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LA County's Women in Data Science Kickoff Draws Nearly 200

Almost 200 women who work in IT for Los Angeles County gathered last week for the inaugural meeting of Women in Data Science event, a collaboration of the Los Angeles County Office of the CIO and the county’s Internal Services Department. It was delivered as part of the Women in Data Science (WiDS) at Stanford program.
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Government Statistics Section News for May 2019

Almost 200 people joined data scientists from around the world to celebrate Women in Data Science (WiDS) March 4. Local events were organized in more than 150 regions, one of which was sponsored by the ASA and held in the DC-Virginia-Maryland area. The regional event started with workshops on GitHub, R Shiny, statistical learning methods, and ethics in data science, which were followed by the keynote talks streamed from the main WiDS event. 
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How to make visible the contributions of women in science?

Since the founding of the Nobel Prize in 1901, only 18 women have been awarded for their contribution to the world of science. For Ana Luna, Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad del Pacífico, this figure shows a huge gap: it is difficult for a scientist to achieve recognition for her discoveries. 
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WiDS Qatar 2019 Conference featured on QatarTV
​We are glad to share with you that the WiDS Qatar 2019 conference organized by ArabWIC Qatar on 20th April 2019, was featured on QatarTV. We hosted three distinguished women speakers working in different domains such as social media, genetics and medicine with data science. We also had one speaker talking about Data Visualization. In sum, the event had 4 tech talks and a panel.
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Midwest Big Data Hub co-leads local events for 4th Annual Global Women in Data Science Conference

The Midwest Big Data Hub co-led local participation in the 4th annual Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference, with sponsorship from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the University of Illinois. The event was free and open to all. The WiDS Conference, hosted on March 4th at 150 locations around the world, seeks to unite and connect women working in data science fields.
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Women in Data Science Conference At ITU Copenhagen​

With a straight dive into data clustering and algorithms Claire Mathieu opened the 2019 Women in Data and Science (WiDS) conference. The Parisian Director of Research at The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), had, like many other speakers, come from afar to participate in the WiDS conference at the IT University of Copenhagen (ITU). 
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WiDS at the UDLA, Women in Data Science

Extraordinary women doing extraordinary work is the statement that unites the WiDS exhibitors , an event organized by the UDLA that coincides with the annual conference of Global Women in Data Science, which is carried out by Stanford University and is replicated in more than 150 cities around the world.  
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WiDS Mumbai 2019

Fractal Analytics sponsored the Women in Data Science(WiDS) Mumbai Conference! #FractalforWiDS made it possible for us, WiDS Mumbai Ambassadors, to create a platform that celebrates women in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, and encourages women to choose and to remain in the field of Data Science. So far, in these 2 editions, we are proud to have featured 17 amazing women who apply Data Science in various industries.
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Top 15 Data Science Audio Podcasts & Radio You Must Subscribe and Listen to in 2019

CONGRATULATIONS to every podcaster that has made this Top Data Science Podcasts list! This is the most comprehensive list of best Data Science Podcasts on the internet and I’m honoured to have you as part of this! I personally give you a high-five and want to thank you for your contribution to this world. 
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Back to the Women in Data Science (WiDS)

If the initiative Women in Data Science (or WiDS for intimates ) was born in the American university in 2015, it now represents an event taking place in more than 150 cities worldwide. And the Paris edition was organized by Total, in their famous Coupole tower at La Défense. Nathalie Brunelle, project director at TOTAL @ Saclay says it pretty well in her introduction to the subject: there is still a lot of confusion between what the movies call artificial intelligence and the actual real applications.
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WiDS 2019: Women Discuss How Data Science Is A Great Career Choice

WiDS regional event is organised by the WiDS Ambassadors. WiDS Pune is an independent event organised by Sucheta Dhere and Rutuja Udyawar to coincide with the annual Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference held at Stanford University and an estimated 150+ locations worldwide.
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Women in Data Science conference unites global community of researchers and practitioners

The MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) convened professional data scientists, academic researchers, and students from a variety of disciplines for the third annual daylong Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference in Cambridge. WiDS Cambridge is one of many global satellite events of the WiDS conference at Stanford University, where attendees join a global community of data science researchers and practitioners. 
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Prince Sultan University organizes "Women in Data Science" in its second edition

Prince Sultan University, in cooperation with Stanford University, organized the "Women in Data Science" in its second edition, which aims to promote the participation of women in all disciplines, such as engineering, health, law, education, administration and other disciplines. The forum aims to expose the latest data science research in the Middle East by encouraging the exchange of ideas and interdisciplinary cooperation between local and international researchers and industry leaders. 
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Women in Data Science Conference La Paz 2019

