Events

  • Info Session: Data Services at U-M

    Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, 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 campus.  As part of the U-M Data Science Initiative, CSCAR and UML are expanding their scopes and adding capacity to support a wide range of […]

  • MIDAS Working Group on NSF solicitation for Big Data Spokes

    MIDAS - SPH I, Suite 7625 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI, 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 background of the regional BD Hubs (Midwest, Northeast, South and West) and existing Spokes Discussion of ideas of new Spokes and forming collaborative teams (within […]

  • 2017 U-M Data Science Research Forum

    Michigan League 911 N. University, Ann Arbor, MI, 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 engage industry workshop Adrian Fortino, Partner (Mercury Fund) Mike Psarouthakis, Director (U-M Venture Center) Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Associate Professor, U-M School of Information Mike Cafarella, Associate Professor, […]

  • Regular Expressions II

    Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001B

    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” and “find and replace” string operations. They are also used to validate strings like phone numbers, passwords, etc. in data entry. Regular expression capabilities can […]

    Android Application Development: Why and How

    Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, 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 Android operating system, alongside Apple’s 1 billion iOS mobile devices around the globe. The capabilities and adopted use of modern smartphones can provide an easy […]

  • Introduction to the campus Hadoop cluster

    East Hall B254 530 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    This course will cover 4 areas: Logging into the cluster How to upload your data How to run a job How to get your data from the cluster Prerequisites: Workshop participants should take the “Introduction to the Linux Command Line” workshop, and view the following videos: https://youtu.be/4Gfl0WuONMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcjSe0xCHbE Click here for more information on The Cavium […]

    Introduction to the campus Hadoop cluster

    East Hall B254 530 Church St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    This course will cover 4 areas: Logging into the cluster How to upload your data How to run a job How to get your data from the cluster Prerequisites: Workshop participants should take the “Introduction to the Linux Command Line” workshop, and view the following videos: https://youtu.be/4Gfl0WuONMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcjSe0xCHbE Click here for more information on The Cavium […]

  • Sliding into Slurm: An early look at U-M’s new high-performance computing environment

    Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001A

    This workshop will provide a brief overview of the the new HPC environment and is intended for current Flux and Armis users.  We will use the temporary Beta HPC cluster to demonstrate how jobs will be submitted and managed under the new Great Lakes, Armis2, and Lighthouse clusters available later this year. There are many […]

    Sliding into Slurm: An early look at U-M’s new high-performance computing environment

    Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001A

    This workshop will provide a brief overview of the the new HPC environment and is intended for current Flux and Armis users.  We will use the temporary Beta HPC cluster to demonstrate how jobs will be submitted and managed under the new Great Lakes, Armis2, and Lighthouse clusters available later this year. There are many […]

  • Introduction to Machine Learning

    Your Desktop

    OVERVIEW Machine learning is becoming an increasingly popular tool in several fields, including data science, medicine, engineering, and business. This workshop will cover basic concepts related to machine learning, including definitions of basic terms, sample applications, and methods for deciding whether your project is a good fit for machine learning. No prior knowledge or coding […]