100,000 people will attend Global Women in Data Science ConferenceThe 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). Read more
WiDS brings female speakers to the Ottawa stage
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. Read more
Empowering Through Data: WiDS & WiDS Datathon
Last Monday, February 12, women from all walks of life came to Microsoft New England R&D (NERD) Center to explore ways predictive analytics can be used to solve this issue. As part of the global Women in Data Science Conference (WiDS) hosted at Stanford University and at the Microsoft New England R&D center on March 5, we were excited to bring together women for a WiDS 2018 Data Workshop and conference pre-event. Read more
Mujeres en ciencias de datos, WiDS 2018 (La Nación Data, Argentina)
CIO Magazine, NZ: Career opportunities in data science
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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Silicon Angle Article: 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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WiDS Beirut 2018: Women world leaders in data science inspire and educate at AUB-Stanford partnership
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 Riyadh @Prince Sultan University
Prince Sultan University (PSU) represented by the College of Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS), organized the Women in Data Science conference (WiDS) in collaboration with Stanford University on March 5. A number of local and international data scientists took part in the event. “We’re thrilled to be working with Prince Sultan University to bring the Women in Data Science conference to the Middle East,” said Judy Logan, Co-Director of the Global Women in Data Science conference at Stanford University.
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Team Wins the Inaugural Women in Data Science Datathon
A team of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) students took first place in the inaugural Women in Data Science (WiDS) Datathon, a monthlong event that encourages women data scientists to engage in social impact solutions by participating in a predictive analytics challenge. Xi Lui and Ye Wang, both graduate students in WPI’s data science program, beat out more than 200 teams composed of students, faculty, and professional data scientists from 26 countries. “It was very interesting and also very challenging to compete with some of the top people in this field,” said Wang. “We were thrilled to win, but what we learned during the competition was much more important than the first-place outcome.”
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WiDS Nairobi 2018 - WiDS comes to Africa!
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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MIT News - Second annual Women in Data Science conference showcases research, explores challenges
Two hundred students, industry professionals, and academic leaders convened at the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the second annual Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference on March 5. The MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) co-hosted the event with Harvard University’s Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) and Microsoft Research New England, in partnership with Stanford University. The conference grew from 150 participants last year, and highlighted local strength in academics and health care. “The WiDS conference highlighted female leadership in data science in the Boston area,” said Caroline Uhler, a member of the WiDS steering committee who is an IDSS core faculty member and assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) at MIT. “This event is particularly important to encourage more female scientists in related areas to join this emerging area that has such broad societal impact.”
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WiDS La Paz 2018
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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“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
“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 Kaggle Comp 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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