Athina Hadjixenofontos | The Center for Computational Science

2-Day Software Carpentry “R” Workshop 10/11-12/2018 Medical Campus

Registration Closed | Please Read Instructions Topics covered in this Workshop: The Unix shell Version control with git Programming with R Since the goal of this workshop is to bring you up to speed with data analysis, it would be incomplete without instruction on a shell as well as a version control system. The shell is important in building reproducible data analysis pipelines where your R scripts may be just one component, Git is...

Athina Hadjixenofontos to Address UBMS High-School Students 7/5/18

Science can be a powerful pathway to prosperity, yet under-resourced students often miss out on both a focused curriculum in school, and science role models in their lives. The award-winning* Frost Science Upward Bound Math and Science program (UBMS), funded by the U.S. Department of Education, tackles this issue by recruiting top-notch students from Title 1 schools in the Miami area, and enrolling them in a four-year, after-school,...

Join us for the CCS Fellows Spring Symposium 4/26/2018

The vision of the Center for Computational Science’s “CCS Fellows Program” is to inspire a new generation of leaders in computational science to cross the traditional boundaries between disciplines, by equipping them with new cross-disciplinary skills and experience. The Program does this by offering mentorship outside the students’ area of expertise. “CCS Fellow” is a prestigious designation awarded to two undergraduate students and...

Lunch & Learn: How to Build a Data Analysis Pipeline 3/19/2018

Monday, March 19, 2018 | 12:00-1:00 PM McArthur Engineering Annex, MEA 202 Speaker: Athina Hadjixenofontos, PhD | CCS Director of Engagement In this session, we will examine the opportunities for decision making while building a data analysis pipeline and follow the consequences of those decisions for the interpretability of the results. In addition, we will dive into examples of various types of bias, as well as examples of...

Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference 3/5/2018

The Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference aims to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, regardless of gender, and support women in the field. This annual Conference is held at Stanford University and 100+ locations worldwide, hosted by WiDSAmbassadors. This one-day technical Conference provides an opportunity to hear about the latest data science-related research in a number of domains, learn how leading-edge...