Dr. Yang Wang

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT There will be a data science meetup on Weds. 3/6 at 6:30 pm. It will be located at CoWork Oasis. Dr. Gustavo Arriaga will be giving a talk/demo about identifying hotel renovations using machine learning. Topics covered include: NLP techniques (phrase modeling, topic modeling, etc.) Classification methods (Random forests, neural networks, etc.) Refreshments … Continue reading Identifying hotel renovations using machine learning

For my analytics students, JupyterLab Beta version has just been released. Follow the install instructions to install and read the documentation to run through its features. I think, for students coming from Excel/ other self-contained data packages, this is a great addition to Jupyter Notebooks. JupyterLab is now essentially an IDE where all your documents, … Continue reading JupyterLab Beta Released!

Many marketing students want to work in corporate social media upon graduation. After all, current graduates are much more familiar with this new world of marketing than many of the managers who are in the position to hire them. I think this Vice program says a lot about the social media world in which new … Continue reading The Shed at Dulwich

Money is perhaps the most critical man-made construct in our lives, yet we are often unaware of how it affects us and how we think about it. Are we genetically wired to be bad with money? Does our language affect how we use money? How does money motivate us? Does money change us? Can it … Continue reading All about money

Read the articles below and write your representatives in congress. Senator John Cornyn, Senator Ted Cruz, Rep. Beto O’Rourke, Rep. Will Hurd Tax plan implications on higher education   Continue reading House tax bill implications for students and their families

What? Career fair! When? Thursday & Friday Sept. 21-22, 2017! Where? Don Haskins Center! Why? So you can get paid! More than 100 employers will be on hand. Continue reading UTEP Career Fair!

El Paso Electric is currently recruiting for 3 distinct Accountant positions (please see linked job ads). Financial Systems – MBA/MAcc preferred Energy Accounting – BBA + 0-3 years of experience Accounting Services – BBA + 3 or more years of experience Apply online through their website at https://www.epelectric.com/careers Please let me know if you wish to list me … Continue reading EP Electric Hiring

***Update*** It looks like United has now implemented a bidding strategy for allocating seats over capacity: United got in hot waters today for “overbooking” a flight and then forcibly removing an elderly passenger from his seat. Almost any casual observer would say that they probably should have just offered a higher voucher amount. Why wouldn’t United … Continue reading A solution for United