BIDS Events Calendar

Systemizing Investment Understanding at the World’s Largest Hedge Fund

Colloquium | April 25 | 12-1 p.m. | 306 Soda Hall

Speaker/Performer:  Alexander Valdes, Bridgewater, Co-Head Research Investment Engineering

Sponsor:  Data Sciences

Interested in designing and building systems to tackle complex, real-world problems? Curious to know what an investment system is and how it works? This talk shares how Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund, builds an understanding of macroeconomics and turns that into highly inspectable investment systems. We see this as one of the keys to continued success in this highly competitive...   More >

Berkeley Statistics and Machine Learning Forum

Meeting | April 29 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. | 1011 Evans Hall

Sponsor:  Berkeley Institute for Data Science

The Berkeley Statistics and Machine Learning Forum meets weekly to discuss current applications across a wide variety of research domains and software methodologies. All interested members of the UC Berkeley and LBL communities are welcome and encouraged to attend.

BIDS Data Science Lecture: Reinventing Expertise in the Age of Platforms: The Case of Data Science

Lecture | May 1 | 3:10-4 p.m. | 190 Doe Library

Featured Speaker:  Shreeharsh Kelkar, Interpretive Social Scientist, UC Berkeley

Sponsor:  Berkeley Institute for Data Science

"Data scientist,” so says the Harvard Business Review, is “the sexiest job of the 21st century.” What accounts for the prestige that this new professional mode of knowledge production now enjoys across institutions ranging from non-profits to research labs, corporations, hospitals, and schools? Based on a two-year ethnographic study ...   More >

'Information and Uncertainty in Data Science' Discussion Forum

Meeting | May 3 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 190B Doe Library

Sponsor:  Berkeley Institute for Data Science

The 'Information and Uncertainty in Data Science' Discussion Forum is a forum for open inquiry and discussion about a wide range of recurring data science fundamentals, including information, uncertainty, entropy, bits, probability, machine learning, generalization, and others. All interested members of the UC Berkeley, UCSF, LBL and LLNL communities are welcome and encouraged to attend.

BIDS Data Science Lecture: Hate speech, algorithms, and digital connectivity

Lecture | May 8 | 3-4 p.m. | 190 Doe Library

Featured Speaker:  Claudia von Vacano, Executive Director, D-Lab, UC Berkeley

Sponsor:  Berkeley Institute for Data Science

The Online Hate Index (OHI) is a research partnership between UC Berkeley’s D-Lab and Google Jigsaw that seeks to improve society's understanding of online hate speech (from sources such as YouTube, Reddit, Twitter and other social media sites), including its prevalence over time, ...   More >