Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

ML+Coffee
2024-11-06 09:00 - 11:00, 2024-12-11 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Chicago) | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
Machine Learning Community Event.
CONTACT: endemann@wisc.edu

Data Science Hub Fall 2024 Mini-workshop series
2024-11-20 09:00 - 13:00
A series of 4 computational workshops on various topics

Trustworthy AI
2024-12-02 09:00 - 13:00
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2024-12-02-uwmadison-trustworthyai/

This lesson equips participants with trustworthy AI/ML practices, emphasizing fairness, explainability, reproducibility, accountability, and safety across three general data/model modalities: structured data (tabular), natural language processing (NLP), and computer vision. Participants will learn to evaluate and enhance the trustworthiness and reliability of models in each modality. Additionally, they will explore how to integrate these principles into future models, bridging ethical practices with practical applications in their research.
This is a pilot workshop, testing out a lesson that is still under development. The lesson authors would appreciate any feedback you can give them about the lesson content and suggestions for how it could be further improved.
Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers at UW Madison. Participants must have experience using Python and a basic understanding of machine learning (e.g., familiar with the concepts like train/test split and cross-validation) and should have trained at least one model in the past. Prior experience training neural networks is recommended to get the most out of this workshop.
Where: This training will take place online. The instructors will provide you with the information you will need to connect to this meeting.
When: Dec 2-4, 2024; 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Add to your Google Calendar.

Trustworthy AI
2024-12-03 09:00 - 13:00, 2024-12-04 09:00 - 13:00
Learn Responsible Machine Learning Practices.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2024-12-02-uwmadison-trustworthyai/

ML+X Forum: Applied Machine Learning
2024-12-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
Machine Learning Beyond Traditional CS Fields.
CONTACT: endemann@wisc.edu
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92639425571?pwd=[REDACTED]

Software Carpentry
2025-01-13 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-01-14 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-01-15 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-01-16 09:00 - 13:00
Learn Skills for Research Software Engineering. Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-01-13-uwmadison-swc/

Software Carpentry
2025-01-13 09:00 - 2025-01-16 13:00
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-01-13-uwmadison-swc/

Health Sciences Data Carpentry
2025-01-21 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-01-22 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-01-23 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-01-24 09:00 - 13:00 | 3330 Health Sciences Learning Center
Fundamental Data Skills Workshop. Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners’ existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-01-21-uwmadison-dc/

Research Cyberinfrastructure Community of Practice meeting (FREE and Online)
2025-01-23 13:00 - 14:00 | (Online)
Learn about tools and services to support campus research.. Researchers and IT/support staff are invited to participate in this monthly community of practice, which features presentations and support related to campus research tools/services.
This month: RCI Tools & Services Overview –
Learn about tools available through the Research Cyberinfrastructure, including ResearchDrive, Research Object Storage (S3), Electronic Lab Notebook, Globus, Data Science Platform, and cloud computing.
RCI staff available for consultations during this session!
CONTACT: rci@g-groups.wisc.edu
URL: https://go.wisc.edu/rci
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/98069906780?pwd=[REDACTED]

ComBEE Monthly Meeting
2025-01-28 15:00 - 16:00 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
Decoding Proteins: Exploring Transformers, AlphaFold, and Hands-On with ColabFold. Join us for an engaging COMBEE talk exploring the fascinating world of protein language models, transformers, and the revolutionary advancements of AlphaFold, presented by Dr. Hannah Wayment-Steele
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu

Research Bazaar
2025-03-19 09:00 - 16:30, 2025-03-20 09:00 - 16:30 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
Data Science Research Bazaar: AI and ML in Research: Navigating Opportunities and Boundaries. Save the date for the the 6th annual Data Science Research Bazaar, March 19-20, 2025 at the Discovery Building. This year’s theme is AI and ML in Research: Navigating Opportunities and Boundaries.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://bazaar.datascience.wisc.edu/

Intermediate Research Software Development with Python
2025-03-24 09:00 - 2025-03-27 13:00 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-03-24-uwmadison-intermedpython/

Intermediate Research Software Development with Python aims to teach a core set of established, intermediate-level software development skills and best practices for working as part of a team in a research environment using Python as an example programming language (see detailed learning objectives). The core set of skills we teach is not a comprehensive set of all-encompassing skills, but a selective set of tried-and-tested collaborative development skills that forms a firm foundation for continuing on your learning journey.

Health Sciences Data Carpentry
2025-03-24 13:00 - 17:00 | Health Sciences Learning Center, Room 1248, 750 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI, 53792, United States
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-03-24-uwmadison-dc/

Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners’ existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

Text Analysis in Python
2025-04-28 09:00 - 12:30
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-04-28-uwmadison-textanalysis/

Intro to Deep Learning with Keras
2025-05-19 09:00 - 12:30 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-05-19-uwmadison-DeepLearningKeras/

REU / Undergrad Only - Data Carpentry
2025-06-02 09:00 - 12:30 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-06-02-uwmadison-reudc/

Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners’ existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

Geospatial Data Carpentry Workshop
2025-06-02 13:00 - 17:00 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-06-02-uwmadison-dc-geospatial/

The goal of this workshop is to provide an introduction to core geospatial data concepts and dive into working with raster/vector data, including how to open, work with, and plot vector and raster-format spatial data in R. Additional topics include working with spatial metadata (extent and coordinate reference systems), reprojecting spatial data, and working with raster time series data. This lesson assumes you have some knowledge of R. If you’ve never used R before, or need a refresher, start with our Introduction to R for Geospatial Data lesson webpage.

REU / Undergrad Only - Software Carpentry
2025-06-09 09:00 - 16:30 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-06-09-uwmadison-reuswc/

Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

Introduction to Machine Learning
2025-07-30 09:00 - 14:00 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-07-30-uwmadison-IntrotoML/

Genomics Data Carpentry
2025-08-04 09:00 - 2025-08-12 13:00
Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research.

Reproducible Software
2025-08-25 09:00 - 2025-08-28 12:30 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-08-25-uwmadison-ReproducibleSoftware/
