Thanks for joining us at "Forecasting Disease Outbreaks: Data Science for Epidemiology"
Slides from the talks, free book giveaways, and more upcoming events around Charlottesville
Thanks again to everyone who joined us at the UVA School of Data Science on Wednesday for Charlottesville Data Science’s December event! Aniruddha Adiga, a Research Assistant Professor at the UVA Biocomplexity Institute, and VP Nagraj, a practicing data scientist and Ph.D. candidate at the UVA School of Data Science, gave back-to-back talks, sharing insights into how their teams are applying modern data science tools and techniques to real-world epidemic forecasting.
The slides from both talks are now available here:
Machine Learning for Drug Discovery Book Giveaway
Congratulations to Macon, Mark, Terry, and Marcin, all of whom won a free copy of the e-book version of Machine Learning for Drug Discovery, courtesy of Manning Publications! Everyone who entered to win also received a discount code for 45% off any purchases from the Manning website.
We’re going to do more free book giveaways like this in the future!
More upcoming events around Charlottesville
Tuesday, December 9: Cville AI Explorers will host their December meeting, featuring the talk Tuning the Tuners: Building a Multi-Agent System for Search Relevance Optimization from Eric Pugh. Eric is a co-founder of OpenSource Connections, a Charlottesville-based search & AI consulting firm, and shapes the technical direction of the OpenSearch project.
Friday, December 12: The Center for Open Science is hosting a colloquium on research integrity at the CODE Building on the Downtown Mall. At a Crossroads: Charting a Path for Research Integrity will examine this year’s significant shift in U.S. federal science policy and its implications for the trustworthiness of science and scholarship. The program will feature speakers from the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Center for Open Data Enterprise, and other organizations, as well as multiple former officials from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The event is free to attend, but advance registration is required.
Thursday, January 8: The Charlottesville Rust Meetup is holding an online Meet, Swap, and Learn event. Ring in the new year with a virtual show-and-tell of your favorite Rust books, blogs, videos, and conferences from 2025!
Thursday, January 22: Join Charlottesville Data Science for our January event, Seeing in the Dark: Unlocking AI in Next-Gen Radar Applications. In this talk, May Casterline, a director of Solutions Architecture at NVIDIA, will introduce NVRadar — a GPU-native software framework that unites digital signal processing and AI into a single, accessible workflow. May recently gave this talk at NVIDIA’s major GTC conference, and now she’s bringing it home for the Charlottesville Data Science community! We’ll be gathering in person at TELUS Digital (formerly WillowTree).