Frost Institute for Data Science & Computing

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, 2019-10-30 10:00 - 14:00, 2019-10-23 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, 2019-10-30 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).
____________________
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, 2019-10-26 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).
____________________
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.

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“

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
