Author: Louisa Gaylord
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eScience Co-Sponsoring SciPy 2015 Conference
The University of Washington eScience Institute is proud to announce a joint sponsorship of the 2015 Scientific Computing with Python conference with our partners at the Berkeley Institute of Data Science and the NYU Center for Data Science. This year’s conference takes place in Austin, Texas, July 6-12, and features Jake Vanderplas, eScience’s Director of…
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Data Science for Social Good Projects
The eScience Institute kicked off its inaugural Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program the week of June 15th. Modeled after similar programs at the University of Chicago and Georgia Tech, with elements from our own Data Science Incubator, the goal of the DSSG program is to enable new insight by bringing together data and…
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2015 WRF and Moore/Sloan Postdoctoral Fellows
The University of Washington’s eScience Institute is pleased to welcome the following WRF and Moore/Sloan Postdoctoral Fellows for 2015.
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Welcome New eScience Staff
Please join us in welcoming the following new staff members to the University of Washington’s eScience Institute.
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Community Data Science Workshops (Spring 2015)
The Community Data Science Workshops in Spring 2015 are a series of project-based workshops being held at the University of Washington for anyone interested in learning how to use programming and data science tools to ask and answer questions about online communities like Wikipedia, Twitter, free and open source software, and civic media. The workshops…
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UW Becomes Software Carpentry Partner
We are very pleased to announce that the eScience Institute at the University of Washington has become a partner of the Software Carpentry Foundation. Since its creation in 2008, the eScience Institute has worked to create the intellectual and physical infrastructure needed to meet the challenges of doing science in a world where new sources of large, complex, and…
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Undercurrents at the DSE Summit
Blog post by Brittany Fiore-Silfvast The Data Science Environment (DSE) Summit took place in beautiful Monterey, CA at the Asilomar Conference Center. The Summit brought together over a hundred participants across three universities (UW, UC Berkeley and NYU) involved in the Moore and Sloan Foundations’ Data Science Environment grant. As a data science ethnographer, I…
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UW “Trend in Engineering” Features Data Science
from UW CSE News: SeaFlow, a research instrument developed in the lab of UW School of Oceanography director Ginger Armbrust, analyzes 15,000 marine microorganisms per second, generating up to 15 gigabytes of data every single day of a typical multi-week-long oceanographic research cruise. UW professor of astronomy Andy Connolly is preparing for the unveiling of…
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UW CSE’s Jeff Heer is one of 14 Moore Foundation “Data-Driven Discovery Investigators”
from UW CSE News: The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation joined last year with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in a process that ultimately selected the University of Washington, UC Berkeley, and New York University as partners in a 5-year, $38.7 million collaborative effort to advance data-intensive discovery. The Moore Foundation has just announced the…
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TED Talk: What’s the Next Window into Our Universe?
Big Data is everywhere — even the skies. In an informative talk, astronomer Andrew Connolly shows how large amounts of data are being collected about our universe, recording it in its ever-changing moods. Just how do scientists capture so many images at scale? It starts with a giant telescope … What’s The Next Window Into…