[Learn-data-science] Data Science Colloquium

[David Livermore]

Hello all,


In a previous email I stated that Mirko Vorabbi would be giving a talk on data science today, unfortunately this is not the case.  Mirko Miorelli will be giving a talk today at 2 PM, but not on data science.  Mirko does work currently in data science and has offered to give a talk on data science in the future, but not today.


As some of you heard on the all-hands meeting on Aug 31, the hiring of data scientist is nearly complete, but that they likely won't start for a month, which is a bit longer than I had anticipated.  In light of this, I* was thinking we could pick of of the many free online courses in data science/machine learning and we can collectively take the course together, and perhaps take turns teaching a lesson every other week.  A few examples of such courses are:


Here is a free online course that follows the graduate-level machine learning course and Columbia University (it follows roughly the same curriculum as the machine learning course at McGill).

https://www.edx.org/course/machine-learning-columbiax-csmm-102x-3


Here is another example, Kaggle.  Kaggle is a website that has free lessons and tutorials on data science and related topics, as well as a large variety of competitions, including the AtlasML competition.

<https://www.kaggle.com/learn/machine-learning>https://www.kaggle.com/learn/machine-learning


If you are interested in choosing one or more of these online classes and taking turns teaching lessons about machine learning, let me know.


*I think it was actually Nir that suggested this to me a few weeks ago.


Sorry for the last-minute confusion.


Cheers,

David Livermore
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