T2: Data Science for Physicists I

Data Science is playing an ever increasing role in physics. While some departments have offered courses, many of the examples are in the context of social science and other disciplines. In this tutorial, we will introduce data science in the physics context. We will start by introducing Jupyter notebooks and how to explore and visualize data. We will then introduce unsupervised learning techniques including clustering, random forests, etc. We will conclude with an introduction to neural networks and object tracking.

Topics covered:

• Data Visualization and Exploratory Data Analysis

• Unsupervised Learning

• Convolutional Neural Networks