WiMLDS NYC: January 2022 Newsletter
Special Announcement
Reminder: We plan to publish a quarterly Q&A with a chapter member who would like to be featured on our new blog. If (a) you have just completed a certificate/degree or (b) you are seeking a career or job change, this platform may be a great way to publicize your accomplishments and goals.
Please reach out to us at nyc@wimlds.org if you are interested in being featured in a publication.
2021 Year in Review: Read More on LinkedIn… and do not hesitate to connect with us at nyc@wimlds.org if you have ideas on how we may support your career development this year!
Recent WiMLDS Event
A big thank you to our sponsors, recruiters, coaches, volunteers and members who made this personal branding event a success!
We have published a Medium blog to summarize what we learned throughout the hour.
WiMLDS Event
Our Paris & Dakar sister chapters are joining forces virtually on February 8th from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM EST.
Inspiration Corner
Cassie Kozyrkov is the Chief Decision Scientist at Google and serves as a thought leader to guide Google and the world in making the safe, effective use of AI and data. She has academic degrees in Economics, Mathematical Statistics, and Psychology & Neuroscience.
Cassie has trained 20K “Googlers” in statistics, decision-making and machine learning. Her teaching history includes “Making Friends with Machine Learning” which was posted on YouTube for public access last year. “The course is designed to give everyone — no matter your role — the tools you need for effective participation in machine learning for solving business problems and for being a good citizen in an increasingly AI-fueled world.”
While you’re at it, check out her January 7th post about New Year’s resolutions entitled “How to hack your motivation, according to a decision scientist”.
External Events
Webinar: “Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in STEM via Open Data Science (ODSC) NY
Panelists: Sierra King, Director of Admissions and Program Services at The Data Incubator, Matt Chan, Data Scientist for Big Data at Comcast, Dr. Andrew Graczyk, Senior Data Scientist at NNData, & Marcos Huerta, PhD, Data Science Manager at CarMax
Date and Time: Wednesday, February 2, 2022 at 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
“Everyone has it, no one thinks others have it and it seems like no one talks about it. What is it? Imposter syndrome.
TDI is committed to teaching the skills data professionals need to excel in their field, but that doesn’t end with just the technical skills. TDI teaches students how to have confidence in all that they do and helps them gain the personal tools to combat things like imposter syndrome.
Join the webinar with an all-star group of panelists to talk about what imposter syndrome means, how to overcome the self-doubt it brings and how our very own brightest alumni have dealt with it themselves.”
Webinar: “Medical Imaging with Azure Machine Learning” via Open Data Science (ODSC) NY
Speakers: Andreas Kopp, Solution Architect DS&AI at Microsoft, Harmke Alkemade, Cloud Solution Architect DS&AI at Microsoft, & Ivan Tarapov, Principal Group Manager — Medical Imaging AI at Microsoft
Date and Time: Wednesday, February 8, 2022 at 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM EST
“The purpose of this session is to demonstrate how Azure Machine Learning can be used to support medical imaging and other use cases in areas like data and model management, deployment, experiment tracking and explainability. Our demo repository covers various data science approaches ranging from manual model development with PyTorch to automated machine learning for images and these approaches will be demonstrated in this session.”
[PAID Event]: Webscraping & Social Media Mining For Text Analysis & Natural Language Processing via Open Data Science (ODSC) NY
Instructor: Minerva Singh, PhD, Spatial Data Analysis Expert, Founder at Minerva’s Data Lab
Date and Time: Wednesday, February 24, 2022 at 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM EST
- “Are you interested in harnessing the power of data for informing business decisions?
- Do you want to make data-driven financial decisions?
- Do you want to develop cutting-edge analytics and visualizations to support business decisions?
- Are you interested in deploying predictive modeling and forecasting methods to get an edge over the competition?
You Can Gain An Edge Over Other Data Scientists If You Can Apply Python Data Analysis Skills For Practical Business Intelligence (BI) by enhancing the value of your company or business through the extraction of actionable insights from commonly used business data.
Stand out from a pool of other data analysts by gaining proficiency in the most important pillars of BI applications”
Conferences
- Data Science Salon Virtual: February 16–17, 2022
- Deep Learning Summit: February 17–18, 2022
- Ai4 Healthcare Summit: February 23–24, 2022
- Ai4 Finance Summit — March 1, 2022
