Data in Public Policy

01/09/2017

Our friends at the Center for Data Science & Public Policy are starting a Data Science Happy Hour to get people across campus together who’re working in different areas using data and computational methods. There are no talks and seminars for now - just good people mingling, snacks and drinks.

The first in the series is this Thursday (Jan 12) at 4pm in the Computation Institute (Searle 240).

Everyone from the U Chicago community is welcome -- RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-science-happy-hour-tickets-31036465905

Hope to see you there!!

Data Science Happy Hour

10/10/2016

We had a great discussion today with Abhi Nemani to kick off our lunch talk series! Thanks to all who joined, especially everyone who asked such thoughtful and engaging questions. In case you missed it, the slides are posted here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5pU6oaE8rIhcnBNRXRXc3NNVmc/view?usp=sharing

Abhi has generously agreed to share his contact info. If you would like to follow up with him about anything, ask Lauren Dyson for his email.

Stay tuned for more lunch talks coming up soon! If you have ideas for folks we should invite to speak, please share them here.

01/14/2016

Yahoo have just released a 13.5TB dataset of user-news interactions. Useful resource for anyone interested in machine learning at scale or how a broad population of users interacts with various news stories.

By Suju Rajan Data is the lifeblood of research in machine learning. However, access to truly large-scale datasets is a privilege that has been traditionally reserved for machine learning researchers and data scientists working at large companies – and out of reach for most academic researchers. Res…