Mission Statement
The eScience Institute empowers researchers and students in all fields to answer fundamental questions through the use of large, complex, and noisy data. As the hub of data-intensive discovery on campus, we lead a community of innovators in the techniques, technologies, and best practices of data science and the fields that depend on them.
Specifically, we:
1. Bring expertise and help researchers at UW to leverage data science tools, methods, and best practices in their research and in their grant proposals.
2. Are data science experts and, in collaboration with faculty at UW, advance the state-of-the-art in data science methods and in domain sciences that benefit from them.
People
The eScience Institute is made up of a diverse group of individuals with backgrounds in physics, astronomy, bio-engineering, bioinformatics, data management techniques, and computer science, who act as matchmakers, helping researchers apply the most appropriate technology to their research.
Data Science Environment Working Groups
The Moore/Sloan Data Science Environment is organized broadly into six working groups: Career Paths and Alternative Metrics, Education and Training, Software Tools, Environments, and Support, Reproducibility and Open Science, Data Science Studies, Working Spaces and Culture. Working Group leads are from the eScience Steering Committee, but participants are drawn from all over campus.
Video
Watch a short video on YouTube to learn about what we do here at the Institute.
