A presentation by Joshua Blumenstock, Assistant Professor, Information School, University of Washington Description: A presentation by Joshua Blumenstock, Assistant Professor, Information School, University of Washington Date: Thursday, February 5, 2015 Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Location: Donald Bren Hall Room 4011 (directions) RSVP is not required Co-sponsored by the UCI Data Science Initiative (datascience.uci.edu) and […]
Privacy-preserving data analysis has a large literature that spans several disciplines. "Differential privacy" -- a notion tailored to situations in which data are plentiful -- has provided a theoretically sound and powerful framework, and given rise to an explosion of research. We will review the definition of differential privacy, describe some algorithmic contributions, and conclude […]
In this talk, we will give an overview of real time analytics, discuss the twitter real time data pipeline and how Storm is used for extracting analytics. We will also discuss the challenges we faced and lessons we have learned while building this infrastructure at Twitter. Description: In this talk, we will give an overview […]
This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, programming in Python, version control and task automation in the Unix shell. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems. Please understand that space is limited! Description: The UC Irvine Data […]
A presentation by Professor Wilbert van Panhuis, Department of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh. Description: A presentation by Professor Wilbert van Panhuis, Department of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh. Date: March 9, 2015 Time: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Location: Calit2 Auditorium (directions) This event is hosted by the UCI Program in Public Health […]
The UCI Data Science Initiative is hosting a one day symposium on recent research advances in network modeling and analysis. The interdisciplinary event will feature speakers from different backgrounds and perspectives, including social network analysis, criminology, computer science, and statistics. Description: The UCI Data Science Initiative is hosting a one day symposium on recent research advances in network modeling and […]
This course covers how to best exploit the bash shell for both interactive work and batch jobs, moving & simple manipulation of data, as well very short introductions to programming in bash, Perl, and R. This is not computer science; this is a driver's license. Description: This course is for researchers who have never used […]
This course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of the R language. Description: This course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of the R language. In this course, you will learn how to program in R and how to effectively use R to do data analysis. The course covers introduction to data/object types in R, […]
This course is for researchers who have never used Linux and/or a compute cluster and introduces concepts and best practices for both. Note: this course is a repeated offering of the earlier linux course on April 6. Description: This course is for researchers who have never used Linux and/or a compute cluster and introduces concepts […]
Learn about the practice of predictive modeling using Python. Description: Learn about the practice of predictive modeling using Python. To find out about future one-day courses, please join our mailing list. Python is a popular language for scientific processing and machine learning. This course will introduce general modeling concepts in addition to concrete examples based […]