Texas A&M Institute of Data Science, Texas A&M High Performance Research Computing, and Texas Engineering Experiment Station invite you to attend a two-day hands-on data science camp on Augest 19 and 20, 2019. This camp is to introduce the fundamentals of data science to students and researchers from Texas A&M University, Blinn College, and Minority Serving Institutions in Texas.

Place: ILSB auditorium

Time: 8:30AM - 5:00PM Aug 19 - Aug 20

Registration:

There is a $40 registration fee (plus Eventbrite fee) to cover the breakfast, refreshments, and lunch for two days. Travel and accomendation are on your own.

In order to encourage more students from Minority Serving Institutions in Texas to pursue tech positions and career growth, the registration charge will be $20 (plus Eventbrite fee) for students from Texas Minority Serving Institutions (https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/edlite-minorityinst-list-tab.html).

Please register with an email address from your academic institution.

Refund Policy:

You can cancel the registration and receive refund on or before Aug 12th (a week before the bootcamp).

Prerequisites:

Familiarity with the basic programming, fundamentals such as functions and variables.

You are encouraged to attend the 3rd Software Carpentry Workshop at Texas A&M on Aug 15-16 to learn some basic research computing skills before the data science bootcamp.

https://tamu-carpentry.github.io/2019-08-15-TAMU/

Agenda:

Day one (Aug 19):

08:30 - Registration and breakfast

09:00 - Introduction to Data Science - Part I (lecture)

10:20 - Break (refreshments)

10:30 - Introduction to Data Science - Part II (lecture)

12:00 - Lunch (provided)

13:00 - Introduction to Python for Data Scientists (lecture)

14:50 - Break (refreshments)

15:00 - Data Analysis with Pandas and Numpy (hands-on lab)

16:30 - Wrap-up

Day two (Aug 20):

08:30 - Registration and breakfast

09:00 - Data exploration and visualization - Part I (lecture + hands-on lab)

10:20 - Break (refreshments)

10:30 - Data exploration and visualization - Part II (lecture + hands-on lab)

12:00 - Lunch (provided)

13:00 - Machine learning with Scikit-learn - Part I (lecture + hands-on lab)

14:50 - Break (refreshments)

15:00 - Machine learning with Scikit-learn - Part II (lecture + hands-on lab)

16:30 - Wrap-up

Workshop Instructions:

1. Please bring your own laptop.

2. Make sure that WebSockets works on your laptop:

• Test your laptop at http://websocketstest.com

• Under ENVIRONMENT, confirm that “WebSockets” is checked yes.

• Under WEBSOCKETS (PORT 443), confirm that “Data Receive,” “Send,” and “Echo Test” are checked yes.

Parking:

If you are driving, please refer to the instructions on the Texas A&M Transportation Services website for the details about the parking for visitors.

http://transport.tamu.edu/Parking/visitor.aspx

This data science camp is supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1925764.

This data science camp is brought to you by: