UKC Data Science Workshop 2023

Data Science Workshop

“Machine Learning on Biomedical Data”

Open to all non-biomedical and biomedical backgrounds with some programming experience.

August 5, 2023, Saturday 1:30-6:00pm CT

This year’s Data Science Workshop (DSW) at UKC aims:

  • To provide a deeper hands-on experience with a crash course on data analysis, machine learning, and deep learning,
  • For those with some prior programming but no data science experience to those looking to expand their knowledge, and
  • For those without any biomedical background, as the techniques learned are domain and data agnostic.

Program

The data science workshop will be a team-based mini-project from start to finish of a data science problem using real-world biomedical data.  Participants will begin with data cleaning, build a machine learning model, and end with presenting their own trained model.  Instructors will assist teams of 2-3 participants on each mini-task to achieve the final goal of training a machine learning model and presenting it.  Participants should have some programming experience with Python preferred. The computing environment will be Google Colab and the dataset will be announced at the workshop. The program schedule tentatively includes:

1) Data Analysis of Tabular Biomedical Data (1:30-3:30pm)

  • Introduction to data science basics and machine learning concepts (e.g. definition of AI vs machine learning vs deep learning, supervised vs unsupervised, accuracy vs interpretability)
  • Hands-on review of data handling and machine learning models (e.g. logistic regression, random forests, gradient boosting, artificial neural networks) on real-world biomedical tabular data (such as breast cancer histopathology or cardiac ultrasound measurement data)

2) Machine Learning Modeling and Project Presentations (4:00-6:00pm)

  • Hands-on model building with code from templates and scratch using Python
  • Team presentations of model building and performance results
  • Bonus demonstration of deep learning models such as biomedical image classification using convolutional neural networks

Registration

The data science workshop registration is available within the UKC registration and requires an additional $70 fee for regular members and $35 fee for students. Late onsite registration is $80 for regular and $40 for students. Participants are required to bring a laptop.

Any questions may be addressed to the organizers at dsw.ukc@gmail.com.

Participant Reviews

  • “As a student in DS, it was a great opportunity to try the code and meet awesome professors and engineers. I love the fact that I was able to attend this in-person at Washington D.C. fly all the way from Washington State. It is definitely a valuable opportunity.” -Jiyeon Song (Student, UC San Diego), 8/2022
  • “The workshop is very good for someone who is starting data science-related research. Thanks a lot for this to the organizers!” -Yong-Rak Kim (Professor, Texas A&M University), 12/2020.
  • “What I liked about this workshop was that it appealed to those who either have a beginner or intermediate skill level with these topics. The important parts were explained thoroughly, and the instructors were clear in their direction. I have never worked with Convolutional Neural Networks, but after a brief 45-minute tutorial and walkthrough, it set the stage for learning more in the future. ” -Isaiah Kim (Technical Rotational Associate, USC) 12/2020.

Past Workshop Photos

Last Workshop (DSW at UKC2022 Washington D.C.)

In-Person Workshop (DSW at UKC2021 Los Angeles)

Coding using Google Colab in Python (DSW at UKC2020 Virtual)