Past Events
GIS Day: Finding Places in Text
GIS Day workshop: Demonstrates locating place names in a corpus, then geocoding for particular region and time period. Location: Goldestein Electronic Classroom (Room 114), Van Pelt Library Center. For more information, go to https://guides.library.upenn.edu/c.php?g=553812&p…
Data Science Lunch: Greg Ridgeway; Sam Dillavou
Model for predicting police officer features and rounds discharged in gun shootings; Friction: a short history and discussion about sparse, messy data
Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 615
3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
During the academic year, our postdoctoral fellows meet most Tuesdays from 12pm – 1:30pm for an informal lunch with a Penn faculty guest speaker.
R Penn Group
You know what’s better than learning how to use R? Learning how to use R with other people! Bring your research, dream up a mini project, or learn how to think critically about relevant data with your peers. The R Penn Group (RPG) presented by the Research Data & Digital…
Python for Humanists
This short workshop will introduce humanists to the programming language Python and the numerous possibilities for its use for research in the humanities. No prior programming experience required! Having attended this workshop, participants can expect to be able to: set up a…
Data Science Lunch: David Brainard; Kieran Murphy
Computational modeling of visual processing; How to locate data and applications of machine learning to do so
Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 615
3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
During the academic year, our postdoctoral fellows meet most Tuesdays from 12pm – 1:30pm for an informal lunch with a Penn faculty guest speaker.
PUG@Penn (Python Users Group)
PUG@Penn (Python Users Group) brings together members of the Penn community interested in or already working with the popular open-source programming language Python. This drop-in, informal, collaboratively-oriented group meets once per month to experiment and explore the many…
Data Science Lunch: Konrad Körding
Evaluating strength of establishing causality and scientific rigor in research
Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 615
3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
During the academic year, our postdoctoral fellows meet most Tuesdays from 12pm – 1:30pm for an informal lunch with a Penn faculty guest speaker.
Drop-in Digital Scholarship Lab
Don't know how to get started on a digital scholarship project? Having trouble choosing a tool, method, or library for a data visualization or digital exhibition? Just want some people to code or build with? Drop in to our Thursday open lab! Location: Van Pelt-Dietrich Library…
Data and Democracy Deficits in India Talk
Hosted by the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) in partnership with the South Asia Center, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC), and Data Driven Discovery Initiative About the seminar: Over the last few years, India has seen both a rapid…
Data Science Lunch: Eleni Katifori
Issues in interpreting and establishing significance in research findings
Amy Gutmann Hall, Room 615
3333 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
During the academic year, our postdoctoral fellows meet most Tuesdays from 12pm – 1:30pm for an informal lunch with a Penn faculty guest speaker.