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Job opening at WeGo
Aug. 13, 2021—WeGo is hiring for a Transit Business Intelligence Analyst, which is a new position focused on automating reporting processes, conducting statistical analyses, and creating reports and interactive dashboards/visualizations from our various data sources. I thought this might potentially be a good opportunity for recent graduates in your departments or related fields, especially engineering, statistics, computer...
Internship Opportunity
Aug. 13, 2021—A former Vanderbilt student who got his PhD at Harvard has contacted us about an internship opportunity at his company, Onc.AI.
Aug. 17: ‘Watts, Metabolism, Data Analytics: Science’s Impact on Cycling over 25 Years’
Aug. 10, 2021—The virtual event will be Tuesday, Aug. 17, at 11 a.m. CT. Registration is required.
NSF unveils $20 million AI institute with Vanderbilt and partner institutions
Jul. 30, 2021—Vanderbilt University engineering and education faculty are part of a new $20 million research institute funded by the National Science Foundation that aims to create artificial intelligence tools to advance human learning and education.
Data Science Institute kicks off undergraduate summer research program
Jun. 11, 2021—Vanderbilt’s Data Science Institute has kicked off the third year of its undergraduate summer research program. The program engages students who are interested in carrying out data science-related research with a Vanderbilt faculty member and integrates them into the institute’s community of data science scholars. This year, the DSI awarded fellowships to 24 undergraduate students...
Upcoming DSI Data Science Summer 2021 Workshops
May. 17, 2021—Python for Data Science, May 19-21, 10a-12p Programming for data science looks different from programming to solve general-purpose problems. In this workshop, we’ll introduce essential Python, and then move to solving problems using pandas. We’ll also introduce exploratory programming and literate computing using notebooks. We’ll focus on those aspects of Python that are essential for...
Undergraduate Data Science Student, Tingyan (Nicholas) Deng, in the News
May. 14, 2021—Tingyan (Nicholas) Deng, a rising senior with a triple major in Computer Science, Math, and Economics, and minors in Data Science, Scientific Computing, Business, and Electrical Engineering discovered a passion for data science through an interdisciplinary DSI-SRP fellowship project with the Data Science Institute in the summer of 2020. The DSI fellowship offered Deng an opportunity to...
Vanderbilt Microbiome Initiative offers analytics boot camp May 17
May. 12, 2021—The Vanderbilt Microbiome Initiative’s annual boot camp series will introduce participants to an analytical and experimental workflow and web-based visual tools to study and investigate the microbiome. Workshop II in the series is scheduled for Monday, May 17, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. CT. This one-day Zoom workshop is open to the Vanderbilt campus—from trainees to...