center for Computational Science. Cairo spent more than a decade working in the news industry, as director of information graphics in publications in Spain and Brazil. He also works as a freelancer and permanent consultant for companies and government entities such as Google and the Congressional Budget Office. Cairo is the author of three books about visualization, ‘The Functional Art’ (2013), ‘The Truthful Art’ (2016), and the upcoming ‘How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information’ (October 2019).

Conference Organizers

Alberto Cairo, PhD
Associate Professor | Knight Chair in Visual Journalism
UM School of Communication

Joseph Johnson, PhD
Associate Professor | Miami Business School

Michael Mannino, PhD
Director of Programs | UM CCS

Mitsunori Ogihara, PhD
Professor | UM Department of Computer Science
Program Director | Big Data Analytics & Data Mining

Location
Newman Alumni Center, Multipurpose ABC, 6200 San Amaro Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33146 | Directions + Event Parking information TBA
Parking Instructions (Free)

Anyone with a UM parking permit does not need register their vehicle with the link. Please park according to the type of permit you have.
Non-UM Speakers and Moderators will be given specific parking instructions.
All other non-UM attendees will be sent a link to register their vehicles (just need to enter your license plate number) a week before the event via email.
Your Big Data event parking session will be valid from 12/11 at 1:00 PM until 8:00 PM
Approved parking locations: Grey Zone Lots based on availability.

Solutions Center Office Hours-Medical Campus
2019-12-11 10:00 - 14:00, 2019-12-04 10:00 - 14:00, 2019-11-20 10:00 - 14:00, 2019-11-13 10:00 - 14:00, 2019-11-06 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.

Solutions Center Office Hours-RSMAS Campus
2019-12-11 09:00 - 11:00 UTC, 2019-12-04 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York), 2019-11-20 09:00 - 11:00 UTC, 2019-11-13 09:00 - 11:00 UTC, 2019-11-06 09:00 - 11:00 UTC | Rosensteil School of Marine Atmospheric and Earth Science, 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway, Virginia Key, Florida, 33149, United States

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.

Make yourself competitive in the job market
Take a personal project to the next level
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.

SPONSORS

Solutions Center Office Hours-Gables Campus
2019-11-15 09:00 - 12:00, 2019-11-08 09:00 - 12:00, 2019-11-01 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.

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.

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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.

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.
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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“

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.

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