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Meeting Details

Typical meetings are on Wednesday evenings at the Digital HKS office (1 Brattle Square, Office #470). Food is provided!

Python Bootcamp Series: 5pm-6pm

Project Work or Speaker Series: 6pm-8pm

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Upcoming Events

Updated on September 9th, 2019 by Eric Englin

October 23rd

Meeting Location: 1 Brattle Square, Office #470

Project Work (6pm-8pm): Intro to mapping

The group will look into creating map visualizations using Python. These will show fire and other social hazards geographically to better explore and represent data.

Past Events

Updated on October 9th, 2019 by Eric Englin

October 9th

Meeting Location: 1 Brattle Square, Office #470

Python Bootcamp Series (5:30pm-7pm): Intro Machine Learning

The group looked at using machine learning techniques to predict survival rates for Titanic passengers.

October 3rd

Meeting Location: Rubenstein 306

Speaker Series (4pm-5:30pm): AI and Automation in Government with Federal CIO Group
Real Talk From Tech Leadership in the Federal Government: U.S. CIO Suzette Kent, DOJ CIO Joe Klimavicz, USDA CIO Gary Washington, and the Federal CIO Council
The U.S. Federal Government is focused on adopting artificial intelligence and automation, as part of modernizing government. Yet many critical IT systems are older, and much of the $90B/year goes to maintaining legacy technology. What is the path forward? Speakers include U.S. CIO Suzette Kent, Department of Justice CIO Joe Klimavicz, USDA CIO Gary Washington, GSA Deputy CIO Beth Anne Killoran, and the other members of the federal CIO council for an interactive conversation.
Moderated by Nick Sinai, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at HKS, and Mitch Weiss, Professor of Management Practice at HBS.

September 25th

Meeting Location: 1 Brattle Square, Office #470

Python Bootcamp Series (6pm-8pm): Starting Out in Python

Project Work (6pm-8pm): The group looked at using machine learning techniques to predict survival rates for Titanic passengers.

Updated on April 9th, 2019 by Eric Englin

Python Bootcamp Series (5pm-6pm, 1 Brattle Square, Office #470): Data Wrangling

Meeting Time: 6pm-8pm

Meeting Location: 1 Brattle Square, Office #470

Meeting Time: 6pm-8pm

Speaker Series: Miro Kazakoff
Communicating data effectively is a critical skill for modern professionals. The easier it is for people to understand the results and implications of your work, the more likely they are to properly incorporate that data into their decision making. This talk provides participants with a more nuanced understanding of how our brains process visual information. Attendees can expect to leave this talk with concrete tips to help them create more effective data communications (specifically graphs) and a framework to present that data to others more effectively.
Miro Kazakoff is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He develops the school’s data communications curriculum.

Updated on April 9th, 2019 by Eric Englin

April 4th

Tableau Bootcamp (5pm-6pm, Rubenstein G21, Neustadt): Mapping & Dashboarding

Datasets for this session are at the following link: Data Science Google Drive

Meeting Location: Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein G21 - Neustadt Room (Adjacent to Winter Garden)

Meeting Time: 6pm-8pm

Speaker Series: Stefanie Costa Leabo
Want to understand how cities are using data analytics to solve some of their most pressing urban issues? The City of Boston is one of the pioneers of using data science and analytics in local government.
Join us for a conversation with Stephanie Costa Leabo (Chief Data Officer for the City of Boston) and Matthew Smith (Principal Data Scientist for the City of Boston) to learn about the challenges, potential, and importance of building a proper data pipeline.
This event will be held at 6 PM in R-G21 Neustadt on the main HKS campus. Dinner will be provided. See below for more details.

March 7th

Python Bootcamp Series (5pm-6pm, Wexner G02): Data Wrangling

Meeting Location: Harvard Kennedy School, Rubenstein G21 - Neustadt Room (Adjacent to Winter Garden)

Meeting Time: 6pm-8pm

Speaker Series: David Sparks, Head of analytics for the Boston Celtics will be joining our club for a discussion on using data science to better understand and improve basketball! David Sparks received his PhD in Political Science from Duke University

February 28th

Meeting Location: 1 Brattle Square, Office #470

Python Bootcamp Series (5pm-6pm): Visualization Techniques

Project Work (6pm-8pm): 1st session to create NCAA Mens Basketball predictions for 2019 March Madness Tournament

February 21st

Meeting Location: 1 Brattle Square, Office #470

Speaker Series: Oleg Pianykh, Director of Medical Analytics at Massachusetts General Hospital joined the data science club to talk about how analytics are being used to improve health outcomes and the operations of MGH. Oleg Pianykh also teaches at the Harvard Extension School about Big Data in Healthcare Settings. He received his PhD from LSU.

February 7th

Meeting Location: 1 Brattle Square, Office #470

Python Bootcamp Series (5pm-6pm): Starting Out in Python

Project Work (6pm-8pm): The group looked at using machine learning techniques to create an application screeing program for Donors Choose.