Events

  • Introduction to SAS: Simple Inference Procedures

    Prerequisites: Participant should have some familiarity with introductory statistics and be able to load data into and perform basic data manipulations in SAS. In this one-day, six-hour workshop we will discuss the basics of using SAS for statistical inference and modeling. The workshop is held in a computer lab and will alternate between instructor presentations […]

    Regular Expressions

    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 […]

    Go for data processing Part 1

    Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    This is a two-session workshop on the use of Go for data processing.  Go is an open source language developed for general-purpose programming.  It is not more difficult to learn and use than a high-level scripting language like Python, but it is strongly typed, statically compiled, and provides native support for concurrency, leading to much […]

    Machine Learning in R

    In this workshop, we’ll first discuss core machine learning concepts such as: choosing loss functions and evaluation metrics; splitting the data into training, validation, and testing sets; and cross-validation patterns for tuning hyper-parameters. Next, we’ll apply these concepts to train models for identifying isolated letters from speech (https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/isolet). Specifically, we’ll apply the elastic net (a […]

    John Harlim

    POSTPONED – MICDE/AIM Seminar: John Harlim, Professor, Mathematics and Meteorology, Penn State University

    Bio: John Harlim is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences. Harlim received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics from the Universitas Padjadaran (Indonesia), a master’s from the University of Guelph in Applied Mathematics, and a PhD in Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation from the University of Maryland […]

    Go for data processing Part 2

    Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    This is a two-session workshop on the use of Go for data processing.  Go is an open source language developed for general-purpose programming.  It is not more difficult to learn and use than a high-level scripting language like Python, but it is strongly typed, statically compiled, and provides native support for concurrency, leading to much […]

    Introduction to Deep Neural Networks with Keras/TensorFlow

    Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are used as a machine learning method for both regression and classification problems. Keras is a high-level, Python interface running on top of multiple neural network libraries, including the popular library TensorFlow. In this workshop, participants will learn how to quickly use the Keras interface to perform nonlinear regression and classification […]

    Building software projects: CMake is more than a build tool

    Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    This workshop is a continuation of the previous workshop “Building software projects: use CMake to build the building plan”.  In this workshop, we will see that CMake is not just a fancy Makefile generator: it can help us to test, reuse, and distribute our software!  We will use CMake to build two interdependent multi-language projects, […]