PyDataMCR February - Open Source Science & LIGHTNING TALKS

Lightning Talks are an opportunity for members of the community to share a short talk with the wider community - with or without slides!

Introduction to Open-Source Science (OSSci) - Tim Bonnemann (he/him)

Open-Source Science (OSSci) is a new NumFOCUS initiative – launched in July 2022 in partnership with IBM – that aims to accelerate scientific research by improving the ways open source software in science gets done (built, used, funded, sustained, recognized, etc.). OSSci connects scientists, OSS developers and other stakeholders to share best practices, identify common pain points, and explore solutions together.

The five OSSci interest groups to date cover domain-specific topics (chemistry/materials, life sciences/healthcare, climate/sustainability) as well as cross-domain topics (reproducibility, map of science), with more to be rolled out in 2024. This lightning talk will provide a brief overview of OSSci’s activities to date, our plans for 2024, and how you can get involved.

Tim Bonnemann, Community Lead, Open-Source Science (OSSCi) at IBM Research

AutoXAI4Omics: Automated eXplainable AI for Omics - Anna Paola Carrieri (she/her)

AutoXAI4Omics (https://github.com/IBM/AutoXAI4Omics) is a command line automated explainable AI tool that easily enable healthcare and life sciences scientists (e.g., biologists, bioinformaticians, clinicians) to perform prediction tasks from omics data (e.g., gene expression; microbiome data; SNPs) and any tabular data (e.g., clinical data) using a range of machine learning methods. As an example a scientist may quickly an end-to-end ML analysis to predict disease type or status from genomics data without having to code or understand the deep technical details of the ML pipeline. A broad technical team from IBM Research has developed, tested and validated the tool for -Omics use cases over a number of years

Anna Paola Carrieri, Manager, Healthcare and Life Science team in IBM Research UK

The floor will then be opened up to other community lightning talks!

We'll be at BabNQ, the capacity is limited to 60.

EVENT GUIDELINES

PyDataMCR is a strictly professional event, as such professional behaviour is expected.

PyDataMCR is a chapter of PyData, an educational program of NumFOCUS and thus abides by the NumFOCUS Code of Conduct

https://pydata.org/code-of-conduct.html

Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with its contents.

ACCESSIBILITY

Under 16s welcome with a responsible guardian. There is a quiet room available if needed. The event space is downstairs.

SPONSORS

Thank you to NUMFocus for sponsoring Meetup and further support