Join the South Hub Data Sharing and Cyberinfrastructure Working Group Monica Bharel, MD, MPH, Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health | Massachusetts Responds to the Opioid Epidemic: Using Data to Inform Policy and Programs. The All-Hub Data and CyberInfrastructure Working Group was relaunched as an All-Hub working group in collaboration with all four Big Data Hubs. The WG organizes bi-monthly meetings. To date, the WG has held 21 WebEx presentations and demos of key components for a federated…
Find out more »Arthropods — including insects, spiders, and mites — are all around us, yet often go unnoticed. In this presentation, Dr. Matt Bertone, entomologist at NC State’s Plant Disease & Insect Clinic, will focus on the use of traditional and advanced macro photography techniques to capture and communicate images of arthropods in ways our eyes alone cannot.
Find out more »Tim Hopper will present PyTest. Tim says, "In this talk, I will introduce Pytest, a testing framework for Python (e.g. an alternative to unittest or Nose. Pytest is simple enough to allow you to start writing tests with zero boiler plate, but grows with your project into a powerful solution for even the most complex software projects."
Find out more »This presentation will provide an overview of the Google Cloud Public Datasets Program, which includes datasets stored in both Google Cloud Storage and Google BigQuery. It will highlight the program's efforts, key datasets, and how the program works with both data users and data providers to make it easier to share data publicly.
Find out more »Join the South Hub Data Sharing and Cyberinfrastructure Working Group Shane Glass, Google BigQuery | An Overview of the Google Cloud Public Datasets Program. The All-Hub Data and CyberInfrastructure Working Group was relaunched as an All-Hub working group in collaboration with all four Big Data Hubs. The WG organizes bi-monthly meetings. To date, the WG has held 21 WebEx presentations and demos of key components for a federated system (20-30 attendees per call).
Find out more »Attend the NCDS Networking Event for data science area employees looking to hire 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. Student attendees will have a unique opportunity to speak with company representatives and learn about job opportunities and skill sets needed for success in data analytics fields.
Find out more »Join the South Hub Social Cybersecurity Working Group Connie Moon Sehat, Credibility Coalition, "Credibility Coalition: Frameworks for Creative Collaboration around Misinformation and Beyond". The Security, Network Analysis, and Social Media Working Group is a new working group that will create a collaborative and interdisciplinary platform bringing researchers and practitioners from various disciplines to share, exchange, learn, and develop new concepts, ideas, and principles, aiming to advance the understanding and the current state of research in the socio-cognitive security domain.
Find out more »Martin Foys, professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will discuss the Digital Mappa resource, a powerful tool used by digital humanities scholars to transform their work. Foys is an expert on the Bayeux Tapestry, a medieval embroidered cloth which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England. Foys will discuss Digital Mappa in relation to his own work on the digital Bayeux Tapestry, and to the recent work at the NC State University Libraries on a life-sized digital version of the Tapestry.
Find out more »Attend the TRiRODS Meeting 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 »Sonification is an emerging area of informatics wherein datasets are made available to visually impaired researchers. As a field, it is gaining traction for a number of reasons, including accessibility and the possibility for new insights gained due to the ear’s strength at pattern recognition. In this talk, Mark Ballora, professor of Music Technology at Penn State, will go over principles of how to represent information with sound, as well as give examples of work that he has done with researchers in a variety of areas, including cosmology, cardiology, meteorology, and marine biology.
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