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The official Jupyter Conference
August 22-23, 2017: Training
August 23-25, 2017: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Gunjan Baid

Gunjan Baid
Student, UC Berkeley

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Gunjan Baid is a student at University of California, Berkeley. She completed her bachelor’s degree in computer science and biochemistry and is now pursuing a master’s degree in computer science with a research focus on computational biology. Gunjan is associated with the undergraduate Data Science education program, where as a student instructor, she worked with Jupyter notebooks in the classroom and now provides technical support for the program’s JupyterHub infrastructure.

Sessions

5:00pm–5:40pm Thursday, August 24, 2017
Data science at UC Berkeley: 2,000 undergraduates, 50 majors, no command line
Usage and application
 Location: Sutton Center/Sutton South Level: Non-technical
Gunjan Baid (UC Berkeley), Vinitra Swamy (UC Berkeley)
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Engaging critically with data is now a required skill for students in all areas, but many traditional data science programs aren’t easily accessible to those without prior computing experience. Gunjan Baid and Vinitra Swamy explore UC Berkeley's Data Science program—2,000 students across 50 majors—explaining how its pedagogy was designed to make data science accessible to everyone. Read more.
11:05am–11:45am Friday, August 25, 2017
Meet the Expert with Gunjan Baid (UC Berkeley)
Location: O'Reilly Booth - Table 1
Gunjan Baid (UC Berkeley)
Chat with Gunjan about the use of Jupyter notebooks in education and how to use these tools more effectively in classrooms. Read more.