Data Driven Discovery Initiative
The University of Pennsylvania’s hub for data science education and research in the School of Arts & Sciences
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Careers in Data Science Panel
DDDI and Center for Alumni Mentoring Services (CAMS) will be co-hosting a Data Science Career Panel on March 26th. Join us for an opportunity to learn more about data-driven careers from professionals across a wide range of industries.
Call for DDDI Postdoctoral Fellowship Applications
Applications are now open for the 2024/2025 DDDI Postdoctoral Fellowship cycle! The fellowship opportunity is open to postdocs in the School of Arts & Sciences who use data science as a significant part of their research methodology. We encourage postdocs across the natural and social sciences to apply!
AI Literacy Interest Group (Session 2)
Join the Research Data & Digital Scholarship librarians on Feb. 27th for the second session in a series of interdisciplinary events with speakers, discussions, and hands-on projects centered around the basic concepts, applications, and societal implications of generative AI.
Gen AI for Social Good Award
DDDI honors Penn graduate students Shriya Ramakrishnan, Manvi Kaul, Emma Jin, and Zahra Khodakarami with the Generative AI for Social Good Award for their Gen AI hackathon project, a personal AI assistant for the estimated 17 million people living with cerebral palsy.
AI Literacy Interest Group
Join the Research Data & Digital Scholarship librarians for a series of interdisciplinary events with speakers, discussions, and hands-on projects centered around the basic concepts, applications, and societal implications of generative AI. The inaugural panel is February 13th.
Generative AI Hackathon
Sign up for Penn’s first Generative AI Hackathon! The hackathon is a university-wide two day event (2/16-17) in Tangen Hall for Penn students to learn, build, and create Gen AI based applications. No AI or hackathon experience required. Apply by February 9, 2024 to get involved.
Cultures of Datafication in & across South Asia
A collaborative workshop taking place at Penn on April 12-13, 2024, to bring together interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners to discuss historical and emergent trajectories of data-driven knowledge production in South Asia. The deadline to submit an abstract is January 31, 2024.
IC2S2 Call for Abstracts and Tutorials
The 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) is now inviting abstracts and tutorials from scientists working at the frontiers of social, computational, complexity, and network science! DDDI is thrilled to sponsor the IC2S2 conference this summer, July 17-20.
Data Scientists @ Penn
The DDDI, in collaboration with the RDDS, is initiating a Data Scientists at Penn Introductory Event. This event which will bring together practitioners of data science, engineering, and visualization from across the University who often work in isolated clusters on these topics.