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Python for Programming and Data Science Workshops
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
All Day
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M113 (LR4) Technological Institute
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The Python for Programming and Data Science Workshops will run July 18 through August 17, 2017. This event is organized by the Northwestern University Postdoctoral Forum (NUPF), the SPIE Student Group and NUIT Research Computing Services.
Being able to do programming and data science are useful interdisciplinary skills for any scientist. But learning these powerful, time-saving skills all by yourself might seem intimidating or sound like it could be a slow process. Our summer workshops will offer a concise, efficient introduction into to these skills, tailored specifically to PhD students and post-docs. At the end of our introductory series, you will be able to write your own Python code and feel comfortable manipulating and visualizing data sets and using databases. You'll gain foundational skills as well as the confidence to do more with your data and further your research.
These workshops aim to fill a skill gap that currently exists for PhD students and post-docs at Northwestern. We recommend undergraduates attend the two-week course NICO 101-0: Introduction to Programming for Big Data.
For more information and to register: data-science-summer-workshops.org
Program:
July 18th: Getting started with programming and Python.
July 25th: Further programming steps in Python.
August 3rd: Reading in data sets, manipulating and summarizing data with NumPy and pandas.
August 10th: Plotting with pandas and matplotlib, statistical and machine learning models.
August 17th: Databases, SQL query language for relational databases, creating a database, accessing databases from Python and through command line clients.
Location:
Room M113 (LR4) in the Technological Institute (Evanston campus)
Time
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
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M113 (LR4) Technological Institute Map
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Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
WED@NICO Fall Seminar Series returns on Sept 24th!
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
Details
The Wednesdays @ NICO Fall Seminar Series returns on September 24th and will run through November 12th, 2025. Please visit our web site in early September for detailed speaker information, talk titles and abstracts.
This fall, we are honored to host the following distinguished speakers:
9/24 - Emma Alexander, Dept of Computer Science, Northwestern University
10/1 - Sebastien Martin, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
10/8 - Tomer Ullman, Dept of Psychology, Harvard University
10/15 - Patrick Park, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
10/22 - Max Kreminski, Midjourney
10/29 - Elizabeth Gerber, Mechanical Engineering and Communication Studies, Northwestern University
11/5 - Julio Ottino, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University
11/12 - Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Google Research
Location:
In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option: TBA via Zoom
About the Speaker Series:
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems, data science and network science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between. Please visit: https://bit.ly/WedatNICO for information on future speakers.
Time
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)