What we’re about
This is a Statistical and Data Science user group for the Connecticut River Valley and Five College Area.
We were founded in January 2013 originally as an R users group. However, we have become more of an all-purpose Statistics and Data Science meetup group, hosting and cross-listing public talks and events related to these fields.
The goal of this meetup is to provide a central repository/bulletin board for many events data-science/statistics related that are occurring in Western Mass, and specifically the Pioneer Valley. We post or cross-list events/workshops/lectures from area academic departments that relate to Data Science and Statistics. We also create and host events of our own. If you know of a relevant event that we haven't listed but you think we should, we encourage you to post it directly. Also, if you have an idea for a workshop or would like to host/give a talk or workshop, please let us know.
Upcoming events (2)
See all- AI for Nature: From Science to Impact (Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf)Amherst College Science Center E110, Amherst, MA
We have a special event on Monday 4/28 at 4:00pm: the launch event of the Amherst College Data Science Initiative!
We hope you can join us for it, and also share the word about it with your faculty, students, and staff colleagues: the DSI is a campus-wide tent, open to everyone!
Note that this event is on Monday, not the usual Tuesday.
Speaker: Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf (The Ohio State U., CS & Ecology)
Title: AI for Nature: From Science to Impact
Abstract:
Computation has fundamentally changed the way we study nature. We are in the middle of the 6th mass extinction, losing the planet's biodiversity at an unprecedented rate and scale. In many cases, we do not even have the basic numbers of what species we are losing, which impacts our ability to understand biodiversity loss drivers, predict the impact on ecosystems, and implement policy.
Yet, our ability to extract insight from these data lags substantially behind our ability to collect it. The talk will discuss how AI can turn these data into high-resolution information sources, looking at both opportunities and disadvantages.Speaker Bio:
Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf is a Professor of Computer Science Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at the Ohio State University, where she is also the Director of the Translational Data Analytics Institute. She is leading the US National Science Foundation funded Imageomics Institute and the US-Canada funded AI and Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Center.Refreshments will be served before the talk.
Time and Location:
Monday 4/28, 4:00pm
Amherst College SCCE E110 Lipton Lecture Hall, 25 East Drive, Amherst, MALink to calendar file: https://www.amherst.edu/mm_calendar_ical/927862/event.ics
