Attend the Data Matters courses Data Matters™ is a week-long series of one and two-day courses aimed at students and professionals in business, research, and government. The short course series is sponsored by the National Consortium for Data Science in collaboration with North Carolina State University, RENCI and the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at UNC-Chapel Hill.Data Matters gives students the chance to learn about a wide range of topics in data science, analytics, visualization, curation, and more…
Find out more »Attend the TriPython Chapel Hill Project Night Chapel Hill Project Night meets on second Wednesdays. Have a project you want to show off, share, seek help with, or just get some work done surrounded by like-minded Python lovers? Join us for our monthly project night and do just that! Don't have something to work on? Just need some help with Python? Show up and enjoy the energy, sprint on an open source project, find something interesting to contribute to or be inspired by! The setting is…
Find out more »Attend the TRiRODS Meetup TRiRODS is a local meetup for iRODS users and developers in the RDU area. TRiRODS works to build a strong sense of community, to offer a space for collaboration and sharing of individual implementations of iRODS, and to further the work on a hardened version of the code.
Find out more »Join the Introduction to Chameleon Webinar This tutorial describes how to use the Chameleon Cloud test bed to perform computer science experimentation. It showcases Chameleon’s fully customizable and accessible collection of computation, storage, and networking resources. The tutorial walks through the computer science experimental process and provides hands on experience with making a hardware reservation and running a pre-designed experiment on Chameleon.
Find out more »Join the Introduction to Chameleon Webinar This tutorial describes how to use the Chameleon Cloud test bed to perform computer science experimentation. It showcases Chameleon’s fully customizable and accessible collection of computation, storage, and networking resources. The tutorial walks through the computer science experimental process and provides hands on experience with making a hardware reservation and running a pre-designed experiment on Chameleon.
Find out more »Attend the TRiRODS Meetup TRiRODS is a local meetup for iRODS users and developers in the RDU area. TRiRODS works to build a strong sense of community, to offer a space for collaboration and sharing of individual implementations of iRODS, and to further the work on a hardened version of the code. Demo TBD
Find out more »This talk is titled What is FABRIC? and will be presented by FABRIC's Anita Nikolich. Designing, building, and maintaining advanced cyberinfrastructure to support scientific use cases can be challenging. There are numerous items to learn about, and the learning can be never ending. As a community, it is important for all of us to be available to answer questions, propose new ideas, and build upon our collective knowledge. Starting in 2017 ESnet, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation, began sponsoring semi-weekly…
Find out more »Determining a Short List of Amazon Reviews using Statistical Text Analytics and Optimization Customers want to make informed purchasing decisions without a lot of effort. Online reviews can be helpful, but which reviews are worth reading? What we could say "Read these 3 reviews, they essentially contain the same information as all 4000 reviews."? Dr. Douglas Kline will present a method for selecting subsets of reviews that are similar to the set of all reviews, using document-term frequency analysis and…
Find out more »This talk will cover key considerations for replacing a bespoke or completely manual process for handling database migrations with a new process built around Alembic or Django migrations. Jeff will also show a few specific tricks he has collected for Alembic to support his current project. The talk will not replace the Alembic or Django tutorials. Jeff Trawick has been learning and enjoying Python for about eight years, using it to develop web applications, web scrapers, and other software. He…
Find out more »The National Consortium for Data Science (NCDS) will host a networking event for students from around North Carolina interested in careers in analytics and data science. The event will be held at the Sheraton Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, NC. NCDS members and other employers who attend the networking event will have the chance to interact with and potentially recruit top-tier analytics and data science talent. ** Please contact us at info@datascienceconsortium.org if you'd like to have a booth to meet with…
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