WiMLDS NYC: September 2022 Newsletter
Special Announcements
📣Women in AI (WAI) recently published their WAI@WORK report “to learn from women working in AI how companies can change and create more diverse work culture.” The report covers content pertaining to attracting, choosing and keeping female talent.
RE•WORK’s Top 25 Women in AI: US Healthcare & Pharma Edition, which happens to include a NYC Chapter Co-organizer, was published on September 19th to feature influential women ahead of the AI in Healthcare Summit in Boston.
“Help us to continue highlighting leading women in AI by nominating your influential woman for our next edition. Submit your entry here.
RE•WORK holds Women in AI events, podcasts, and blogs. Get in touch if you’d like to collaborate or support our initiatives!”
Inspiration Corner
By Manya Wadhwa
Jay-Ann Lopez is the creator for Black Girl Gamers; a platform that aims to provide a community for Black women gamers. It provides the largest gaming safe space for Black women in the world, to advocate for diversity, inclusion, and equity in the gaming industry. Because of her initiatives, Jay-Ann has won several awards and has been invited to talk at various big technology companies to emphasis the need for improving gaming culture and how companies can be more inclusive. She is also the Co-Founder of Curlture, a platform that empowers women to embrace their natural beauty, culture and hair.
“Who are you celebrating this Women’s Equality Day? We want to know — tag us on social.”
New WiMLDS Chapter
Lina Bariah, Senior Researcher at Technology Innovation Institute, is the founder and organizer of the Abu Dhabi Chapter, which is also the first WiMLDS Chapter in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
WiMLDS Events
WiMLDS X CCAI: Machine learning for cloud formation in climate models via Seattle Women in Machine Learning and Data Science
Date and Time: Friday, September 30, 2022 at 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM PDT
Speaker: Yakelyn Ramos Jauregui
Speaker Bio: I am a graduate student in the department of Atmospheric Science at UW, graduating in the spring of 2023. My Ph.D. research seeks to improve understanding of the across-scales air-sea interaction processes over the tropical Pacific. More generally, I am interested in the physical mechanism by which consecutive short-term ocean-atmosphere interactions over the equatorial Pacific can trigger El Niño Southern Oscillation. As a graduate student, I work alongside a diverse range of scientists from different backgrounds, which provides me with valuable learning experiences. In our department’s mentoring program, I am committed to contributing to climate education, outreach efforts, and mental health awareness. Outside school, I am trying to reinforce the Latinx/Hispanic representation in Earth and Space Sciences through outreach, mentorship, and networking.
Introduction to Storytelling with Data via Boston Women in Machine Learning & Data Science
Date and Time: Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT
“How can we create effective data visualizations? In this introduction to storytelling with data, you will learn key guidelines and methods to create an effective data visualization. To start, you need to have a clear goal of what the data visualization is communicating and use good design principles to make it easy for the reader to understand. A communicative goal can come in different forms, such as a client brief, a learning objective, or data insights. A clear goal will help guide you towards the right type of visualization. Once you have a goal to aim for, you can use fundamental guidelines of what makes a good data visualization to help you design a visualization. Based on empirical research, the design guidelines of Decluttering and Focusing your visualization will guide your viewer into seeing the main conclusion quickly. With these key principles, we can create effective data visualizations to tell a story with data and engage your audience.
This event will be led by Elsie Lee-Robbins! Elsie is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Her background in Psychology is a foundation to understand the perceptual and cognitive processes of how people read data visualizations. Her research interests are data visualization, human-computer interaction, and decision making. Her academic research explores how to design effective communicative visualizations. She’s interested in how data visualization is used as a tool to communicate to a variety of audiences for a variety of goals.”
External Events
Webinar “Leveraging External Data to Create a Competitive Go-To-Market Strategy” via Open Data Science NY
Date and Time: Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
Speaker #1: Scott Taylor, The Data Whisperer at MetaMeta Consulting LLC
“Scott has helped countless companies by enlightening business executives to the strategic value of data management and leveraging external data. His experience comes from working for some of the most iconic data providers — Nielsen and Dun & Bradstreet. As Principal Consultant for MetaMeta Consulting, he now helps Enterprises and Tech Brands tell their data story. His book — TELLING YOUR DATA STORY: Data Storytelling for Data Management is available now.
Speaker #2: Iris Zarecki, Director, Product Marketing at Explorium
Iris brings a track record of delivering SaaS solutions in areas like AI/ML, Data and analytics and Cyber. Iris leads product marketing at Explorium, that empowers sales and marketing leaders to automatically discover relevant, impactful data signals, and use them to create powerful analytical solutions and disruptive go-to-market motions.
Abstract: External data can help organizations find a competitive edge through sales and marketing activities. By adding important context not found in internal data, you deepen your understanding of potential customers, get a more realistic estimate of your total addressable market (TAM), and improve KPIs across a number of sales and marketing activities.
Organizations need to update their Go-To-Market (GTM) strategies to include external data and data architectures need to evolve to better incorporate external data into data pipelines.
This webinar will cover:
- The evolution of external data
- New technologies that make external data more accessible
- How to modernize your GTM strategies to include external data”
Working Group on MultiModal Cell Integrations via Aggregate Intellect
Date and Time: Weekly at 7–8 PM ET on Wednesdays beginning on September 28, 2022
“We are coming together to participate in a Kaggle Competition, where we will build a model that infers gene to protein expression profiles in cells at various stages of development. This will help biomedical scientists and doctors providing services to patients with cell development issues — particularly doctors who are oncologists (who study cancer) or biologists who are looking to study cell development.”
AI in Linguistics: Potentials and Challenges by Women in AI — Engage USA
Date and Time: Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM EDT
“Women in AI USA Engage — is an inclusive series that focuses on a wide range of women from different age ranges, races, and backgrounds. It engages with them through a series of monthly events, such as invited talks, panel discussions, webinars, workshops, provided at no cost. #WaiEngageUSA also includes activities that allow women of AI to engage and connect through engagement forums, social media channels, interviews, blogs, and video hub collection.
Our expert panelists include:
- M ay Habib, CEO of Writer.com
- Anna K Lindegren, Data & AI Technical Specialist at IBM”
Conferences
- Black Women in Data Summit — Atlanta, Georgia & Virtual, October 1–2
- NLP Summit 2022 — FREE Online Event, October 4–6
- AI World Government Conference — Washington, DC & Virtual, October 6–7
- Reuters Momentum — Austin, Texas, October 11–12
- RE-WORK AI in Healthcare Summit — Boston, MA, October 13–14 Note: Please contact Ellie D. Norris or Melissa Barr for the WiMLDS Discount Code!
- Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) — November 28 Note: This event is colocated with NeurIPS 2022.
