NG data club

Schluppeck / van Rossum

2022-11-23

Where, when?

Meeting time + place

• Wednesday, 12:00-12:45, weekly
• a seminar room like this here? (or somewhere else?)

What

Could structure things according to

1. I want to answer the following question with my data… How do I do that?

2. I know the following technique, which could help you with [bla]…

3. Other format?

What 2

• Want to share knowledge of principles / intuition / maths background
• … but also practical advice:
  • tools
  • code snippets (multi-lingual?)

Padlet link + Team + resources

• https://padlet.com/denisschluppeck/ng_data_club
• MS Team (for chat / ad-hoc questions)
• github repo, gists (for sharing code )

Lots of potential topics

• PCA, ICA, related methods
• linear regression, basics of linear algebra?
• “dimensionality reduction”
• t-SNE
• basic ideas behind solving inverse problems
• how do people organise data, meta-data
• “Tidy Data” / tidyverse and related ideas (in r), Pandas (python), Tables (matlab). Long and wide data? select, filter, mutate, summarise (dplyr/sql syntax)
• logistic regression
• intro to bayesian stats/estimation?
• more machine learning stuff (svm, intro to deep learning models)
• RL?