Agenda
9:00 a.m. — Registration (Abbott Center Auditorium Lobby)
9:45 a.m. to 10 a.m. — Welcome (Abbott Center Auditorium)
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Arlyn Burgess, Associate Director for Operations and Strategic Initiatives, UVA Data Science Institute
10 a.m. to 11 a.m. — Keynote (Abbott Center Auditorium)
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Introduction: Narges Tabari, Research Scientist, UVA Data Science Institute
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Rama Akkiraju, Director, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM Watson AI Operations/IBM Master Inventor, Member, IBM Academy of Technology
11 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. — Break (Abbott Center Auditorium Lobby)
11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. — Panel of Women Executives and Founders in Data Science (Abbott Center Auditorium)
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Introduction: Hyunyoung Choi, S&P Global
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Moderator: Samantha Toet (organizer, R-Ladies)
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Miriam Friedel (Director of Data Science, Metis Machine)
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Kim Scott (co-founder/VP of data science, Astraea)
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Tatenda E. Ndambakuwa (founder, Shiri Agtech)
12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. — Roundtable Lunch (Abbott Center Dining Room)
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. — Skills Sessions & Research Highlights
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Research Highlights (CR 120)
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Introduction to Social Network Analysis — Kelsey Campbell, founder, Gayta Science (CR 130)
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Visual Diagnostics for More Informed Machine Learning — Rebecca Bilbro, ICX Media (CR 140)
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Data Visualization with Python and Jupyter Notebooks — Erin Braswell, Center for Open Science (CR 150)
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Accelerating Data Science Workflows with RAPIDS — May Casterline, NVIDIA (CR 160)
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Analyzing Unstructured Information Using Text Mining in R — Valentina Subow, Data & Analytics Consultant, Excella (CR 170)
3:45 p.m. to 5 p.m. — Afternoon keynote (Abbott Center Auditorium Lobby)
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Introduction: Jennifer Hill, VP of Data Science Capital One
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Meredith Broussard (Author, “Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World”)
5 p.m. to 6 p.m. — Reception (South Lounge)
