Category: News

• ‘Creating Institutional Change in Data Science’ paper published

  

  A new paper intended for academic leaders who seek to accelerate data-intensive discovery and data science education on their campuses has been released. It is based on the experiences of the three institutions (New York University; University of California, Berkeley; and the University of Washington) in the Data Science Environments effort sponsored by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and…

• 2017 Moore Sloan Data Science Summit held in New Orleans

  

  By Robin Brooks Over 120 people attended the Moore Sloan Data Science Summit Nov. 5 – 8, 2017, in New Orleans, LA. The conference, held to foster collaboration as part of the Moore Sloan Data Science Environments initiative, featured workshops, networking events, career development activities, seminars, lightning talks and much more. Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows,…

• Blog: My eScience experience

  

  By Kivan Polimis I heard about the eScience Institute in the fall of 2014, during my first quarter at the University of Washington (UW), and was immediately drawn in by the Institute’s inclusive approach. That mention was a bulletin for the spring 2015 Community Data Science Workshop (CDSW), an outreach program run by eScience and…

• Postdoctoral fellows join eScience team

  

  By Robin Brooks The eScience Institute has recently welcomed 14 new Moore-Sloan Data Science and Washington Research Foundation Innovation in Data Science Postdoctoral Fellows representing 13 different departments on campus, and a breadth of research and technical specializations. Fellows hail from across the country and around the world. This cohort joins a well-established community of affiliated…

• Welcome from Director Magdalena Balazinska

  

  Dear eScience team and community, The new school year is in full gear and the eScience Institute is once again the place on campus where researchers come to learn about the latest data science tools and methods and to network with their interdisciplinary collaborators. I would first like to thank our team and community for…

• 2017 Geohackweek a collaborative success

  

  By Anthony Arendt, data scientist and Geohackweek organizer The University of Washington’s eScience Institute hosted the second annual Geohackweek Sept. 11 – 15, 2017. Inspired by AstroHackWeek and Neurohackweek, the conference combined tutorials with group work (“hacks”) on computational projects in geospatial sciences. With the help of over 20 instructors, the event offered tutorials in open-source vector…

• Fall Welcome Event

  

  By Robin Brooks The eScience Institute held its annual Fall Welcome Event Oct. 2, 2017, in the WRF Data Science Studio. Dozens of students, faculty and staff members enjoyed a warm welcome from Magdalena Balazinska, director of the Institute, with additional presentations by David Beck, director of research, and a keynote speech by Sasha Aravkin, data…

• Neurohackweek: an international collaboration

  

  By Ariel Rokem, data scientist and Neurohackweek organizer Forty graduate students, postdocs, research staff and faculty took part in Neurohackweek 2017, including international attendees from Turkey, Russia, Canada, the United Kingdom and Denmark. The neuroscience conference, which ran Sept. 4 – 8, kicked off with a talk by Russ Poldrack (Stanford University) posing the problems of…

• Data Science for Social Good in the news

  

  By Robin Brooks The Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) final project presentations happened on Aug. 17, 2017, on the Seattle campus. The fellows presented on the results of their projects over a two-hour period to a crowd of more than 100 people, including UW affiliates, community members and members of the press. King 5…

• 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…