Author: Sarah Stone

• Call for Invited Presenters – UW Data Science Seminar

  

  Call for Invited Presenters – UW Data Science Seminar – University of Washington Seattle  We are inviting applications for guest presenters for the UW Data Science Seminar, an annual lecture series at the University of Washington that hosts scholars working across applied areas of data science, such as the arts, engineering, humanities and sciences along…

• NSF-funded CloudBank Now Operational

  

  The eScience Institute at the University of Washington; the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego; the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society at UC Berkeley; and Strategic Blue have entered production operations of the CloudBank program, which aims to simplify the use of public clouds across computer science…

• Data Science for Social Good launches projects on polarized voting and online disinformation

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell On June 15th, the University of Washington’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program began with eight fellows working on two project teams in collaboration with data scientists from the eScience Institute and project leads from academic institutions and nonprofit organizations. Student fellows joined the program from colleges and universities around…

• New eScience Director Andrew Connolly

  

  We are delighted to announce that Astronomy Professor Andrew Connolly has been selected as the new Director of the eScience Institute. Andy has been involved since the early days of eScience as a member of the original Steering Committee and as a member of the Executive Committee since its inception in 2013. Andy has played…

• eScience takes on 7 projects in the 2020 Winter Incubator program

  

  The goal of the Winter Data Science Incubator is to enable new research discoveries by bringing together data scientists and domain scientists to work on focused, intensive, collaborative projects. Our team of data scientists provide expertise in state-of-the-art technology and methods in large-scale data manipulation and analytics, cloud and cluster computing, statistics and machine learning,…

• Participants reflect on Geohackweek 2019

  

  October 15, 2019 The University of Washington’s eScience Institute hosted its fourth annual Geohackweek on September 9-13, 2019. A diverse mix of 45 participants joined us from industry, academia, government and non-profit organizations to advance our understanding of open source software tools for geoscientific research. The event was designed around the hackweek model which aims…

• Reflections on five years of the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments

  

  April 10, 2019 The Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments (MSDSE) program, established jointly by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, was launched in 2014 to foster and enhance data-intensive discovery at academic institutions.  The program initially funded three data science environments for five years (recently extended for an additional two…

• Social Good Summer Blog, issue five

  

  This summer series will highlight weekly blog posts from this year’s UW Data Science for Social Good Fellows. “From the classroom to the real-world: using data science to approach inequality” by Haowen Zheng, 2018 Data Science for Social Good Fellow I am a student fellow in this year’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program…

• Social Good Summer Blog, issue one

  

  This summer series will highlight weekly blog posts from this year’s UW Data Science for Social Good Fellows. Scroll down to read posts by Kellie MacPhee and Joe Abbate. “Being right” by Kellie MacPhee, 2018 Data Science for Social Good Fellow In mathematics, right and wrong are clearly distinguishable. Sure, there are questions of style and…

• Meet the 2018 Data Science for Social Good fellows

  

               The eScience Institute is pleased to welcome 15 talented student fellows to our summer 2018 Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program which kicks off Monday, June 11. The DSSG fellows hail from universities across the United States and represent a diversity of disciplines including public policy, linguistics, sociology, mathematics, and biology…