WID Hubs

REU/Undergrad only Data Carpentry
2025-06-04 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-06-03 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-06-02 09:00 - 12:30 (America/Chicago) | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
Fundamental Data Skills Workshop. Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners' existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-06-02-uwmadison-reudc/

Geospatial Data Carpentry Workshop
2025-06-03 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-02 13:00 - 17:00 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
Fundamental Data Skills Workshop. The goal of this workshop is to provide an introduction to core geospatial data concepts and dive into working with raster/vector data, including how to open, work with, and plot vector and raster-format spatial data in R. Additional topics include working with spatial metadata (extent and coordinate reference systems), reprojecting spatial data, and working with raster time series data. This lesson assumes you have some knowledge of R.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.ed
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-06-02-uwmadison-dc-geospatial/

UW Research Software Engineering (RSE) Community town hall
2025-05-27 09:00 - 10:30 | Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, DeLuca Forum
Join the community and connect with others interested in Research Software Engineering (RSE) at the first UW RSE community town hall.
The goal of the UW RSE community is to share ideas, methods, and best practices to improve the way we do and share research. The UW RSE community is open to anyone at UW–Madison engaged in, or interested in, research software engineering.
CONTACT: rbemowski@wisc.edu

Intro to Deep Learning with Keras
2025-05-22 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-05-21 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-05-20 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-05-19 09:00 - 12:30 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
Hands-on introduction to the first steps in deep learning. This introduction covers the basics of deep learning in a practical and hands-on manner, so that upon completion, you will be able to train your first neural network and understand what next steps to take to improve the model. We start with explaining the basic concepts of neural networks, and then go through the different steps of a deep learning workflow.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-05-19-uwmadison-DeepLearningKeras/

ML+Coffee: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) & SQLDeps
2025-05-07 09:00 - 11:00 | 1145 Discovery Building
CONTACT: endemann@wisc.edu
URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepL9Gzq3brXGRdKO8_OqVr5hmX4oTHD31tjfLl_Uvur8ONiA/viewform?usp=sharing

Generative AI From Multiple Perspectives
2025-05-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
ML+X: Machine Learning Beyond Traditional CS Fields.
CONTACT: endemann@wisc.edu
URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepL9Gzq3brXGRdKO8_OqVr5hmX4oTHD31tjfLl_Uvur8ONiA/viewform?usp=sharing
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92639425571?pwd=[REDACTED]

Text Analysis Workshop
2025-05-01 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-04-30 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-04-29 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-04-28 09:00 - 12:30
Practical introduction to text analysis, designed for those with Python experience. Join this workshop for a practical Introduction to Text Analysis, designed for those with Python experience (how to create functions, for loops, conditional logic, use the pandas library, etc.). The workshop covers Natural Language Processing (NLP) basics, API usage, data preparation, document/word embeddings, topic modeling, Word2Vec, Transformer models using Hugging Face, and ethical considerations. Students and researchers working in the digital humanities are especially encouraged to attend!
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-04-28-uwmadison-textanalysis/

WID Seminar Series - Schloss Visual Reasoning Lab
2025-04-29 13:00 - 14:15 | 3rd Floor Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
Perceptual Semantics for Visual and Haptic Communication. Join us for our final WID Seminar of the year with:
Kushin Mukherjee and Anna Chinni from the Schloss Visual Reasoning Lab as they present "Perceptual Semantics for Visual and Haptic Communication." Special introduction by Claudia Solís-Lemus, Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology. Light refreshments served.
CONTACT: 316-4325, lredeagle@wisc.edu
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96326864622

Getting Started with High Throughput Computing
2025-04-08 10:30 - 12:00 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
New to high throughput computing or need a refresher?. Join our “Getting Started with High Throughput Computing” workshop, where we’ll introduce CHTC’s High Throughput Computing system, components of a job, and how to handle data. In this workshop, users will practice how to transfer data, submit jobs, and debug simple job errors. A basic understanding of the command line is recommended.
CONTACT: chtc@cs.wisc.edu
URL: https://chtc.cs.wisc.edu/events/2025/04/getting-started-htc
ONLINE: https://chtc.cs.wisc.edu/events/2025/04/getting-started-htc

Harnessing the Power of Foundation Models for Healthcare and Life Sciences
2025-04-01 12:00 - 13:00 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
ML+X: Machine Learning Beyond Traditional CS Fields.
CONTACT: endemann@wisc.edu
URL: https://forms.gle/jBP4jSm8Y45vsVVF6
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92639425571?pwd=[REDACTED]

Health Sciences Data Carpentry
2025-03-27 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-26 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-25 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-24 13:00 - 17:00 | 1248 Health Sciences Learning Center
Fundamental Data Skills Workshop. Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners' existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-03-24-uwmadison-dc/

Intermediate Research Software Development with Python
2025-03-27 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-03-26 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-03-25 09:00 - 12:30 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-03-24-uwmadison-intermedpython/it

Health Sciences Data Carpentry
2025-03-25 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-03-24 09:00 - 13:00 | 3330 Health Sciences Learning Center
