In this talk, Ian Cook will discuss how to apply the tenets of R's dplyr package (immutability, chaining, consistency, parsimony) when working with Python's pandas library. In the R community, dplyr is the most widely used data manipulation package. dplyr provides a small, consistent set set of "verbs" (functions) that you can use to perform most common operations on R data frames.
Find out more »Please join Amazon Web Services (AWS), the South Big Data Innovation Hub, and RENCI for an Amazon Web Services Training on Wednesday, October 31st from 8:30am to 4:45pm ET. This workshop will introduce advanced topics in AWS and take you through a deep-dive into AWS core services.
Find out more »The UNC Office of Technology Commercialization is hosting a seminar featuring leaders from the NC Biotechnology Center. The NC Biotech team will share the latest news about funding programs for university researchers and companies. Get information about new changes to NC Biotech’s grant programs, along with updates on its loan programs, agricultural initiatives, corporate recruitment efforts and life science intelligence resources. Audience: Faculty, researchers and graduate students Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nc-biotech-center-review-of-funding-options-for-technology-development-tickets-51520271519
Find out more »A cutting-edge tool, itk-jupyter-widgets, can be sued to interactively explore your data and the behavior of your algorithms. By leveraging the high-performance
rendering capabilities of modern web browsers, cross-platform 3D visualization, without software installation, is possible.
This workshop will facilitate a national, interdisciplinary scientific research discussion on modeling and managing climate change risks between three different but related research communities: the climate modeling and data community, statisticians, and researchers within the insurance and reinsurance industries. This workshop is organized jointly by SAMSI, RAA, RENCI, and WFU-CEES, with additional support from the NSF, SOA and CAS. To apply for registration, go to http://cees.wfu.edu/nexus/. Some funding is available to students and early career researchers. For all questions, please…
Find out more »Jupyter Day in the Triangle is a single-day conference for Jupyter users in the Southeast. The event takes place at The Carolina Club to showcase applications of the open source software created by Project Jupyter and community. These interactive technologies are reshaping how people interact with code and data in industry and academia. Jupyter in the Triangle is a chance for Jupyter users of all experience levels to share and learn about the state-of-the-art in open source scientific computing. We expect an exciting…
Find out more »There are as many potential drug-like chemicals as stars in the whole universe. Synthesizing and testing all those compounds experimentally is impossible. Denis Fourches, assistant professor of Chemistry in NC State’s College of Sciences, will discuss the rise of cheminformatics and artificial intelligence to model, visualize, and virtually screen those chemicals for various applications in drug discovery, chemical risk assessment, and green chemistry.
Find out more »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!
Find out more »Join the South Hub Social Cybersecurity Working Group Dr. Sarah Oates, University of Maryland and the Wilson Center, and Joseph Barrow of the University of Maryland | From Words to Data: Challenges in Building a Cyborg Classifier to Track Russian Disinformation in U.S. News 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…
Find out more »NSF Big Data Hubs “Data Sharing and Cyberinfrastructure WG.” Commissioner Monica Bharel, MD, MPH will present on the current state of the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts and the innovative, data-driven approach that the Department of Public Health is using to analyze, understand and ultimately combat the epidemic.
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