dotData @ UW-Madison

Data Science Club is an inspirational place to begin surfing society’s next big wave — Big Data. Data science has grown immensely across CS, statistics, business, sciences, and other fields. We want to connect, educate, and inspire students across campus and help them understand how data science fits into their interests and careers. We have many opportunities to get involved – from seminars and networking events to study groups to semester long projects. Some of the topics of focus include: • Research across the physical sciences • Marketing & business analytics • Python, R, SAS • Data warehousing & engineering including databasing, Hadoop ecosystem, Apache Spark, Kafka • Bayesian Statistics, Probability • Data acquisition • Computer Security Analytics • Social Network Analysis • Bioinformatics • Machine Learning, Computer Vision, NLP, Deep Learning • Kaggle competitions and data hackathons