Great timing! Just yesterday I was chatting with one of the volunteer mentors about this institute. Not surprisingly he had nice things to say. Look forward to the discussion.
Erik On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Steve MASOVER <maso...@berkeley.edu>wrote: > All, > > On Thurs 11/21 at noon in 200C (usual time and place), Dav Clark and Aaron > Culich will report back on a workshop taking place this week to recap the > work and accomplishments to date of the *Data Science for Social Good > Summer Institute <http://dssg.io/>*. > > The DSSG Summer Institute *is a University of Chicago summer program for > aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big > data, and data science projects with social impact.* > > As background for the report-back, please take a look at the four > attached, 1-page project descriptions addressed by DSSG fellows last > summer. A list of projects on the DSSG web site <http://dssg.io/projects/>is > also worth a look (it lists these four and quite a few others). > > See you on Thursday, > > Steve > > > > -- > Steve Masover > IST Research Information Technologies > maso...@berkeley.edu > 510-642-8488 > -- Erik Mitchell Associate University Librarian Director of Digital Initiatives and Collaborative Services University of California, Berkeley emitch...@berkeley.edu http://erikmitchell.info
