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November 2019
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Ricardo Baeza-Yates – NTENT
Ricardo Baeza-Yates NTENT Bias in Search and Recommender Systems Abstract: In this presentation we cover most biases that affect search and recommender systems. They include biases on the data,…
Staff Data Scientist Meet-up
The staff data scientist network has started recently. This group of people deal with data in very diverse ways, and are at many different points in their careers. The group…
Research Computing on the Great Lakes Cluster
OVERVIEW This workshop will provide a brief overview of the components of the Great Lakes Cluster. The main body of the workshop will cover the resource manager and scheduler, creating…
December 2019
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Arthur Spirling – New York University
Arthur Spirling Deputy Director, Center for Data Science New York University Word Embeddings What works, what doesn’t, and how to tell the difference for applied research Abstract: We consider…
The Blessings of Multiple Causes
Seminar Title: “The Blessings of Multiple Causes” Presenter: Ms. Yixin Wang Seminar Abstract: Causal inference from observational data is a vital problem, but it comes with strong assumptions. Most methods…
Special NERS Seminar: Ryan McClarren—University of Notre Dame
Ryan McClarren Assistant Professor Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Notre Dame That's An Interesting Idea: Data-Driven Models, Compressed Sensing, and Other Outré Tools for Nuclear…
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Michigan Data Science Fellows: Arya Farahi and Qianying Lin
Arya Farahi: A Quest for the Dark Sector of the Universe: The Role of Galaxy Clusters in the Era of Precision Cosmology Abstract: Unexpected experimental discoveries constitute a significant force…
Intro to D3.js for data visualization
D3.js is a JavaScript library for producing dynamic, interactive data visualizations in web browsers. It makes use of the widely implemented SVG, HTML5, and CSS standards. We’ll explore how to…
Jian-Xun Wang: Data-driven Forward and Inverse Modeling of Fluid Dynamics with “Small Data”
Jian-Xun Wang Assistant Professor Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering University of Notre Dame Abstract Recent advances in data science techniques, combined with the ever-increasing availability of high-fidelity simulation/measurement data open up…
“Anonymous Autonomous” Work in Progress Community Demo
Anonymous Autonomous is a robotic art installation being developed by Katherine Behar, Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan, together with a team of U-M students. As the Fall 2019…
