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November 2018

Jupyter Day in the Triangle

November 13, 2018 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
The Carolina Club at George Watts Hill Alumni Center, 150 Stadium Drive
Chapel Hill, NC 27514 United States
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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…

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Coffee & Viz — Modeling the Chemical Space

November 16, 2018 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Teaching and Visualization lab, James B. Hunt Library, 1070 Partners Way
Raleigh, NC 27606 United States
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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.

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January 2019

TriPython Project Night

January 9, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Biltmore Conference Room, 100 Europa Drive, Suite 540
Chapel Hill, NC 27517 United States
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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!

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Social Cybersecurity Working Group

January 10, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Virtual

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…

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Massachusetts Responds to the Opioid Epidemic: Using Data to Inform Policy and Programs

January 11, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
DaVinci Conference Room

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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Data Sharing and Cyberinfrastructure Working Group

January 11, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Virtual

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…

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Coffee & Viz – Up Close and Entomological: Visualizing Arthropod Diversity through Macro Photography

January 18, 2019 @ 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Teaching and Visualization lab, James B. Hunt Library, 1070 Partners Way
Raleigh, NC 27606 United States
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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.

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TriPython January 2019 Meeting: Python Testing With PyTest

January 24, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Biltmore Conference Room, 100 Europa Drive, Suite 540
Chapel Hill, NC 27517 United States
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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."

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February 2019

An Overview of the Google Cloud Public Datasets Program

February 1, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
DaVinci Conference Room

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.

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Data Sharing and Cyberinfrastructure Working Group

February 1, 2019 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Virtual

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).

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