Data Science with PyCharm

LOCATION: Room 1220, Health Sciences Learning Center, 750 Highland Ave, Madison, WI 53705

ABSTRACT: In our second Meetup, I'll show you how to leverage all the bells and whistles of my favorite IDE (integrated development environment) to create a robust and well-organized data science project. IDEs are a great way to develop and test software outside a notebook environment, without giving up the advantages that notebooks have to offer. I'll walk you through one of my very own projects, which is a typical small-scale end-to-end data science project. With the PyCharm IDE, I'll show you how to manage git branches, develop, test, debug, and refactor code, and even export your entire project to a Jupyter notebook (if that's your style!). At the end of the talk, you should be aware of all the features PyCharm has to offer to make coding a data science project a breeze.

SPEAKER BIO: Alyssa is currently a postdoc at UW-Madison in Bacteriology. They got their PhD in Physics at Arizona State University, where they studied the difference between living systems and non-living ones. During that time, they were involved in Sundial, which is a program that directly addressed the low retention rates of underrepresented students in Physics by actively creating a culture of fun social events and peer mentoring. Alyssa also did an internship at Microsoft Research, where they implemented one-shot machine learners directly into Minecraft. For two years after graduation, Alyssa worked at VEDA Data Solutions, a local data-science-as-a-service company focused on making messy healthcare data accurate. Now, Alyssa develops fast and improved software for bioinformatics while studying how complex systems (like microbiomes) work together to perform robust functions. Alyssa also works to make science and technology accessible to everyone.

PARKING: You should be able to use the green ones in the map https://deh3q06fonbca.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2019/08/2019-20-Campus-Parking-Map.pdf

FOOD: we will update on this.