Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Indigenous Language Table
2024-01-24 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-01-31 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-02-07 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-02-14 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-02-21 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-02-28 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-03-06 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-03-13 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago) and 8 more dates | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, De Luca Forum, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
Open Language Table for Indigenous Languages. Most Wednesdays on the first floor of the Discovery Building and hosted by the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery ID Hub in Room 1145. An Indigenous Language Table is designed to enable language learners to develop spoken language skills outside of the classroom setting, build community, strengthen language purpose, and normalize indigenous language with representation. All learners are welcome to attend!
CONTACT: lredeagle@wisc.edu
URL: https://illuminatingdiscovery.wisc.edu/indigenous-language-table/

EVIL Reading Group
2024-01-26 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-02-16 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-03-08 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-03-29 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-04-19 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-05-10 12:00 - 13:00 | (Online)
The Ethics, Values, Information, and Law (EVIL) reading group pursues scholarship in the intersections of ethics, law, and data and information technologies. The EVIL Reading group meets every three weeks (roughly), Fridays, online, and is hosted in collaboration with the iSchool and ML+X.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://go.wisc.edu/7319a8
ONLINE: https://go.wisc.edu/7319a8

WID Seminar Series
2024-01-30 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-02-22 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-03-26 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-30 14:00 - 15:00 | Orchard View Room 3280, Discovery Building
Resilience, Robustness and Adaptability. Wisconsin Institute for Discovery's second year exploring resilience, robustness and adaptability in complex systems through faculty and guest seminars.

Crossroads of Ideas:
2024-02-29 19:00 - 20:00 | H.F. DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building
URL: https://illuminatingdiscovery.wisc.edu/crossroads-of-ideas/

Text Analysis Workshop
2024-03-26 09:00 - 12:30, 2024-03-27 09:00 - 12:30, 2024-03-28 09:00 - 12:30
Practical Introduction to Text Analysis using Python. Join this recently developed Carpentries workshop for a practical Introduction to Text Analysis, designed for those with Python experience (how to create functions, for loops, conditional logic, use the pandas library, etc.). The workshop covers Natural Language Processing (NLP) basics, API usage, data preparation, document/word embeddings, topic modeling, Word2Vec, Transformer models using Hugging Face, and ethical considerations.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2024-03-26-uwmadison-textanalysis/
