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Past Event
Data Science Nights - May 2021 Meeting (Speaker: Brian Martin, Abbvie)
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
5:15 PM
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APRIL MEETING: Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 5:30pm (US Central) via Zoom and Gather
DATA SCIENCE NIGHTS are monthly hack nights on popular data science topics, organized by Northwestern University graduate students and scholars. Aspiring, beginning, and advanced data scientists are welcome!
AGENDA:
5:15: Welcome to Data Science Nights via Zoom
* Zoom Link: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/92894494791
5:30: Presentation by Brian Martin, Abbvie
6:00: Hacking session via Gather
* Gather link: https://gather.town/app/UCTJAHOgQi2FLx4O/DSN
SPEAKER: Brian Martin, Research Fellow, Head of AI in R&D Information Research, Abbvie
TOPIC: Knowledge is Power, Data is Oil, Convergence is an Engine
We are living in a world driven by the combustion of data, powering a technology enabled acceleration of just about every facet of our lives. If we want to live lives empowered by this potential and not find ourselves choking on digital exhaust, we need to understand how to harness this energy. Understanding the process of refining light sweet crude data through context and understanding into knowledge requires an understanding the engine you’re feeding. In this talk we will consider the difference that convergence makes – taking into account what we know together versus what together we know – and how that helps us build an engine for progress. Ultimately, we will also come to an understanding of the great responsibility that is required of anyone driving forward on a knowledge powered journey.
ADDITIONAL HACKING SESSION INFO
For anyone interested in building and analyzing networks, Jenny Liu will be at the "hack" sessions with code related to networks. The goal will be to go through some basic exercises from a book, then move onto reproducing the results of some papers.
For more info: data-science-nights.org
Supporting Groups:
This event is supported by the Northwestern Institute for Complex Systems and the Northwestern Data Science Initiative.
Time
Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 5:15 PM - 7:30 PM
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Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
WED@NICO Fall Seminar Series returns on Sept 24th!
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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The Wednesdays @ NICO Fall Seminar Series returns on September 24th and will run through November 12th, 2025. Please visit our web site in early September for detailed speaker information, talk titles and abstracts.
This fall, we are honored to host the following distinguished speakers:
9/24 - Emma Alexander, Dept of Computer Science, Northwestern University
10/1 - Sebastien Martin, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
10/8 - Tomer Ullman, Dept of Psychology, Harvard University
10/15 - Patrick Park, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
10/22 - Max Kreminski, Midjourney
10/29 - Elizabeth Gerber, Mechanical Engineering and Communication Studies, Northwestern University
11/5 - Julio Ottino, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University
11/12 - Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Google Research
Location:
In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option: TBA via Zoom
About the Speaker Series:
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems, data science and network science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between. Please visit: https://bit.ly/WedatNICO for information on future speakers.
Time
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)