Data Science Summer Hangouts
Each summer, DDDI hosts a data science workshop for undergraduates involved in research. Penn faculty members from both the natural and social sciences present work that applies data science to their research. Undergraduates also attend tutorials led by our postdocs and graduate students on data science methods. This article by Omnia highlights some of the student experiences from the 2019 hangouts. Here are some themes we've explored in the past:
- 2025 - Machine learning, statistics, optimization, and generative AI for scientific discovery across fields.
- 2024 - Causal inference, machine learning, and generative AI for scientific discovery across fields.
- 2023 - A “choose your own adventure” through data science.
Hangouts will be held twice a week. A pizza lunch will be provided. All talks and tutorials will take place in the RDDSX space, conveniently located near the Collaborative Classroom in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library. Below you'll find our past hangouts with recordings.
Upcoming Summer Hangouts
Past Summer Hangouts
Summer Hangouts: Nancy Zhang, Gary Bernstein, and Kieran/Sam
Statistical Challenges in Single Cell Genomics, How tree structures helped us find the comets, and Intro to Machine Learning
Faculty Talks at Meyerson B1, Hangout at lounge outside Meyerson B1, Tutorials at Meyerson B13
Summer Hangouts: Hanming Fang, Duncan Watts, and Roland Neil
Money in Politics: Forensic Data Analysis of Political Action Committees, Measuring Bias and Misinformation in the News, and Data visualization
Faculty Talks at Meyerson B1, Hangout at lounge outside Meyerson B1, Tutorials at Meyerson B13
Summer Hangouts: Karen Chow and Colin Twomey
An unsupervised learning approach to music performance anxiety, A first look at linear regression
Faculty Talks at Meyerson B1, Hangout at lounge outside Meyerson B1, Tutorials at Meyerson B13
Summer Hangouts: Maria Cuellar, Bhuv Jain, and Alex Knorre
Forensic Toolmark Comparisons, How to compare universes: 'conventional' versus ML approaches, and Working with geo data and creating maps in R
Faculty Talks at Meyerson B1, Hangout at lounge outside Meyerson B1, Tutorials at Meyerson B13
Data Science Summer Hangouts Series 2022
Faculty Talks at Meyerson B1
Hangout at lounge outside Meyerson B1
Tutorials at Meyerson B13
Summer Hangouts: Josh Plotkin, Konrad Kording, and Alex Knorre
Quantitative analysis of cultural evolution, Quasiexperiments for data scientists, and Introduction to R
Faculty Talks at Meyerson B1, Hangout at lounge outside Meyerson B1, Tutorials at Meyerson B13