Month: March 2018
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Reflections on the 2018 Winter Incubator program
Nineteen project leads, eScience data scientists, and researchers participated in this year’s Winter Incubator program, which focused on projects in hydrology, political science, astronomy, atmospheric science and neuroscience. The five teams met over the course of 10 weeks to develop their projects, and presented their results on Mar. 13, 2018 in the WRF Data Science…
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Masters students finish course on governance analytics
Twenty-two students participated in the UW Evans School of Public Policy and Governance’s course “Computational Thinking for Governance Analytics” held in the winter quarter. The course was created and taught by professor Jose Manuel Magallanes, an expert on computational social science, who is a visiting professor and senior data science fellow whose presence at the UW…
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Hitting the mark: targeting strategy development for SDSS V with a robotic fiber positioning system
Project Lead: Jennifer Sobeck, APOGEE-2 project manager; Michael Blanton, associate professor, Department of Physics, New York University; and Jose Sanchez Gallego, research scientist, Department of Astronomy eScience Liaisons: Jacob VanderPlas In 2020, the fifth generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) will undertake a 5-year spectroscopic survey of over six million objects, building on…
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Political Twitter images project summary and goals
Project Leads: Nora Webb Williams, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science; Wesley Zuidema, PhD Student, Department of Political Science; John D. Wilkerson, Professor, Department of Political Science; and Andreu Casas, Moore Sloan Research Fellow, New York University eScience Liaison: Bernease Herman How do outsider political groups use social media to mobilize supporters online? What types of social…
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Incubating a DREAM
Project Leads: Christina Bandaragoda, senior research scientist, Watershed Dynamics Research Group, Civil & Environmental Engineering; Purshottam Shivraj, Data Science Master’s Student; Nicoleta Cristea, research associate, Mountain Hydrology Lab, Civil and Environmental Engineering eScience Liaisons: Amanda Tan and Rob Fatland Sparcity of temporal data in high elevations is a hurdle for every water resources researcher investigating…
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Deciphering climate clues via carbon flux simulation
Project Lead: Qiaoyun Peng, Department of Atmospheric Sciences eScience Liaisons: Amanda Tan and Rob Fatland Carbon and energy exchanges between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere are important drivers of the Earth’s climate system. The net carbon exchange results from a balance between ecosystem uptake (photosynthesis) and losses (respiration), which could be measured and quantified…
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Experimental diffusion analysis to extract tissue structure function in the diseased brain
Project Lead: Chad Curtis, PhD student, Chemical Engineering Department eScience Liaison: Ariel Rokem One highly underrepresented, but critically needed, area of study is inflammation-mediated central nervous system (CNS) disease. Inflammation in the CNS, mediated by activated microglia and astrocytes, is implicated in the development of several neurologic disorders in both children and adults. Strategies to…