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WiDS Regional Event Highlights, April-May 2022

5/11/2022

 
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WiDS Ambassadors continue hosting regional events, bringing WiDS to their local communities. To date nearly 87 WiDS regional events have taken place, with dozens of additional events happening through the end of June.

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How Natural Language Processing is Changing How We Interact with Computers

5/10/2022

 
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Whether it’s asking Siri about the weather, Google for directions, or a customer service bot about your bank account, Natural Language Processing (NLP) is an expected capability across applications today. In WiDS Conference keynotes, workshops and technical talks, experts explore various uses for NLP and how it is shaping how people interact with computers.

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WiDS Datathon Impact 2022

5/9/2022

 
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The WiDS Datathon encourages women to hone their data science skills through an annual challenge focused on social impact, bringing people together across borders to collaborate on teams. This year, the datathon was held on Kaggle from January through the end of February, with over 4,000 participants registered from 95 countries, submitting over 25,000 Kaggle entries. The challenge focused on mitigating the effects of climate change with a focus on energy efficiency, with data provided by partners at Climate Change AI, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and MIT Critical Data.

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WiDS Ambassador in Saudi Arabia Supports and Inspires Women to Succeed in STEM

5/8/2022

 
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Dr. Tanzila Saba, a Research Professor, Associate Chair of Information Systems Department, leader of Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics (AIDA) Lab and WiDS Ambassador at Prince Sultan University in Saudi Arabia for the past five years, supports and inspired women to pursue STEM careers in Saudi Arabia.

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WiDS Regional Event Highlights, February - March 2022

4/13/2022

 
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This year WiDS ambassadors hosted in-person, online, and hybrid events to bring WiDS to their local communities. To date, nearly 70 WiDS regional events have taken place, with dozens of additional events happening in the coming months.

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How Data Science is Reshaping Financial Services

4/12/2022

 
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Financial services is an industry built on data and not surprisingly data science plays a pivotal role in helping financial firms assess risk, detect fraud, make profitable decisions, and improve the customer experience. The Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference and podcast series shares the perspectives of leading experts on the vital role of data science in financial services.

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Tolúlọpẹ́ Ògúnrẹ̀mí: From WiDS London to Stanford PhD

4/11/2022

 
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Tolúlọpẹ́ Ògúnrẹ̀mí’s involvement with WiDS began as a WiDS London ambassador, working with Stanford prior to getting accepted to the Stanford Computer Science (CS) PhD program. She has been able to combine a love of languages with her ability in mathematics and computer science and is now focused on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for low-resource languages, particularly in sub-Saharan African languages. Tolúlọpẹ́ came full circle with WiDS, attending and volunteering for the WiDS Worldwide event in 2022.

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WiDS Datathon 2022 Workshop Highlights

3/22/2022

 
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The WiDS Datathon is a community-driven program that encourages  all data science enthusiasts to hone their data science skills. This year, the WiDS Datathon social impact challenge was focused on climate change. Dozens of WiDS ambassadors hosted WiDS Datathon workshops where they helped their communities to get started on Kaggle, form teams, get mentorship, and even submit their first models. Around 40 workshops were hosted in over 22 countries including Kenya, Nepal, the UK, and Peru.

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WiDS Worldwide Conference Recap: Data Science for More Equitable Solutions

3/21/2022

 
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On March 7, 2022 more than 10,000 people from 99 countries participated in the Women in Data Science (WiDS) hybrid conference held in-person at Stanford University, and online in a virtual event platform and via livestream. The in-person conference included keynote addresses, technical vision talks, panel discussions, and a fireside chat. The online audience could view the in-person conference broadcast, while the virtual event platform attendees also attended workshops, meet-the-speaker sessions, a career expo with our sponsors, and one-on-one networking.

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WiDS Datathon Further Examines the Impacts of Climate Change

3/8/2022

 
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In the Excellence in Research Award (Phase II), we will broaden our focus to examine the impacts of climate change across multiple domains. Participants in Phase II will have the opportunity to choose to explore one dataset among several, spanning sectors including healthcare, energy and environmental protection. Participants will also have opportunities to take deeper dives into their dataset and tackle a range of impactful real-world tasks. Teams will submit a research report at the end of Phase II.

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Announcing more WiDS Worldwide conference speakers: Data Science Leaders at Stanford and online on March 7, 2022

1/27/2022

 
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The 7th Annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide conference will be a hybrid conference, held in-person at Stanford University and online on March 7, 2022. WiDS Worldwide is a technical conference featuring outstanding women doing outstanding work in data science and related fields. This year’s conference will feature keynote addresses, several technical talks, panel discussions, and time for networking. The simultaneous online conference will include a broadcast of the conference at Stanford, in addition to workshops, speaker interviews, a career expo, and networking.

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Registration now open for WiDS Worldwide conference online, March 7th. Free tickets for the first 5,000 students.

1/12/2022

 
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Join us online on March 7, 2022, for the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide conference, a technical conference featuring outstanding women doing exceptional work in data science and related fields, in a wide variety of domains. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.



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WiDS Helps Change Perceptions of What’s Possible for Women in Data Science

1/11/2022

 
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​Manvi Madan, a Data Analytics Specialist for the Ports of Auckland, New Zealand says WiDS has changed her perception about what’s possible for women in data science and has inspired her to become a leader in the space.

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The Women in Data Science (WiDS) Datathon 2022 is Now Live on Kaggle!

