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Registration Now Open for WiDS Worldwide Conference

1/11/2021

 
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On March 8, 2021, International Women’s Day, we will host the inaugural 24-hour online Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide conference. Registration is now open and early bird pricing is in effect through February 5, 2021. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Follow us as we follow the sun, bringing you speakers and sessions from around the world. The WiDS Worldwide conference will include:

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The Women in Data Science (WiDS) Datathon 2021 is Now Live!

1/6/2021

 
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The 4th 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. Register now to take the challenge.

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Data Science Evangelist Parul Pandey Describes How the WiDS Datathon Encourages Collaboration Between and Across Teams

1/5/2021

 
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Parul Pandey, a data science evangelist at H20.ai and 6th place winner in the WiDS Datathon 2020, says the design of the WiDS datathon encourages learning and collaboration between the women competitors. She says this type of collaboration is crucial to help more women get into and succeed in the field of data science.

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Using Human-Centric Data Science at Spotify with Lillian Carrasquillo

12/3/2020

 
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Lillian Carrasquillo, Insights Manager for Spotify’s Personalized Home team, explains how her team uses human-centric data science to create personalized and meaningful experiences for Spotify's customers on a recent WiDS Podcast episode.

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Announcing the 4th Annual WiDS Datathon Challenge: Identifying Diabetes Condition to Provide Better Care for ICU Patients

12/1/2020

 
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We are gearing up to launch the 4th Annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) Datathon in January, in advance of our first 24-hour virtual 2021 WiDS Worldwide Conference on March 8th. This year’s datathon, organized by the WiDS Worldwide team, the West Big Data Innovation Hub, and the WiDS Datathon Committee, will focus on models to determine whether a patient admitted to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) has been diagnosed with a particular type of diabetes.

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IBM's Susan Malaika Explains How WiDS Successfully Pushes Women Forward to Reach Their Potential Around the World

11/30/2020

 
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Susan Malaika, a member of IBM’s Senior Technical Staff and part of the Open Technologies and Developer Advocacy team for Data and AI, explains how WiDS events and contests help women around the world gain confidence and skills to succeed in data science.

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Welcome new WiDS 2021 Ambassadors!

11/2/2020

 
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Ambassador applications for the WiDS 2021 season have opened earlier this month, and we are pleased to begin onboarding nearly 200 ambassadors and co-ambassadors from 40+ countries, including Romania, Thailand, and Nepal! Meet the new WiDS ambassadors.

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Join us for WiDS 2021

11/2/2020

 
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Today, the Women in Data Science (WiDS) initiative celebrates its birthday! Five years ago we hosted the inaugural WiDS Conference at Stanford University. Our goals were the same then as they are now: to inspire women to join the field, educate participants regardless of gender, and support women in the field. In addition to the 400+ participants at Stanford for our inaugural conference, we discovered that 6,000+ people participated online. That made us realize that we had an opportunity for greater impact, worldwide. ​

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Applying Data Assimilation Tools to COVID Forecasting Models with Femke Vossepoel

10/27/2020

 
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Femke Vossepoel, Professor in Geoscience and Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, explains how data assimilation tools can be used to improve COVID-19 forecasting models, on a recent episode of the WiDS Podcast.

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Srujana Kaddevarmuth of Walmart Labs Believes Diversity of Perspectives in Data Science is Vital to Solving the World's Pressing Challenges

10/26/2020

 
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​Srujana Kaddevarmuth, Director of Data Science and Value Realization at Walmart Labs, leads the data science team to create solutions with business value and impact. She has been actively involved with hosting regional WiDS events and shaping the WiDS datathon.

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Become a WiDS Ambassador for 2021!

9/22/2020

 
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We’re thrilled to announce that the WiDS Ambassador program for 2021 is now live, and we are accepting applications.

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Highlights and Videos from WiDS Regional Events Across Continents

9/22/2020

 
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WiDS Ambassadors from Salvador to Bogota to Amman to Bangalore have hosted WiDS regional events, demonstrating much dedication and perseverance during a global pandemic. They share event summaries, highlights, and videos below for you to enjoy.

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BBC Data Scientist Megan Stodel was Inspired and Supported by the London WiDS Community to Launch her Data Science Career

9/21/2020

 
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Megan Stodel loved the arts and humanities as a student but a few years after graduation, she discovered that she enjoyed working with data and wanted to work in data science. After attending WiDS London in 2018, she found a supportive community and network that helped her prepare, search for jobs, and launch her data science career.

