Author: Sarah Stone

• Data Science for Social Good fellows meet in Vancouver

  

  By Robin Brooks The first Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative Summit took place on the University of British Columbia campus July 13 – 14. eScience Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) student fellows and project leads joined with UW faculty to meet their counterparts in UBC’s pilot DSSG program. Events included mid-term presentations by the four UW…

• 2017 Data Science Career Fair

  

  The 2017 UW Data Science Career Fair will be held on Monday, October 23 from noon to 5 p.m. in the HUB Ballroom. Multiple UW departments and programs are working together to create this opportunity for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs working in data science to connect with companies and research labs looking for permanent…

• Gender differences in self-citation

  

  Molly King of Stanford University along with colleagues from NYU and the UW, including Data Science Fellow Jevin West, recently wrote a paper investigating differences in self-citation practices between men and women. Using over 1.5 million papers in the JSTOR database published between 1779-2011, they found that men self-cite 56% more often than women do.…

• Viziometrics: a search engine for scientific images

  

  While good graphics are considered a critical component of an effective scientific paper, literature search engines have historically been text or citation based. This week the MIT Technology Review highlighted the first visual search engine for scientific diagrams – Viziometrics. The team behind this pioneering project includes Electrical Engineering Ph.D. student Po-Shen Lee, iSchool professor and…

• Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics

  

  Data Science Fellow Steven Brunton and colleagues recently published a paper in PNAS applying machine learning to dynamical systems and control in engineering. This work involves a novel approach to discovering governing equations from data. Video abstract:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSCa78TIldg Paper [open access]:  http://www.pnas.org/content/113/15/3932.abstract

• Monarch butterfly migration cues depend on the Sun

  

  Eli Shlizerman, Data Science Fellow and Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, and his biologist colleagues published a model for a sun compass used by monarch butterflies for navigation during their annual migration. Modeling data from butterfly neurons in the attennae and eyes, they identified that input cues from the Sun alone can…

• The Data Science Incubator: a unique environment for geospatial data science education

  

  Anthony Arendt, eScience Institute Data Science Fellow and Applied Physics Laboratory Senior Research Scientist, contributed an American Geophysical Union blog post about two Earth sciences projects that were part of the recently completed 2016 Winter Data Science Incubator. He notes that this program provides a novel approach to addressing the urgent challenge of offering education…

• Panama Papers Leak

  

  USA Today quoted eScience Associate Director Bill Howe  in an April 5th article about the 11.5 million documents recently leaked from a Panamanian law firm pertaining to hidden offshore accounts and business transactions. Howe notes that cloud computing as well as openly available software for translation, indexing, and data mining now make quick work of…

• Community-level data science and its spheres of influence: beyond novelty squared

  

  Brittany Fiore-Gartland and Anissa Tanweer Data science has many characterizations, but in academia it is often talked about as pushing the limits of both methodological and domain science, what Josh Bloom, a Professor of Astronomy at U.C. Berkeley, has referred to as “novelty squared”. Bloom sees this as the “great challenge of modern interdisciplinary scientific…

• A New Innovation Model for the 21st Century

  

  eScience Institute Founding Director Ed Lazowska, Senior Data Science Fellow Tom Daniel, and other UW leaders recently wrote an article describing how the “University of Washington…can serve as a model for research institutions across the country“. They highlight four UW campus institutes that, with support from the Washington Research Foundation, are pursuing cutting-edge research in…