Month: October 2017

• Welcome from Director Magdalena Balazinska

  

  Dear eScience team and community, The new school year is in full gear and the eScience Institute is once again the place on campus where researchers come to learn about the latest data science tools and methods and to network with their interdisciplinary collaborators. I would first like to thank our team and community for…

• 2017 Geohackweek a collaborative success

  

  By Anthony Arendt, data scientist and Geohackweek organizer The University of Washington’s eScience Institute hosted the second annual Geohackweek Sept. 11 – 15, 2017. Inspired by AstroHackWeek and Neurohackweek, the conference combined tutorials with group work (“hacks”) on computational projects in geospatial sciences. With the help of over 20 instructors, the event offered tutorials in open-source vector…

• Fall Welcome Event

  

  By Robin Brooks The eScience Institute held its annual Fall Welcome Event Oct. 2, 2017, in the WRF Data Science Studio. Dozens of students, faculty and staff members enjoyed a warm welcome from Magdalena Balazinska, director of the Institute, with additional presentations by David Beck, director of research, and a keynote speech by Sasha Aravkin, data…

• Neurohackweek: an international collaboration

  

  By Ariel Rokem, data scientist and Neurohackweek organizer Forty graduate students, postdocs, research staff and faculty took part in Neurohackweek 2017, including international attendees from Turkey, Russia, Canada, the United Kingdom and Denmark. The neuroscience conference, which ran Sept. 4 – 8, kicked off with a talk by Russ Poldrack (Stanford University) posing the problems of…