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Please feel free to email Ben Best ([email protected]) with your Github user account name if you have any interest in contributing to the content on this site (which we highly encourage ;).

Community Resources

• Santa Barbara Data Science (Santa Barbara, CA) - Meetup
• Santa Barbara R Users Group (Santa Barbara, CA) - Meetup
• Santa Barbara Machine Learning Meetup (Santa Barbara, CA) - Meetup
• Machine Learning and Data Mining | UCSB Computer Science

2nd Meeting

• timing | Doodle
• Ben: walk through Git and GitHub with RStudio
• Steven: journal article recommender app
• unconference pitch and organize further meeting ideas (projects, tutorials...). Can start with sticky analog style, and later migrate to submitting github issues a la NCEAS CodeFest sessions/issues

Meeting Ideas

• Kaggle R Tutorial on Machine Learning | DataCamp: 1 hour, online embedded R. Others: Getting Started with R - Titanic: Machine Learning from Disaster | Kaggle
  • Titanic with Julia - Of Data Monsters
  • Identify endangered right whales in aerial photographs | Kaggle
  • Ocean Ship Logbooks (1750-1850) | Kaggle
• neural networks & trippy images: Google Research blog #1 explanation, #2 example as iPython notebook in Github repo google/deepdream
• Kaggle competitions
• data visualization (word clouds anyone?)
• analyzing your journal articles
• interactive campus map
• analyzing open Santa Barbara or UCSB data
  • FoodBank SB County. Melissa Fontaine presented on behalf of FoodBankSBC at SB Data Science Summer Ignite Talks (2015-06-23) and expressed interest in going from xls to cooler visualizations. Jogged memory of a cool map & stats example for FeedingTexas.org with code freely available in github thinkshout/feeding-texas based on the ThinkShout philosophy on nonprofits & open-source.

Resources

Here's a semi random collection of resources.

• R
  • CRAN Task View: Machine Learning & Statistical Learning
• Python
  • scikit-learn: machine learning in Python
  • Getting Started With Python For Data Science | Kaggle
  • scikit-learn video tutorials | Kevin Markham, who also won justmarkham/kaggle-pycon-2015 | github
• Diffbot: extract data as JSON from any web page

TODO

• logo, like data wave / neural network trippy images + ucsb logo