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Feb 11
2025
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Introduction to Research Data Management

Instructor(s):
John Borghi
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Your research data is important. In this session, we’ll discuss how to properly store, organize, and document your work to ensure that important data isn’t lost and that you are meeting expectations set by the parties that fund and publish your research. After this session, you’ll have the tools required ...
Feb 12
2025
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
ALWAY M114

Scientific Data Visualization with Python, Part 1

Instructor(s):
Nikhil Milind
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Visualization Is a key part of exploring and understanding patterns within data sets. This session introduces matplotlib, a popular library used to make scientific plots in Python. The purpose of this session is to provide a simple introduction to the matplotlib interface and to create two simple plots to visualize ...
Feb 19
2025
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
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Scientific Data Visualization with Python, Part 2

Instructor(s):
Nikhil Milind
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This is Part 2 of our Scientific Data Visualization class. This session builds on Part 1, and participants continue to learn how to use matplotlib and different ways of visualizing data. The code that is developed in this course can be used on data in other contexts. At the end of ...
Feb 25
2025
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Zoom

Open Science for Preterm Birth Research: Advancing Discovery Through a Public Data Repository and a DREAM Crowdsourcing Challenge (BAOSC)

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Event Details: This month, the Bay Area Open Science Group will be joined by Tomiko Oskotsky, a physician-scientist in the Sirota Lab at the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, UCSF. She earned her B.S. in Biochemistry from UCLA and her M.D. from the Medical College of Wisconsin, where she was elected ...
Mar 19
2025
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
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Python for Beginners, Part 1

Instructor(s):
Nikhil Milind
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Python is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. Part 1 of this interactive, hands-on session introduces students to the basic functionalities of Python as students will learn foundational programming skills and gain experience in applying Python to real-world scenarios that they can then use in the context of their own work. ...
Mar 26
2025
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
ALWAY M114

Python for Beginners, Part 2

Instructor(s):
Nikhil Milind
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Seats left: 23
Part 2 of this interactive, hands-on session builds on what participants learned in Part 1, and it continues to expand foundational programming skills and practical applications of Python that students can apply in the context of their own work. Learning objectives: 1) automate tasks with loops; 2) perform conditional operations; ...
May 14
2025
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Women in Data Science @Lane Medical Library Virtual Conference

Instructor(s):
TBD
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WiDS Stanford @ Medical Lane Library is independently organized by Lane Medical Library to be part of the mission to increase participation of women in data science and to feature outstanding women doing outstanding work. WiDS @ Lane Medical Library aims to inspire, engage, and support data scientists and women in the field. ...