Working with Data in Open Source Research: hosted by The Wikimedia Foundation

We are excited to announce a R-Ladies speaker event hosted at Wikimedia headquarters in San Francisco. Join us to hear from two Data Scientists, Grace Nolan and Chelsy Xie.

Grace Nolan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-nolan-1a72532a/)is a recent computer science graduate of the University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand and a full-time systems developer for Enable Ltd. She will talk about her journey into women in tech & open source research, showing her findings along the way including a survey she conducted on how people got into OSS.

Chelsy Xie (https://www.linkedin.com/in/xixie/) has been a data analyst at The Wikimedia Foundation since 2016. She will talk about her work in the Discovery department (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery) at Wikimedia, where she utilizes data to make the wealth of knowledge and content in the Wikimedia projects easily discoverable.

Schedule

6:00-6:15 Networking & Pizza

6:15-6:30 Welcome

6:30-7:10 "My Journey into Women in Tech and Open Source Research" Grace Nolan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-nolan-1a72532a/)

7:10-7:40 "Data Analysis in Discovery" Chelsy Xie (https://www.linkedin.com/in/xixie/) (https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:CXie_(WMF))

7:40-7:45 Closing

7:45-8:00 Networking

Attending

All attendees NEED a photo ID to enter Wikimedia Foundation. We have a strict limit of attendees- do not RSVP unless you know you can come.