Bay Area data science people, events

A quick favor: I'm headed out to Palo Alto for a family event in a couple weeks.  While I'm there, I'd love to meet people and find out more about the Bay Area data science scene.

Where should I go?  Who should I meet?

I'm free mainly on Monday the 11th through Wednesday the 13th, with some time on Tuesday evening here.

This picture is the first result for gImages: "going to the big city."  I like it.

Live streaming of Northeastern/Harvard/MIT workshop on computational social science @ IQSS, May 30-June 1

Tomorrow, IQSS is running a conference on computational social science.  I can't attend this year, but the conference organizers have kindly offered to livestream the sessions.  Here's the email from David Lazer.

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Hi all,

Please note that we will be live streaming the workshop on computational social science (program below).  The url:

http://video.isites.harvard.edu/liveVideo/liveView.do?name=Comp_Soc_Science

The Twitter hashtag is:  #compsocsci12.  We will monitor this hashtag during the workshops to enable remote Q&A.

If you would like to embed the stream in your website, use this code:

<iframe src="http://video.isites.harvard.edu/liveVideo/liveEmbed.do?name=Comp_Soc_Science&width=auto&height=auto" width="640" height="360" style='border: 0px;'></iframe>

Please feel free to forward this e-mail on to interested parties, and if this has been forwarded to you, and you would like to be added to the list, please contact m.lee@neu.edu.

best,

David

Will crunch numbers for food

I don't like self-promotion.  Makes me feel greasy, if you know what I mean.  But graduation is looming, it's a boom year for big data, and there's no hiring pipeline from political science to fun tech jobs in tech. So I figure it's time to hang out my shingle as a data scientist.

Earlier this week, I bought the domain name abegong.com and worked up a digital resume.  Like I said, I'm not a big self-promotion guru, so I'd be grateful for feedback (or job leads).