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September 2016

Data Science Skills Series Web Scraping with Python

September 6, 2016 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Web Scraping with Python We will provide an overview of how to scrape data from html pages and website APIs using Python. For demonstration purposes, we will scrape sports and…

October 2016

Machine Learning in Python (Scikit-Learn)

October 12, 2016 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

This workshop will cover the essentials of unsupervised machine learning algorithms using Python's Scikit-learn library. We will focus on K-Means and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The workshop is designed for intermediate to advanced…

November 2016

Info Session: Data Services at U-M

November 1, 2016 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East, 915 E. Washington St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 United States

Representatives of Consulting for Statistics, Computing and Analytics Research (CSCAR) and the U-M Library (UML) will give an overview of services that are now available to support data-intensive research on…

April 2017

MIDAS Working Group on NSF solicitation for Big Data Spokes

April 24, 2017 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location: MIDAS – SPH I, Suite 7625, 1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029 United States

This working group is organized by MIDAS to respond to the NSF Big Data Spokes funding solicitation (BD Spokes).   Agenda: A brief presentation about the funding opportunity and the…

August 2017

2017 Single-Cell Genomic Data Analytics Symposium

August 10, 2017 @ 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Location: Palmer Commons, Great Lakes Central Room, 100 Washtenaw Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI United States

Please join us for the Single-cell Genomic Data Analytics Symposium. The day long symposium will highlight U-M researchers whose work is on the leading edge of innovation and discovery. This…

November 2017

Info Session: Consulting and computing resources for data science

November 8, 2017 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Rackham Building, West Conference Room, Fourth Floor, 915 E. Washington St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 United States

Advanced Research Computing at U-M (ARC) will host an information session for graduate students in all disciplines who are interested in new computing and data science resources and services available…

MIDAS Working Group: Teaching Data Science

November 27, 2017 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Location: Weiser Hall, MIDAS, Suite 600, 500 Church Street, Suite 600
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1042 United States

Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) is convening a working group on teaching data science. As we incorporate data science into almost every level of teaching, many issues need to…

December 2017

2017 U-M Data Science Research Forum

December 1, 2017 @ 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Location: Michigan League, 911 N. University
Ann Arbor, MI 48104 United States

Forum Highlights Oral and poster presentations on Theoretical foundations of data science Data science methodology Data science applications in any research domain Social impact of data science research How to…

January 2018

Regular Expressions II

January 19, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Regular expressions are perfectly suited for people who like puzzles. Regular expressions are a sequence of characters used to define a search pattern. They are commonly used to do “find”…

Android Application Development: Why and How

January 23, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Location: Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East, 915 E. Washington St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 United States

Mobile app development is one of the biggest new industries of the last decade. As of 2017, Google has stated that over 2 billion devices around the world use the…