INFORMS Journal Club

Presenting the

at the University of South Florida

Every First Friday

(specific time depends on room availability)

Goals 

To promote...

• Peer-to-peer learning
• Self-directed education
• Mentorship
• New, cutting-edge and important papers
• Plus! Practical everyday research skills

Every month

• One recent paper with broad IE/OR impact
• One 15-minute "Tech Tip"
• One open, engaging, critical group discussion

Note: we'd like to say every month over lunch, but rooms are hard to reserve. So, we'll have to play it by ear...

How it works

1-4 weeks before:

• Open suggestions for the discussion paper & discussion leaders.

1 week before:

• Selected paper, discussion leader and Tech Tip presenter are announced.

First Friday of the month:

• Participants come to the Journal Club meeting having read the paper, ready to have a good conversation!

...and a lively, open, productive discussion ensues.

Following the

Three "Golden" Rules

Polite

Encouraging
Honest

Paper Topic Ideas

Important/new papers in

• Data Mining
• Health Care Analytics
• Optimization
• Operations Research
• Statistical/Machine Learning

Discussion Topic Ideas

Thinking and Talking About

• Research Methods
• Design of Experiments
• Experimental Set-Up
• Publication Strategies
• Implication of Findings
• Technical Explanations of Methods
• Context of Research within its Field

"Tech Tip" Ideas

Discussions and Tutorials On

• Packages and Languages
  • Like R, Julia, Python, GAMS, C++
• Programming Tips
• Research Computing Tips
• Tools for Reporting on Research
• Social & Professional Networking

Together we

Learn new techniques and methods,

share our knowledge,

promote collaboration,

learn from our experiences,

practice teaching and presenting,

stay up-to-date with the IE/OR field...

and provide a community for learning

Friday, February 6th 

Join Us

First Paper:

Do we need hundreds of classifiers to solve real world classification problems?

Journal of Machine Learning Research

http://jmlr.org/papers/v15/delgado14a.html

Tech Tip:

Building Great Models Quickly with "caret" and R

CUTR 202 - 4pm

More info online at

http://informs.eng.usf.edu