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Mark Welden-Smith
Mark is the Program Manager for Community Engagement at the eScience Institute. His career has been spent with higher education and nonprofit organizations, most recently at the University of California, Santa Cruz as the Associate Director of Marketing, Events, and Technology for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions. Previous roles include communications and marketing for the…
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Brian Hur
Brian is currently an NLM postdoctoral fellow in the Biomedical Informatics and Engineering Department at the University of Washington. His research focuses on using Natural Language Processing for decision support in veterinary medicine and the applicability of developed methods to human clinical text. Dr. Hur holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Washington State…
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OceanHackWeek 2022
OceanHackWeek (OHW) 2022 concluded on August 19th after five days of collaborative data exploration, peer learning, and software development. Expanding on a successful hybrid event in 2021, OHW22 was a global virtual event with six regional satellites around the world to accommodate more diverse learning environment preferences, as well as to better address the demand for in-person…
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Reflecting on a Novel Year of Virtual Hackweeks
By: Jane Koh In early March 2020, as the dimensions of the Covid-19 pandemic started to become clear, the Waterhackweek organizing team was only three weeks out from hosting its in-person event when they made the tough decision to postpone the hackweek until August. They joined several other hackweeks, all faced with the challenge of…
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OceanHackWeek 2020 Reflections
The third annual OceanHackWeek (OHW) program was held entirely online on August 10th through 14th this year. The weeklong-program combines data exploration, peer learning and software development as participants dive into the interdisciplinary nature of oceanography, from genomics to global surface temperature. 47 OHW 2020 participants embraced Python and R, the two most widely used…
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Interview with archaeologist Ben Marwick
By Robin Brooks The pioneering archaeology work of Ben Marwick, data science fellow and member of the eScience Institute Steering Committee, has resulted in several high-profile publications and garnered lots of media attention. His paper “Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago” was published in Nature, and “sets a new minimum age for the…