Month: November 2015

• Jake VanderPlas: Mr. Most Insightful

  

  Jake VanderPlas is one of five winners of the 2015 Pronto Data Challenge.

• What It Means To Be A Smart City

  

  Recently, Seattle Channel paid a visit to the eScience Institute to discuss our involvement in the Smart Cities Initiative.

• Assessing Community Well-being through Open Data and Social Media

  

  Project Lead: Shelly Farnham, Third Place Technologies DSSG Fellows: Jordan Bates, Ryan Burns, Jenny Ho, Yue Zhou ALVA Students: Avery Glass, Jennifer Nino eScience Data Scientist Mentors: Bernease Herman, Bill Howe Our DSSG Fellows and ALVA students paired with Third Place Technologies to create neighborhood community report pages in the context of a hyperlocal, crowd-sourced community network. The objective was to…

• Ben Marwick On How Computers Broke Science

  

  eScience Data Science Fellow Ben Marwick, who is also Associate Professor of Archaeology at University of Washington, has an article published today in The Conversation about the problem that computers pose to reproducibility in science. “For most of the history of science, researchers have reported their methods in a way that enabled independent reproduction of…