Organizations
UMAss Data Science Club
Our club strives to create a community for UMass Amherst undergraduates who share a common interest in data science. We aim to provide members with the experience they need to achieve their data science goals by conducting group projects, utilizing graduate school resources, providing career advice, and facilitating industry connections.
UMass Machine learning club
The place to learn all about ML at UMass Amherst. No experience necessary. We meet in the ILC on Mondays at 7PM for beginner lectures and Wednesdays at 7 PM for advanced lectures.
National Student Data Science Corps
The NSDC Institutional Chapter at University of Massachusetts Amherst was built with the aim to create a safe space where students and researchers from all studies can educate each other, share knowledge and techniques applying data science, and promote camaraderie.
BUILD UMASS
BUILD provides a venue for students to gain academic and practical knowledge about software development, web development, and tech consulting. We are BUILDING our community through the pro-bono services we offer to nonprofits, startups, and local businesses.
UMASS Girls who code
Girls Who Code is an international nonprofit dedicated to closing the gender gap in tech. Among 150+ other chapters on other campuses, College Loop @ UMass Amherst is an on-campus organization bringing new technical workshops, events, resources and support to women in tech!
EVENTS
Five College Datafest
DataFest is a nationally-coordinated undergraduate competition in which teams of up to 5 students work over a weekend to extract insight from a rich and complex data set. Previous years’ data sets have included crime data from the LAPD, dating data from eHarmony, and energy use data from GridPoint.
Datafest 2024 will take place from April 5-7 at UMass.
Voices of Data Science
With Voices of Data Science, our mission is to provide a platform to amplify the voices of data scientists, especially those from underrepresented communities. We aspire to build a strong and inclusive network of data scientists with a shared vision to use data science for common good. This year, we celebrate and showcase the success of data scientists from marginalized communities.
Voices of Data Science 2024 will take place in March.
