WiMLDS NYC: March 2023 Newsletter
Special Features
📣The Top 100+ Women Advancing AI in 2023
By RE•WORK | Globally Renowned AI Summits, Workshop & Dinners (re-work.co)
International Women’s Day is a global day dedicated to celebrating the achievements of women and also serves as a reminder of the need for women’s equality. Globally, only 22% of AI professionals are female and so RE•WORK, with the help of our community’s nominations, have decided to recognize over 100 of the amazing women who are advancing AI. Check out the list below!
Help us to continue highlighting leading women in AI by nominating your influential woman in AI. Submit your entry here.
📰 Read More ➡️ The Top 100+ Women Advancing AI in 2023 (re-work.co)
Chief | DEI Is a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry That Doesn’t Work. Here’s How to Change It
Here’s why your efforts to extract value from data are going nowhere
My favorite way of explaining the difference between data science and data engineering is this:
If data science is “making data useful,” then data engineering is “making data usable.”
These disciplines are so exciting that it’s easy to get ahead of ourselves and forget that before we can make data usable (let alone useful), we need to make data in the first place.
📰 Read More ➡️ Here’s why your efforts to extract value from data are going nowhere | by Cassie Kozyrkov | Feb, 2023 | Towards Data Science
DEI Is a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry That Doesn’t Work. Here’s How to Change It
By Alice Gomstyn on Chief
“DEI doesn’t work and that’s a problem,” says Lily Zheng, a leading DEI strategist and author of the book DEI Deconstructed. “We can’t have a multi-billion dollar industry that doesn’t work.”
In a Chief-exclusive workshop with Chief Vice President of Inclusion & Impact, Trey Boynton, Zheng shared their perspective on why past DEI efforts have been unsuccessful and provided advice on how to move beyond performative DEI. Where many DEI programs go wrong is that they focus on events with inspirational speakers that “create a burst of impact” but don’t yield long-term results.
“You spend some money, you get people excited, and then a year later, you’re at the same place,” Zheng says.
Achieving real results takes less glamorous, flashy work, according to Zheng. It’s about establishing what outcomes a company is striving for and gauging progress toward those outcomes.
“It’s a boring answer to a really challenging problem — which is, we just measure it. We hold people accountable to outcomes and not intentions,” Zheng says. “We have, like, 50, 60, 70 years of intentions in DEI not resulting in impact. Something has to change.”
📰 Read More ➡️ Chief | DEI Is a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry That Doesn’t Work. Here’s How to Change It
Inspiration Corner
Women’s History Month Spotlight: Chien-Shiung Wu, the “First Lady of Physics”
Also known as the “First Lady of Physics,” Wu was a particle and experimental physicist. She was the first female president of the American Physical Society, the first person awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics, and the first honorary doctorate awarded by Princeton University to a woman. Learn more about her incredible life and career here.
Note: This content was copied from “Girls Who Code” March 13, 2023 Newsletter.
External Events
Generative Modeling for Time Series via Schrödinger Bridge by The Artificial Intelligence for Good Group
Date and Time: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 12:00 PM to Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 1:00 PM EDT
Details
“A talk by Professor Huyên Pham, University of Paris (Paris Diderot), Laboratoire de Probabilités, Statistique et Modèlisation (LPSM), Adjunct Professor- ENSAE, Chair of Applied Mathematics, JVN HCM, Vietnam. Professor Pham received the Louis Bachelier prize (2007) of the Natixis foundation and SMAI awarded by the French Academy of Sciences. He is Editor-in-Chief of Applied Mathematics and Optimization (with I. Lasiecka) and on the Editorial Boards of SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Mathematical Finance, Risks, Probability, Uncertainty and Quantitative Risk, Acta Mathematica Vietnamica, and Finance and Stochastics.”
ODSC East 2023 | Data Science Training Conference
Date and Time: Tuesday, May 9, 2023 at 9:00 AM to Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 5:00 PM EDT
“This is PAID event.
More info you may find here — https://hubs.li/Q01nwjvl0
Use COMMUNITY2023 code for an extra discount.
Virtual tickets — https://hubs.li/Q01xMs7_0
In-person tickets — https://hubs.li/Q01xMsd60
Speakers like Pedro Domingos, PhD, Raluca Ada Popa, PhD, Dr. Jon Krohn, Tamilla Triantoro, PhD, Ariel Procaccia, PhD, Dan Roth, PhD, Stefanie Molin, Aric LaBarr, PhD, Dr. Hongxia Yang, PhD and more — are waiting for you!
Preliminary schedule is available here — https://hubs.li/Q01BQCWL0
Confirmed session titles include:
- NLP Fundamentals
- Deep Learning with PyTorch and TensorFlow
- Synthetic Data in Healthcare: Methods, Challenges, and Use Cases
- Improving ML Datasets with Cleanlab, a Standard Framework for Data-Centric AI
- Modern NLP: Pre-training, Fine-tuning, Prompt Engineering, and Human Feedback
- Introduction to AutoML: Hyperparameter Optimization and Neural Architecture Search
- Hyper-productive NLP with Hugging Face Transformers
- Beyond the Basics: Data Visualization in Python
- Introduction to Large-scale Analytics with PySpark
- A Practical Tutorial on Building Machine Learning Demos with Gradio
- Improving ML Datasets with Cleanlab, a Standard Framework for Data-Centric AI
We’ll be adding more titles soon, so be sure to check back often.
At ODSC East you’ll find an unprecedented breadth and depth of data science topics, tools, languages, frameworks, and platforms, making it the can’t-miss conference for data scientists and AI professionals of all levels, beginner to advanced.”
Conferences
- NLP Summit Healthcare — Virtual, April 4–5 (Free)
- RE.WORK AI in Finance Summit New York 2023 — New York, NY, April 20–21
- CDO & Data Leaders’ Global Summit 2023 — Virtual, May 3–4
