Middle Tennessee Data Science Meetup with Kirk Borne
Date and Time
Thursday Apr 22, 2021
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CDT
April 22nd from 5:30PM to 6:30PM
Location
http://bit.ly/dsmeetup2021
Fees/Admission
FREE
Website
Contact Information
Charles Apigian
Director of the Data Science Institute
Middle Tennessee State University
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Description
A Simple Lesson in Data Literacy for Data Scientists and other People with Kirk Borne (Data Scientist and Top Worldwide Data Science Influencer). Join us for the return of Kirk Borne, who joined in September 2019, in Nashville. This time we will have a conversation that looks at making data literacy for not only data scientists prevalent but also for the everyday professional. In addition to being a top big data influencer, he was professor of astrophysics and computational science at George Mason University (GMU) for 12 years. He served as undergraduate advisor for the GMU data science program and graduate advisor in the computational science and informatics Ph.D. program. Kirk spent nearly 20 years supporting NASA projects, including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope as data archive project scientist, NASA’s Astronomy Data Center, and NASA’s Space Science Data Operations Office. He has extensive experience in large scientific databases and information systems, including expertise in scientific data mining. He was a contributor to the design and development of the new Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, for which he contributed in the areas of science data management, informatics and statistical science research, galaxies research, and education and public outreach. Borne discusses how data science can help all kinds of industries — from Fortune 500 companies trying to make use of a massive database to NASA’s discoveries of hundreds of previously unknown galaxies and exoplanets.