The Data Science Seminar is a university-wide effort bringing together thought-leading speakers and researchers across campus to discuss topics related to data analysis, visualization and applications to domain sciences. The seminar is held on Wednesdays 3:30-4:30pm in 420 Mary Gates Hall.

All talks are free and open to the public.

Spring 2014 Speakers

Apr 16

People, Data and Analysis
Pat Hanrahan
Professor, Stanford University & Co-Founder, Tableau Software

Apr 23

Hal Varian
Chief Economist, Google

May 21

Arfon Smith
Scientist, GitHub & Co-Founder, Zooniverse

Fall 2014 Speakers

TBA

Jon Kleinberg
Professor, Cornell University

TBA

Jure Leskovec
Professor, Stanford University

TBA

Martin Wattenberg & Fernanda Viégas
Directors of the "Big Picture" Visualization Group, Google

Organization

This seminar is organized by the eScience Institute, iSchool DataLab, and the Interactive Data Lab. We are grateful for the support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research.