Women in Data Science La Paz has a year to live !! And we celebrate in the best way! ... sharing on Data Science in a new version of the local WiDS conference. Last Saturday, March 9, we carried out the second version of the local conference of Women in Data Science La Paz. Thanks to our great team, we had a full house!​ The event's agenda was flooded with the experience of women with a long career and experience in Data Science.
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Making connections, career development highlight Women in Data Science regional event

For the second straight year, the HPC Innovation Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) played host to a Women in Data Science (WiDS) regional event on March 4, drawing in dozens of attendees from LLNL, local universities and other Bay Area national laboratories
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Algorithms loaded with biases, not just gender

The recommendations we get from Netflix or Spotify, how the banks decide who to give a loan, the ads we see on the social networks and even the initial sorting of our resume: behind almost every action we make on the net or outside there are huge amounts of data collected, analyzed and applied for knowledge production . It's called Data Science, and it's the most current hot revolution - not just in the technology world. 
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Women in Data Science ha celebrado en Madrid su tercera edición

El Espacio Fundación Telefónica ha acogido la tercera edición de la conferencia Women in Data Science para debatir sobre el impacto de la Inteligencia Artificial y la robotización en las empresas españolas, el mercado de trabajo y la gestión del talento. La reunión ha congregado a más de 250 personas, entre las que figuraban directivas de entidades como Endesa, BBVA, Fundación Telefónica, IE Exponential Learning, Altran y Llorente & Cuenca.
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Zain partners Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conferences in Kuwait and Lebanon to inspire and educate

Zain Group, the leading mobile telecom innovator in eight markets across the Middle East and Africa, announces its partnership and support of Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conferences held in Kuwait City and Beirut earlier this month. The two events were organized jointly by Kuwait’s Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) and American University of Beirut (AUB) for their respective events, both in coordination and linked with the annual Global WiDS Conference held at Stanford University and an estimated 150 plus locations worldwide.
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Showcasing Diversity in Tech: Women in Data Science

Last week, more than 150 technology leaders convened at the SAP campus in Palo Alto, California, to talk about diversity, technology, and business development at the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Silicon Valley @ SAP event.
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Utah's First Data Science conference for women draws unexpected interest

Jes Ford thought maybe 20 or 30 people would show up. Certainly not anymore. Certainly not 100. But more than 120 people showed up to Utah’s first Women in Data Science conference in Salt Lake City Monday. Women in Data Science was born nearly four years ago at Stanford University in an effort to “inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, regardless of gender, and support women in the field.” 
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Women lead the way at global data science conference

It’s the biggest data science conference in the world — and it centres entirely around the work being done by women in the field. In numbers provided by the California university, in 2018 Stanford’s Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference drew more than 100,000 participants through 150 regional events in countries around the world. This year, the conference is coming to the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM). 
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IIMB to host ‘Women in Data Science Conference’ on March 9

The Data Centre and Analytics Lab (DCAL) at IIM Bangalore to host the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference on March 9 (Saturday) at the IIMB auditorium. WiDS is an initiative of Stanford University and IIM Bangalore is hosting the Bangalore region event.
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Women in Data Science Blacksburg event brings together students, faculty​

The growing field of data science and analytics was at the center of the inaugural Women in Data Science Blacksburg Conference, held Feb. 11 on the Virginia Tech campus. At the conference, participants heard from women in industry, including Milinda Lakkam, a senior data scientist with LinkedIn, and academia, including Sally C. Morton, dean of the College of Science and a statistician by training with a long career in statistics data analytics. A career panel also was held.
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Announcing WiDS 2019

Now is the time to get ready for WiDS 2019! You can participate in a number of ways.
Attend WiDS Stanford or a WiDS regional event; become a WiDS ambassador, and host an event near you; compete in the WiDS Datathon, and subscribe to the WiDS podcast.
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100,000 people will attend Global Women in Data Science Conference

The biggest event on the data science community calendar is the one that showcases women in the field. Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) is like the Women’s March for analytics. It’s a phenomenon too big for just one city. The conference was founded by Margot Gerritsen, a Stanford faculty member and Director of Stanford's Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME).
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WiDS brings female speakers to the Ottawa stage

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The best way to see more women in STEM fields is to make the ones already there more visible, according to this week’s all-female panel on Techopia Live. Women from Shopify, Leonovus, Montreal’s Element AI and the University of Ottawa engineering department dropped by ahead of next week’s Women in Data Science conference to preview the event and provide a few early insights into the conference theme of artificial intelligence.
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Mujeres en ciencias de datos, WiDS 2018 (La Nación Data, Argentina)

