Data Science For Scientists ATL

For our first meeting of the year we were joined by Melinda Higgins, senior biostatistician and associate research professor in Nursing at Emory.She gave the group an overview of the principles of reproducible research, including some very interesting background that provided examples of why it is important. We can …

Continuing our streak of R-based meetings, this month we learned about scraping the web in R.
Our guest speaker was Steve Pittard, a lecturer in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory, among other things. Steve helpfully shared a manuscript he's put together in Bookdown that walks us through the lessons he's …

For this meeting, our first as a group since being chartered by Laney Graduate School(!), Desiree DeLeon (Sanchez + Young labs) gave us a hands-on tutorial about what pseudoreplication is and how to avoid it.
Check out her presentation here:
https://github.com/Data-Science-for-Scientists-ATL/Pseudoreplication
Desiree also shared an excellent RMarkdown …

For this meeting, Christian McDaniel and Andrew Durden from Shannon Quinn's group at UGA made the hike over to the ATL to talk with us about the projects they presented at SciPy 2018.

"Developing an LSTM Pipeline for Accelerometer Data." Christian McDaniel

Christian gave us the low-down on the pipeline …

For our meeting on the 28th of August, one of our founding members, Varun Saravanan, shared his Kaggle experience with us. I'll summarize his presentation here.

What is Kaggle?

Kaggle is a website that hosts data science competition hosting. There are three major categories of competitions that they host:

• Learning …

Yesterday our group got a very cool #dataviz tutorial from Trent Ryan, a graduate student advised by Timothy Dowd in Sociology at Emory. Trent walked us through using the Leaflet library, for making interactive maps, together with the R package tidycensus that provides easy access to United States census data …

At our last meeting, I gave a demo of how to make websites about what you're up to in data science. My demo followed the method used by astrophysicist and data scientist extraordinaire Jake Vanderplas. As he describes in a blog post, he now generates his site with the Python …

I'm in academia, what do I need to know about data science in industry?

Early this summer, Laney’s budding Data Science for Scientists organization held a meeting to give Ph.D. students tips on getting hired for a Data Science position. In a presentation led by Jeff Kolve, senior …