Schedule

The schedule of events and speakers for the 2025 Data Science Research Bazaar will be ready in early February. The Bazaar will be held March 19-20, with a Data Story Slam the evening of March 18. For reference, the 2024 schedule is below.

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

9-10am: Introduction

10-11am: Lightning Talks—Round 1

11am-12pm: Lightning Talks—Round 2

12-1pm: Lunch, with optional Collaborator Matching Lunch

1-2:30pm: Workshops and Interactive Discussions

  • Strategically Planning Your Data-Rich Collaborations
  • UW Badgervoltaics: Shaping Data in Action by Optimizing for Agriculture and Solar Production
  • AI for Scientists

3-5pm: Poster and Art Session

3:30-5pm: Interactive Discussion

  • Using R and Python in a Collaborative Research Project

Thursday, February 8, 2024

9am-12:15pm: Workshops and Interactive Discussions

  • 9-10:30am: Where’s Your Data and How to Get It?
  • 9am-12:15pm: Getting Started with Python for Analyzing Large Climate and Satellite Data
  • 9am-12:15pm: Introduction to Epistemic Network Analysis
  • 10:45am-12:15pm: Harnessing (Using) the Cloud for Data Science

12:15-1:15pm: Lunch

1:15-2:45pm: Workshops and Interactive Discussions

  • Career Panel
  • Let’s Talk About Open Software and Data: Open Source Program Office and Research Data Services
  • Planning for the UW and Wisconsin 2050 Grid: From Policies to Modellable Constraints

3-4:30pm: Closing Panel – 175th Anniversary Celebration – Data Science Research at UW-Madison: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going

Panelists:

  • Wil Fulwider, Extension
  • Corinna Gries, Center for Limnology: Environmental Data Institute
  • Florence Hsia, Department of History
  • Yea-Seul Kim, Department of Computer Sciences
  • Allison Kittinger, Open Source Program Office