Data Archive Event: Programming Pizza Party (R/Python)

Data Archive, 1120H Rolfe

Learning Python or R? Need dedicated practice time where you can ask questions? Like pizza? This 2-hour work session is designed to give people a chance to work on their Python/R projects alongside other beginners, and receive support from other users and our in-house experts. Bring your laptop, questions, and anything you are working on. Brought to you by the...

Green Family Lecture Series: “Deep Learning and the Future of Artificial Intelligence” by Yann LeCun

Ackerman Grand Ballroom

The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) invites you to the first Green Family Lectures of 2018 featuring Yann LeCun, director of Facebook’s artificial intelligence research and professor at NYU. The rapid progress of AI in the last few years is largely the result of advances in deep learning and neural nets, combined with...

Data Archive Event: Data Cleaning with R

West Electronic Classroom (Room 23167), YRL

It's commonly said that data scientists spend 80% of their time cleaning and manipulating data and only 20% of their time actually analyzing it. For this reason, it is critical to become familiar with the data cleaning process and all of the tools available to you along the way. This course provides a very basic...

UCLA/CESMII Project Presentation: Container Orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker Swarm) and Workflows – Part 3

3909 Math Sciences Building

IDRE will be presenting a container orchestration Demo for Docker containers.  The first part of the presentation will be Docker installation, container creation, moving the container from one host to another.   We will demo deploying containers for load balancing and high availability by deploying them on multiple nodes. RSVP: https://idre.ucla.edu/calendar-event/ucla-cesmii-project-presentation-container-orchestration-kubernetes-docker-swarm-workflows-part-3

Green Family Lecture Series; “AI Breakthroughs & Obstacles to Progress, Mathematical and Otherwise” by Yann LeCun

Ackerman Grand Ballroom

The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) invites you to attend the 2018 Green Family Lectures featuring Yann LeCun, Director of AI Research at Facebook and Professor at NYU. Deep learning is causing revolutions in computer perception and natural language understanding. But almost all these successes largely rely on supervised learning, where the machine is required...

XSEDE HPC Workshop: BIG DATA

IDRE Portal - 5628 Math Sciences Building

UCLA-IDRE along with XSEDE and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is pleased to announce a two day Big Data workshop (February 7-8, 2018, 8 AM-2 PM PDT each day). This workshop will focus on topics such as Hadoop and Spark and will be presented using the Wide Area Classroom (WAC) training platform. For registration and detailed information,...

Winter Wednesday Workshops: Excel for Research

Young Research Library, Research Commons (RC) Classroom Room 11630F, Young Research Library, Los Angeles

Wednesday, Feb 7, 2018 - 11:30am to 1:30pm Research Library (Charles E. Young) Research Commons (RC) Classroom Anthony Caldwell (Center for Digital Humanities) shows how spreadsheets can be really helpful in structuring data—either as a stage during collecting, or as an alternative to a database. Register

Winter Wednesday Workshops: Introduction to Statistical Software

Young Research Library, Research Commons (RC) Classroom Room 11630F, Young Research Library, Los Angeles

Wednesday, Feb 7, 2018 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm Research Library (Charles E. Young) Research Commons (RC) Classroom Christine Wells (Institute for Digital Research and Education), performs feats of fortitude, bending recalcitrant data to her will. Register

Data Archive Event: Data Sharing Bootcamp

Young Research Library, Main Conference Room 280 Charles E Young Dr N, Los Angeles, CA

Have you ever been asked to share your data by a journal editor or funder? Do you want to make your research more reproducible and data citable? This hands-on practical bootcamp will cover all of these topics and give you the skills to Comply with journal/funder data sharing policies Find relevant data repositories Upload your data into a...