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Introduction to Spatial Analysis with Python

This session will introduce you to spatial analysis in Python. As this session is oriented towards beginners, the focus of the session will be on basic concepts, choropleth maps, and simple geographic location analyses. This should serve as an entry … Read more

Personal Health Informatics

This session is intended to introduce those with limited background in Python to the field of Personal Health Informatics. We will be discussing what this field entails and then diving deeper into the data collection and processing of accelerometer datasets … Read more

Natural Language Processing

Come to this introductory session where we will be exploring basic natural language processing concepts and approaches. This workshop will cover sentiment analysis and topic modeling, and hopefully by the end of this workshop you will have a working knowledge … Read more

In-Depth Machine Learning – Recommender Systems

This week we will be exploring some Recommender Systems built with Python. For this session, we will discuss a variety of common approaches to recommendation algorithms as well as their strengths and weaknesses. We will also run through two examples … Read more

Deep Learning – Text Analysis

This session will be introductory with a focus on applying Tensor Flow, in Keras, to conduct basic analyses with text data. Fundamental deep learning concepts will be learned, code will be explored, and techniques will be directly applied! Please feel … Read more

Computer Vision

This week we will be continuing our conversations around deep learning, but we will be applying concepts in a different context; Computer Vision and Image Classification. We will build a couple of neural networks, utilizing TensorFlow and Keras, to identify … Read more

Bracketology

Get HYPE for March Madness! Come join us for our first in-person event of the semester where we'll be diving into the analytics behind college basketball. We'll introduce our ESPN bracket challenge for the chance to win gift cards!

Web Scraping for Final Four: UNC vs Duke

Join us this week for a web scraping session. We’ll be going over the basics of how to scrape data from the web using Python and R. The overarching example will be focused on pulling sports data on past UNC … Read more