ng-data-club

Notes from first meeting

• Time slot, lunchtime, 12:00-12:45 seems good
• Room, TBC (depending on availability)
• General mix of sessions that address “questions” and “available tools/techniques” sounded good to people
• There were lots of good suggestions for what to cover

Suggested Topics

• Missing data
• Visualization
• code/data sharing
• Stat tests
• Linear regression (MvR)
• Bugs
• Code style guide (MvR)
• Software tools
• Pandas
• Bring You Own Problem (BYOP)
• DAGs / directed ayclic graphs
• inferring causality from non-experimental data (e.g., selection models, instrumental variables, difference-in-difference)

Initial Schedule

1. 2022-11-30: Tomas: julia and code sharing

2. 2022-12-07: Helen, Bring your own problem, BYOP (data visualisation)

3. 2022-12-14: Hazem, thinking about, choosing appropriate statistical tests

Future

• Roni & MvR: Hidden Markov Models

• Denis & Jan: mixing code and writing; documents, webpages, presentations

Actions

• send e-mail with details of upcoming meetings to lp-notug [ds]
• sort out recurring room [ds]
• consider moving emails/discussion to Teams [ds, maybe after away day in 2023]