Datathon for Women of Color

The South Big Data Hub will join HerWILL (Women Inspired in Life and Leadership) for the “First Ever Datathon for Women of Color,” a competition preceded by four weeks of Data Science Basic workshops on Machine Learning, Databases, Data Scrubbing, and Data Science Opportunities with some of the top industry leaders in innovation, business, and technology from local, national, and international arenas. Participants will have the opportunity to participate in a data science basics workshop, a datathon, and an awards ceremony.

• Motivation + Why / Technical Support + Set Up | March 28 — Farhana Hasan & Tanzeem Haque
• Introduction into Data & Databases | April 1 — Tanzeem Haque
• Statistics / Descriptive Analysis, Part 1 | April 4 — Dr. Edda Kloppmann
• Statistics / Descriptive Analysis, Part 2 | April 8 — Dr. Edda Kloppmann
• Overview of Data Science Methods | April 11 — Tanzeem Haque
• Machine Learning, Part 1 | April 15 — Dr. Edda Kloppmann & Tanzeem Haque
• Machine Learning, Part 2 | April 18 — Saqib Hasan
• Evaluation & Validation | April 22 — Karolina Worf