October GC Digital Initiatives workshops
Workshop: “Understanding (&) Building on the Web with HTML/CSS” Monday, October 22nd, 2018 – 6:30 – 8:30pm
What’s a website? How does it work, and how can I build one from scratch? This workshop will address these basic questions and more as you begin building on the web. This workshop will introduce participants to HTML and CSS, the two languages used to write nearly 80% of all websites (whose markup language is known). By the end of this workshop, students will have a better understanding of how the web works, and will have the tools to begin creating sites on the web from scratch!
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Workshop: “Understanding Machine Learning” Wednesday, October 24th, 2018 – 6:30 – 8:30pm
Machine learning is ever more present, both as a tool in many areas of academic research and as a technology that shapes modern society, an impact that is in itself a subject worthy of study. In this workshop we will start from the basics on what is a machine learning, model, its components and some key concepts to understand research in machine learning. The workshop will offer hands on examples of some machine learning models with the popular scikit learn toolkit (a python toolkit included in anaconda). I will also introduce concepts related to the problematics around machine learning in today’s world (model transparency, bias, etc).
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