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. Don't miss this opportunity for one-on-one conversations with employers seeking your skill set, project experience, and motivation to push the needle forward in data science and data analytics. Join hiring representatives for casual conversations in the lounge area and browse their corporate materials in the booth section of Airmeet. We're scheduling time for "speed…
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On March 24 at 12 PM (EST), please join Carolina Data Science Now for “Transforming Youth Advocacy.” The event will feature three lightning talks by professors and researchers in UNC-Chapel Hill’s academic community, centered around how data science tools are applied to create safe, enriching environments for the growth and development of minors. Speakers will include Iheoma Iruka (Public Policy & FPG Child Development Institute), Milton Suggs (FPG Child Development Institute), and Emily Putnam-Hornstein (School of Social Work). These talks…
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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…
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In celebration of the school’s 90th Anniversary, please join the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS) for its second Conference on AI and Knowledge Work. The Conference will take place with face-to-face and virtual components over a two-day period.
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Antiracist researchers combat inequality and racism by conceptualizing, implementing, and disseminating research that dismantles racism, oppression, discrimination, and structural inequalities. This presentation offers participants an opportunity to learn how to engage in antiracist research by presenting a counter-narrative to the traditional conceptualization and implementation of research with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). During our time together, the panelists will define antiracist research offer unique principles for conducting antiracist research present challenges the antiracist researcher will encounter offer practical…
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Speakers of a language generalize their knowledge of syntax in a systematic way to constructions they have never encountered before. This observation has motivated the influential position in linguistics that humans are innately endowed with syntax-specific inductive biases. The applied success of deep learning systems that are not designed with such biases invites a reconsideration of this position. In this talk, Prof. Tal Linzen, Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Data Science at NYU, will review work that uses paradigms from…
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During this year's annual Carl Blyth Lecture, Dr. Christina Mack will be speaking on the use of Data Science in sports to protect athletes during the pandemic. Dr. Mack is an alumnus from UNC Public Health and currently serves as vice president of epidemiology and clinical evidence at IQVIA. She will reporting on much of the work she and her colleagues have done to guide the efforts of the NFL and NBA over the course of the pandemic. The UNC…
Find out more »The FABRIC team is proud to share its newest testbed release. The team has added many new production sites and has introduced the FABlib library; both of which increase the capabilities and usability of the testbed. The FABRIC community is cordially invited to participate in an upcoming FABRIC tutorial webinar, hosted by Paul Ruth. The purpose of this webinar is to introduce incoming and existing beta users to the new features and onboard new teams to the testbed. The FABlib library…
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The Hotelling Lectures are an annual event in the Department of Statistics & Operations Research at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, honoring the memory of Professor Harold Hotellin, their first chairman. This year, the STOR faculty and staff are honored to have Professor Bin Yu from the University of California at Berkeley deliver their two Hotelling lectures which are open to the public. Professor Bin Yu Departments of Statistics and Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences University of California at Berkeley…
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The FABRIC testbed leadership team will use the hour to provide site installation status updates, share new features on the testbed, and introduce tutorial sessions and videos. Additionally, the lead team will discuss how the platform enables novel approaches to distributed and network systems control and management by integrating artificial intelligence (AI), and how users can utilize the AI capabilities in their proposals, papers, workshops and more.
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