Weekly Learning: Feb 9 - 15
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Welcome to your Weekly Learning update. Here are your many opportunities to learn:
Tuesday, Feb 11: Book Club
This group meets for discussion and problem solving as they read sections of Deep Learning, which is available for free. They will be working on sections 7.9 - 7.12.
Location: kakao (415 Westlake Ave N, Seattle, WA)
6:00 - 7:30 PM
Thursday, Feb 13: WiDS Datathon Team Work Time
We continue our series of WiDS Datathon events with another session for teams to work on their projects.
Location: Google Seattle - South Lake Union
1021 Valley St, Seattle, WA
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Thursday, Feb 13: Deep Learning Study Group—New Course!
This is the first week of a new course—Sequence Models. This is Course 5 in Coursera’s Deep Learning Specialization. See Meetup for more details!
Location: Starbucks @ 515 Westlake Ave. N, Seattle, WA
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Saturday, Feb 15: Deadline for Conference Proposals
The Women in Data Science Puget Sound 2020 Conference will take place in April, and we are now accepting proposals for talks & workshops. The Call for Proposals is open until February 15th. Send us your ideas!
We would love to hear about an interesting project you’ve done, useful techniques you recommend, or your data science career insights. Talks will be 20 minutes in length, while workshops should be 60-90 minutes. We hope to cover a range of data science domains, including analytics, statistics, machine learning, and data visualization. First time speaker? No problem! We have online materials to help with your proposal.
Check out the conference website or our blog series for more information. Send any further inquiries to us at widspscommittee@gmail.com.