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Using Data Science to Study Effects of Air Pollution on Severity of COVID-19 Cases

8/20/2020

 
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With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Francesca Dominici and Rachel Nethery of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health saw a way to connect the research they were doing on air pollution and health with the pandemic. On a recent episode of the WiDS Podcast, they discuss how they are studying the effects of air pollution exposure on different causes of hospitalization to see if pollution could increase a person's vulnerability to COVID-19. While the research is at a preliminary stage, there is a lot of information that points towards the possibility that long-term exposure to air pollution could increase the mortality risk for COVID-19.


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Experience WiDS 2020, around the world

7/21/2020

 
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WiDS ambassadors from Beijing to LaPaz to Kuwait City have hosted WiDS regional events, pivoting and persevering during the global pandemic. In this article, they share event highlights for you to read, and links to watch the recorded videos.

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Iryna Ivanenko Explains How Her Love of Coding Competitions Led Her to the WiDS Datathon and a Second Place Prize in 2020

7/20/2020

 
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Iryna Ivanenko, second place winner of the WiDS Datathon 2020, is a data science and machine learning developer and former WiDS ambassador from Kyiv, Ukraine.


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The Importance of Data Integrity in COVID-19 Clinical Trials with Manisha Desai

7/16/2020

 
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Manisha Desai is a professor of medicine (research) and of biomedical data science, and director of the Quantitative Sciences Unit at Stanford University. She is an expert in the design and analysis of clinical trials and epidemiologic studies across multiple diseases, including COVID-19. In a recent episode of the WiDS Podcast, she provides some insights into the challenges and progress of COVID-19 clinical trials.


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In honor of Juneteenth

6/19/2020

 
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To commemorate Juneteenth, we are reaching out to clearly state our actions and intentions in response to recent events.  In the past weeks and months the US and the world have been reeling–first with a global pandemic, followed by the systemic injustice, inequality, and racism that the pandemic and most recent acts of police brutality exposed. 


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Improving Urban Water Systems Through Data Science, Public Policy and Engineering with Newsha Ajami

6/3/2020

 
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Newsha Ajami is a hydrologist specializing in sustainable water resource management, water policy, the water-energy-food nexus, and urban water strategy. When she was studying hydrology in grad school, she took a water policy class that changed the trajectory of her career. "I would say that was one of the most important events in my professional career. I realized that laws and policies are what change the way we manage resources,” she says. All the data optimization and modeling means nothing unless you can understand the policy layer imposed on how our natural systems operate. ​


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WiDS Datathon 2020 Results and Impact

5/19/2020

 
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The WiDS Datathon encourages women to hone their data science skills through a predictive analytics challenge focused on social impact, bringing people together across borders to work in teams. This year, there were more than 3,000 registrants from 85 countries.

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The Intersection of the Arts and Technology with Andrea Gagliano

5/14/2020

 
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Andrea Gagliano, Head of Data Science, AI and Machine Learning at Getty Images, works at the intersection of art and technology — using machine learning to inspire creativity, and the arts to comprehend technology. She speaks with Professor Margot Gerritsen on the WiDS Podcast.


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WiDS 2020 Regional Events Pivot Online

5/12/2020

 
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We continue to be in awe of the dedication and tenacity of the WiDS ambassadors worldwide. Most of the events described below were planned as in-person events prior to global COVID-19 restrictions. WiDS ambassadors quickly pivoted to online conferences, embracing the format to reach broader audiences.

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Intersectional Data Science

5/11/2020

 
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Women in Data Science (WiDS) is an annual conference at Stanford University that hopes to inspire and educate data scientists and support women in the field. I missed the opportunity to buy tickets because I was underground caving, but thankfully there were regional events planned to coincide, so I jumped at the opportunity to attend WiDS at UC Berkeley. ​

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Using Data To Create Economic Opportunities For All Members Of Global Workforce with Ya Xu

4/15/2020

 
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Ya Xu manages LinkedIn’s global team of data scientists that manage data science projects across the company’s products, sales, marketing, economics, infrastructure, and operations. On a recent episode of the WiDS Podcast, she says the company takes active responsibility over the data they collect to ensure fairness and protect privacy. They are very proactive about how they maintain their members’ trust, either with how they share the data externally or leverage the data to create opportunities.


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WiDS Regional Events, In Person and Online

4/14/2020

 
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The dedication and tenacity of the WiDS ambassadors worldwide are inspiring. Many of the events described below took place in person, just prior to the series of global restrictions in response to COVID-19. Other WiDS ambassadors, when faced with the challenges of the global pandemic, have quickly pivoted to online conferences, with great results.

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