Month: August 2015
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Data Science for Social Good – Final Presentations
On Thursday, August 20th, the four project teams for eScience’s Data Science for Social Goodsummer program gathered one last time to make their final presentations in front of a room filled to capacity with distinguished guests. The culmination of ten weeks work now boiled down to thirty-minute presentations, and the recently-christened Data Science for Social […]
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UW hosts NSF-sponsored Data Science Workshop 2015
Data Science Workshop 2015, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, will be held at the University of Washington on August 5-7. The workshop will bring together 100 graduate students from across the nation, representing diverse science and engineering domains, to interact with data scientists from industry and academia. David Beck, the UW eScience Institute’s Director […]
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Data Science for Social Good: Improving Service to Homeless Familes
Authors: Fabliha Ibnat (UW eScience Institute DSSG intern), Chris Suberlak (UW eScience Institute DSSG intern), Jason Portenoy (UW eScience Institute DSSG intern), Joan Wang (UW eScience Institute DSSG intern), Xitlalit Sanchez (UW ALVA student intern), Cameron Holt (UW ALVA student intern), Neil Roche (BMGF, Data Scientist), Anjana Sundaram (BMGF, Data Officer), Bryna Hazelton (UW eScience Institute Research Scientist), Ariel Rokem (UW eScience Institute Data Scientist). We are living in an age where data plays […]