1/6/2022

 
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The 5th Annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) Datathon is now open on Kaggle, and the competition has begun! This annual datathon encourages women to hone their skills through a  data science challenge focused on social impact. Watch the recording from the WiDS Datathon Welcome Event to learn about how you can get started with the WiDS Datathon competition. We’ll guide you through the first steps on Kaggle, datathon resources, tutorials, workshops, and more.
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A Beginner’s Tutorial for the WiDS Datathon 2022 challenge

1/5/2022

 
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Climate change is one of the critical challenges facing humanity today. Over the past few years, there have been widespread climate-driven disruptive events such as floods and wildfires. The devastation caused by these events has resulted in an awareness of the urgency of the issue. Indeed, people and governments have started working together in the direction of climate-focused coordinated action. At WiDS, we believe that it will be important for future data scientists to gain familiarity with mathematical and statistical models used to model climate data.  For this reason, the focus of the WiDS Datathon this year is a climate-focused challenge: prediction of building energy consumption.

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WiDS Ambassador in Jordan Empowers Women in her Region Through a Datathon Workshop

1/4/2022

 
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​Dr. Zaher Ali Al-Sai, a WiDS Ambassador in Jordan, says creating and leading a workshop for the WiDS Datathon expanded her skills and confidence by empowering women in her region.

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Cindy Orozco Bohorquez: From Bogotá, to Stanford PhD, to WiDS Worldwide Speaker

12/15/2021

 
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​Cindy Catherine Orozco Bohorquez started her PhD at Stanford’s Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) the same year that WiDS launched its first conference. Her involvement with WiDS started as a shy volunteer and evolved to fulfilling her dream of becoming a speaker at global and regional WiDS conferences, a WiDS workshop instructor, and a member of a thriving community of women data scientists.

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Advocating for indigenous data sovereignty with Tahu Kukutai

12/9/2021

 
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​Tahu Kukutai, a professor at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and a Māori woman, is leading data sovereignty initiatives that advocate for indigenous data ownership, guardianship, and governance. On a new WiDS Podcast episode Tahu delves into indigenous data sovereignty, as she walks us through her experiences and initiatives.

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Announcing the WiDS Worldwide conference speakers: Data Science Leaders Converge at Stanford on March 7, 2022

12/6/2021

 
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The 7th Annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide conference will be a hybrid conference, held in-person at Stanford University and online on March 7, 2022. WiDS Worldwide is a technical conference featuring outstanding women doing outstanding work in data science and related fields. This year’s conference will feature keynote addresses, several technical talks, panel discussions, and time for networking. The simultaneous online conference will include a broadcast of the conference at Stanford, in addition to workshops, speaker interviews, a career expo, and networking.

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Announcing the 5th Annual WiDS Datathon 2022 Challenge: Using Data Science to Mitigate Climate Change

11/17/2021

 
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The 5th Annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) Datathon will launch in January, in advance of the WiDS Worldwide Conference to be held on March 7th, 2022. This year’s WiDS Datathon, organized by the WiDS Worldwide team, Stanford University, Harvard University IACS, and the WiDS Datathon Committee, will address an important way to mitigate the effects of climate change with a focus on energy efficiency. The WiDS Datathon Committee is partnering with experts from many disciplines at Climate Change AI, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and MIT Critical Data.
“The WiDS Datathon has consistently featured a social impact challenge”, said Karen Matthys, Co-Director of the WiDS initiative at Stanford University. “This esteemed group of collaborators created a challenge related to one of the most critical issues of our time: climate change.”

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Women Using Data Science to Build a More Sustainable World

11/16/2021

 
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Data science is a crucial tool to quantify, predict and communicate about the impact of climate change. For example, a recent study used machine learning to analyze over 100,000 weather events that could be linked to global warming and discovered that 80 percent of the earth’s land has been adversely impacted and at least 85 percent of the world’s population has been affected by extreme weather events caused by climate change.

The Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference and podcast series has been showcasing leading women data science experts who are using data science to help us understand the impact and potential solutions to combat climate change. Our WiDS Datathon 2022 dataset will also be focused on the impacts of climate change.
 
Here are some recent podcasts, panels, and talks from our WiDS conferences that address sustainability.

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First Time Kaggle Participant Team Earns WiDS Datathon Excellence in Research Honorary Mention

11/15/2021

 
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The WiDS Datathon Excellence in Research Award is an opportunity for WiDS Datathon teams to write papers about their research. The papers are judged on their potential for real-world impact, rigor in scientific methodology, and clarity of communication. Team Parameters Patrol from the United States and the United Kingdom with teammates Natalie Pirkola, Elena Barbulescu, Stacy Forsyth and Kate Tereshchenko won an Honorary Mention for their research paper, Feature Engineering to Improve Performance.

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Researching algorithmic fairness and causal inference in public health with Allison Koenecke

11/11/2021

 
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Allison Koenecke, currently a postdoc at Microsoft Research and soon to be assistant professor at Cornell, discusses her decision to pursue a career in academia focused on algorithmic fairness and causal inference in public health, on a recent WiDS Podcast episode.

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Registration now open: WiDS Worldwide conference, March 7, 2022

10/19/2021

 
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Register now for the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide conference 2022, a technical conference featuring outstanding women discussing their exceptional work in data science and related fields, in a wide variety of research domains. All genders are welcome and encouraged to attend!​

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Data Visualization: Turning Information Into Images

10/13/2021

 
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Data scientists work with large data sets that require computational analysis to gain insights and knowledge that often drive important decisions within organizations in industry, academia, non-profits, and government. In order for these insights to have the desired impact, data scientists need to communicate clearly to be well--and quickly--understood. Data visualization allows data scientists the ability to provide unique views into the data and about the data, turning data sets into insights at-a-glance. ​

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