The Data Science Seminar series is a university-wide effort bringing together thought-leading speakers and researchers across campus to discuss topics related to data analysis, visualization and applications to domain sciences.
Organized by the eScience Institute, iSchool DataLab, and CSE Interactive Data Lab, the series includes:
Spring 2014 Speakers
April 16
People, Data and Analysis
Pat Hanrahan, Professor, Stanford University & Co-Founder, Tableau Software
April 23
Machine Learning and Econometrics
Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google
May 21
What Academia Can Learn From Open Source
Arfon Smith, Scientist, GitHub & Co-Founder, Zooniverse
Fall 2014 Speakers
Date and topic to be announced
Jon Kleinberg, Professor, Cornell University
Date and topic to be announced
Jure Leskovec, Professor, Stanford University
Date and topic to be announced
Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viégas, Directors of the "Big Picture" Visualization Group, Google
The series is supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research.