Category: News

• Visualization Research Papers Catches Stephen Few’s Eye

  

  A blog posting on Perceptual Edge by data visualization expert Stephen Few features two papers that caught his eye at this year’s IEEE VisWeek Conference. The first, “Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations” (PDF), is co-authored by eScience Associate Director Bill Howe. In reviewing it, Few writes: “Voyager is a visual [exploratory…

• Predicting Poverty And Wealth From Mobile Phone Metadata

  

  Accurate and timely estimates of population characteristics are a critical input to…

• UW Research Science Team Takes 2nd in WSDM Cup

  

  Congratulations to Team Eigenfactor for taking 2nd place in the WSDM Cup Challenge.

• Jake VanderPlas: Mr. Most Insightful

  

  Jake VanderPlas is one of five winners of the 2015 Pronto Data Challenge.

• What It Means To Be A Smart City

  

  Recently, Seattle Channel paid a visit to the eScience Institute to discuss our involvement in the Smart Cities Initiative.

• Ben Marwick On How Computers Broke Science

  

  eScience Data Science Fellow Ben Marwick, who is also Associate Professor of Archaeology at University of Washington, has an article published today in The Conversation about the problem that computers pose to reproducibility in science. “For most of the history of science, researchers have reported their methods in a way that enabled independent reproduction of…

• UW to Help Lead NSF “Big Data Brain Trust”

  

  The eScience Institute is pleased to announce our participation with University of Washington as one of three West Coast co-leads selected by the National Science Foundation as part of four Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs the NSF is establishing around the country. The BDRI Hubs program stems from the 2012 White House National Big Data…

• Big Data Having Big Impact On Transportation

  A cover story in the Seattle Times highlights the positive impact University of Washington and Seattle are having in solving growing traffic problems in the Puget Sound region. The feature focuses on the numerous apps now available to help with one’s commute, along with the large amount of public and private data driving them —…

• Urban@UW Featured in UW Today

  There’s a great feature in UW Today about Urban@UW. From the article: “There are more than 200 UW faculty members working on urban topics, […] from geographers using GIS technology to address the complexities of homelessness to data scientists working on transportation challenges to teams of researchers working on food access and Seattle’s minimum wage.…

• IT Connect: Creating New Science with Amazon Web Services

  

  An article out this past week in IT Connect, Creating New Science with Amazon Web Services, focuses on PhD student Charlie Manzanares’ research in economics; specifically, looking at rich data sets to determine what “airline travel and pricing [would] look like today if major carriers had not been permitted to merge.” Earlier this year, the…