Health Equity Datathon
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DataFest 2023 April 14-16- Registration now open!
What is the ASA DataFest? ASA DataFest is a data hackathon for undergraduate students, sponsored by the American Statistical Association and founded at UCLA, in 2011. A data analysis problem is presented in the form of a dataset and an associated challenge. Teams of students get a dataset on Friday afternoon and work on the problem until Sunday afternoon where they present their findings. After two days of intense data wrangling, analysis, and presentation design, each team is allowed a few minutes and no more than two slides to impress a panel of judges.
Exploring Tech Justice: The Just Data Lab
As part of the Advanced Data Science, we explored how technology can perpetuate existing structures of discrimination through its design and application. As a part of this exploration, we read Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin. As a person who may use data and algorithms to make decisions in the future it is important for me to understand how others experience these algorithims, and what should be done in light of the role technology.
Research Statistician vacancies at the Bureau of Labor Statistics
Multiple GS-12/13 Research Math Stat vacancies at the Bureau of Labor Statistics This is a cross-post from a recent Project-DAFANH “Ask me anything” career speaker. Do you enjoy conducting statistical or survey methodological research? Would you like to join a group of researchers and be on the forefront of developing novel statistical methodologies that directly impact federal economic indicators? Does a federal job that emphasizes work-life balance and is committed to your professional development sound right for you?
Fooling Facial Recognition
A Brief Introduction To Adversarial Networks Most people have seen deep fakes and AI generated images online but people often don’t know the underlying technology behind it. For my senior Capstone, I am conducting a research project which uses Adversarial Networks and found this to be a very cool realm of machine learning. The basic design of a Adversarial system include two different networks, the generator and the discriminator. The Generator will simply take in a random seed as an input and use that number to calculate pixel values.
September Student post: Introduction to SQL
This is a quick-and-dirty introduction that will explain what SQL is, how it is used, and what some SQL queries look like in R using the dplyr package. SQL (sometimes pronounced “sequel”) stands for Structured Query Language. It is a programming language used to manipulate data in Relational Database Management Systems and it “is one of the most common languages for interacting with data” (source sqltutorial.org). SQL consists of three main languages under the same umbrella: