Aug 22 in ATX: Data Science Ethics
The Forrest Four-Cast: August 19, 2019
At 7:00 pm on Thursday, August 22 in Austin, Galvanize hosts the presentation “Have we Sacrificed Autonomy for Certainty.”
Data science has fundamentally changed the way we interact with the world. From navigation around town, picking the books we read, or restaurants we dine at, analytic models relieve our cognitive load. However, this relief comes at a cost, as we are increasingly forgoing the right to make choices independent of the crowd.
The presenter for this lecture is Dr. Joseph A. Gartner III, a principal data scientist and data science instructor at Galvanize. His most recent work saw him contributing to the DARPA XData project where he focused on the large scale natural language processing, and graph representation of text data for the purpose of event detection.
Admission to the August 22 is free (but register here to ensure your spot). Galvanize Austin is located at 119 Nueces Street. Doors open and networking begins at 6:15 pm.
Innovation-Focused Events in Austin for the Week of August 19
August 19: Angular Austin Meet Up
August 19: Austin Blockchain Collective Community Meet Up
August 19: Introduction to Product Management
August 19: Austin Elixir Meet Up
August 19: Learn to Code: Arrays & Objects
August 20: Capital Factory Accelerator Info Session
August 20: Evening of Python Coding
August 20: Austin Technology Council Roundtable: Engineering Leadership
August 20: Austin Job Seekers Meet Up
August 21: AWS (Amazon Web Services) AI & ML Workshop
August 21: Founders Live Meet Up!
August 21: EdTech Austin Meet Up
August 21: How to Make Videos on Your Phone in Minutes
August 21: Introduction to Coding: HTML & CSS
August 21: Austin DJ’s Meet Up
August 22: Austin Mosaic Awards
August 22: Austin Sales & Business Development
August 22: NonProfit Tech Club Austin
August 22: Have We Sacrificed Autonomy For Certainty?
August 24: Introduction to Data Science
More Upcoming Austin Innovation Events
August 28: Army S&T Summit Networking Social
Sept 6: SXSW Community Service Awards entry deadline
Sept 6: SXSW Pitch early entry deadline
Sept 6: SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards early entry deadline
Sept 6: Salman Rushdie Book Reading
Sept 9: Austin Fast Start Mobility Innovation Pitch Event
Sept 11: Mark McClain of SailPoint at ACG Central Texas
Sept 14: ContentATX3
Sept 19: Mighty Big Day
Sept 19: EquitySpace: Designing for an Inclusive Community
Sept 19–21: Creatives Meet Business Experience 2019
Sept 30-Oct 1: ARTIFACT
Oct 2–4: ComNet 19
Oct 4–6: Austin City Limits Festival, Weekend 1
Oct 11–13: Austin City Limits Festival, Weekend 2
Oct 26–27: Texas Book Festival
Nov 4–8: Austin Design Week
Nov 6: SpaceATX
Nov 13–14: Time Machine 2019
Nov 19: InnoTech Austin
Nov 20: Invent & Innovate
Jan 12: 2020 Austin Startup Games
March 13–21: SXSW 2020
April 17–19: 2020 Austin Reggae Festival
Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW, the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.