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Un evento de la Universidad de Stanford con capitulo local en la FIUBA. La jornada está destinada a compartir experiencias y conocimientos de mujeres en este campo, con el objeto de inspirar a otras, pero orientado a un público amplio interesado en estas temáticas, es decir, sin distinción de género.
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CIO Magazine, NZ: Career opportunities in data science

How do you inspire more people to enter this important and growing field that is having a major impact on every sector of our society? Katarina Kolich, head of enterprise data services at Bank of New Zealand, continues her advocacy to encourage women to consider a career in information technology.
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Silicon Angle: Stanford showcases women in data science to help close gender gap at WiDS 2018

Careers in technology fields can offer financial freedom to women around the world, but gender inequality still plagues the top tech companies and education systems worldwide. Can academia help close the gender gap from Silicon Valley to Shenzhen? Looking to answer these questions and more, SiliconANGLE is at the Global Women in Data Science Conference at Stanford University. Showcasing women across the globe making a difference in data science, we’re broadcasting live interviews and commentary from our roving news desk, theCUBE.
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Medium Article: The Data Science Infographic: Is “Being a Man” a Qualification?
What is the Data Science Infographic? Ask any data scientist if they’ve seen a “What it takes to be a data scientist” infographic, and they’ll answer in the affirmative (and probably tell you about their side project of collecting and classifying them with a neural net). Because the title data scientist has yet to settle on a universal definition, folks are continuously dreaming up snappy ways to communicate the skills of our trade (I’m just thankful we’ve expanded past the Venn diagrams). The recipe is simple: a drawing of a geek in glasses and a (sometimes comically elaborate) list of skills.
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WiDS Beirut 2018: Women world leaders in data science inspire and educate at AUB

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The AUBxStanford Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference took place at AUB's Olayan School of Business (OSB) on March 5, 2018. Now in its second year, the annual conference is in partnership with the Stanford Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering and is led by AUB for the Arab Middle East and North Africa region. The conference aims to inspire and educate data scientists in general, and support Arab women in this fast-growing, data-driven science that encompasses scientific methods, processes, algorithms, and systems to extract knowledge or insights from data in various forms for better decision-making, policy, and planning.
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WiDS Nairobi 2018 - WiDS comes to Africa!

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As people celebrated women all over the world last week, I decided to spend the day with incredible women in the tech industry especially those in the field of Machine Learning and Data Science at the Nairobi Women in Data Science Conference. The Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference is an annual global conference that is aimed at inspiring and educating data scientists all over the world regardless of gender and support the women in the field. This year’s global WiDS conference was held at Stanford University together with over 100 regional events all over the world where of course, included Nairobi.
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WiDS La Paz 2018

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VISOR BOLIVIA / Alberto Medrano.- Dentro de las actividades por el Día Internacional de la Mujer se realizó eventos en el área de la tecnología en 52 países, como el taller de Ciencia de Datos en Bolivia que tuvo como propósito incentivar la participación de la mujer en la era digital generando ciberactivismo y explorando recursos tecnológicos junto a diversos emprendimientos.
“Women In Data Science” y “Women Techmaker”, que traducido al español significa Mujeres en Ciencia de datos y Creadoras de Tecnología, son comunidades que pretenden incentivar a mujeres de todas las edades a incursionar en el uso efectivo de la tecnología.
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SAP ​- Inspiring Others to Achieve the Improbable

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“The distance between the dream and the reality is shorter than ever before.” Why? Because technology is progressing at an unprecedented rate, says Dr. Adriana Marais, head of Innovation for SAP Africa and one of the 100 finalists selected for the “Mars One” mission, which seeks to establish a human colony on Mars. The ability of humans to build technologies to collect, store, and analyze data has led to the emergence of the field known as “data science” and enables us to do things that have never been done before.
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LinkedIn Article: ​The Women in Data Science Datathon Experience

Women in Data Science (WiDS) is a global event that encourages more women into the field of data science. As part of this year’s event they introduced the WiDS Datathon which was hosted on Kaggle, to allow people to demonstrate and improve their machine learning skills. The problem involved trying to predict a person’s gender based on traditional and mobile banking information. I teamed up with some of my friends, machine learning experts Vinay Benny and Julia Arnold to be one of the teams to represent New Zealand. I think the Kaggle competition provided many opportunities to help people into the field of data science. There are also things that it won’t teach you. If you are planning on entering future competitions then here is some advice on what to expect and how well the skills you get from a Kaggle competition line up with the realities of a data science job.
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Participant Blog - WiDS 2018 Datathon 

It's been a while since the closing of the Datathon but I hadn't gotten the time to write about it. This is my first attempt at participating in a Kaggle competition and I participated because of the nature of the competition - the WiDS Datathon competition seeks to encourage women data scientists to engage in social impact solutions by participating in a predictive analytics contest. They got me at the #socialimpact.
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