Building a community of student-led data science organizations
Description: The Midwest Big Data Hub hosts a webinar series during the academic year for student-led Data Science organizations to share and discuss their experiences, activities, structures, and goals, to foster development of a Midwestern data science student groups community. Contact the Hub if you are a student group leader or faculty advisor and would like to participate: info@midwestbigdatahub.org
Date and time: Spring 2020: last Wednesday of the month at 5:30-6:30 CST / 6:30-7:30 EST.
This webinar series is free and open to all. View the playlist of all prior events, or choose an individual webinar below.
2020 Schedule:
Wednesday, February 26, 2020, 5:30-6:30 CST / 6:30-7:30 EST
Presenters: Heidi Van Every, Riza Li, Adam Faranda, and Menolin Sharma, Bioinformatics Student Association (BiSA) | University of Delaware
Title: “BiSA: Encouraging Creative Student Collaboration and Participation in an Interdisciplinary Field”
Host: John MacMullen | MBDH Executive Director View the slides (pdf)
Webinar archive
Wednesday, November 13, 2019, 5:30-6:30 CST / 6:30-7:30 EST
Presenter: Lilian Huang, Lauren Li, and Damini Sharma, South Side Civic | University of Chicago
Title: “Scopeathon: Focusing on the Crucial First Step of Problem Definition”
Host: Alice Delage | Community Liaison, MBDH
Wednesday, March 27, 2019, 5:30-6:30 CST / 6:30-7:30 EST
Presenter: Elizabeth Wickes | Lecturer, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Special session: Developing data science capacity among students – a mentor’s view
Bio: Elizabeth Wickes is a Lecturer at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, where she teaches programming, data curation, and information technology courses. She was previously a Data Curation Specialist for the Research Data Service at the University Library of the University of Illinois, and the Curation Manager for Wolfram|Alpha. She currently co-organizes the Champaign-Urbana Python user group, has been a Carpentries instructor since 2015, trainer since 2017, and elected member of The Carpentries’ Executive Council for 2018-2020.
Host: Alice Delage | Community Liaison, MBDH
Wednesday, February 27, 2019, 5:30-6:30 CST / 6:30-7:30 EST
Presenter: Michael Madaio, Students Using Data for Social Good (SUDS) | Carnegie Mellon University
Title: “SUDS in Pittsburgh: Lessons learned from students using data for social good through community partnerships”
Host: Melissa Cragin | Exec. Dir. of the MBDH View the slides (pdf)
Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 5:30-6:30 CST / 6:30-7:30 EST
Presenter: Elizabeth McDaniel, ComBEE (Computational Biology, Ecology & Evolution) | UW-Madison
Title: “Integrating Computational Skills into the Biological Sciences through Peer-Led Study Groups”
Host: Melissa Cragin | Exec. Dir. of the MBDH View the slides (pdf)
Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 5:30-6:30 CST / 6:30-7:30 EST
Presenter: Shivam Kumar and Ian Huntley, Analytics in Business Club | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: “Illinois Analytics in Business: Driving Decisions with Data”
Host: Melissa Cragin | Exec. Dir. of the MBDH View the slides (pdf)
Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 5:30-6:30 CST / 6:30-7:30 EST
Presenters:
Jeremy Klein, Parker Scott and Alycia Holwerda, DREAM | Minnesota State University, Mankato, “DREAM: Empowering students for a successful data science career”
Timothy NeCamp, STATCOM | University of Michigan, “STATCOM (Statistics in the Community)- A student organization providing pro-bono statistical consulting for local community organizations”
Host: Melissa Cragin | Exec. Dir. of the MBDH
Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 5:30-6:30 CST / 6:30-7:30 EST
Presenters: James (J.T.) Bassett and Cole Smith, Big Data and Analytics Association | Ohio State University
Title: “BDAA at OSU: Empowering the Future of Analytics Talent”
Host: Melissa Cragin | Exec. Dir. of the MBDH View the slides (pdf)
Wednesday, February 28, 2018, 5:30-6:30 CST / 6:30-7:30 EST
Presenters:
Divyam Balani and Vaibhav Shah, Data science in Practice | Indiana University, “Data Science In Practice – An Overview”
Harshit Agarwal, Association of Data Science and Analytics | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Association of Data Science and Analytics – Taking Data Science Beyond the Hype”
Host: Lior Shamir, Asst. Dean for Research | Lawrence Technical University, MI.
Wednesday, January 31, 2018, 5:30-6:30 CST / 6:30-7:30 EST
Presenter: Arya Farahi, Michigan Data Science Team | University of Michigan
Title: “The Michigan Data Science Team: A Data Science Education Program with Social Impact”
Host: Melissa Cragin | Exec. Dir. of the MBDH View the slides (pdf)