Category: News

• Data Science Environment Summit 2015

  

  This past week, data and research scientists, postdocs, faculty, and staff gathered from the University of Washington, Berkeley, New York University, and both the Moore and Sloan foundations for the annual Data Science Environment Summit. Hosted this year by UW’s eScience Institute, the gathering took place October 4th through 7th at Suncadia Resort, nestled in…

• NextSeattle: Innovating for Urban Social Challenges

  This past weekend undergraduate students from the University of Washington participated in a multi-day “ideathon” focused on important urban issues including equity and access to public space, public transportations as a public good, youth and homelessness, and big data for social good. The program’s purpose was to help attendees develop and learn to pitch ideas…

• eScience Fall Welcome

  Graduate students, postdocs, data scientists, faculty, and numerous others filled into the crowded seminar room at the WRF Data Science Studio yesterday afternoon for the eScience Fall Welcome. After opening remarks from eScience Director Ed Lazowska, brief presentations were made by Executive Committee member Magda Balazinska, followed by eScience’s data and research scientists, and the 2015 Joint…

• UW Partners with Seattle for Smart Cities Initiative

  UW Today is reporting that, as part of a new White House Smart Cities Initiative called The MetroLab Network, the University of Washington has partnered with the City of Seattle in joining “a new national network of university-city partnerships that will work on ‘smart city’ solutions.” “Great universities can’t succeed without great cities,” said UW…

• Data Science for Social Good – Final Presentations

  On Thursday, August 20th, the four project teams for eScience’s Data Science for Social Goodsummer program gathered one last time to make their final presentations in front of a room filled to capacity with distinguished guests. The culmination of ten weeks work now boiled down to thirty-minute presentations, and the recently-christened Data Science for Social…

• UW hosts NSF-sponsored Data Science Workshop 2015

  Data Science Workshop 2015, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, will be held at the University of Washington on August 5-7. The workshop will bring together 100 graduate students from across the nation, representing diverse science and engineering domains, to interact with data scientists from industry and academia. David Beck, the UW eScience Institute’s Director…

• Data Science for Social Good: Improving Service to Homeless Familes

  

  Authors: Fabliha Ibnat (UW eScience Institute DSSG intern), Chris Suberlak (UW eScience Institute DSSG intern), Jason Portenoy (UW eScience Institute DSSG intern), Joan Wang (UW eScience Institute DSSG intern), Xitlalit Sanchez (UW ALVA student intern), Cameron Holt (UW ALVA student intern), Neil Roche (BMGF, Data Scientist), Anjana Sundaram (BMGF, Data Officer), Bryna Hazelton (UW eScience Institute Research Scientist), Ariel Rokem (UW eScience Institute Data Scientist). We are living in an age where data plays…

• University of Washington Waives Indirect Cost on Cloud Services

  UW CSE News reports that UW has waived indirect cost on cloud services, removing disincentives to the selecting research computing and storage options. eScience Director Ed Lazowska writes: This decision removes one of several bizarre disincentives to the rational selection of research  computing and storage options – disincentives that plague universities nationwide.   Federal guidelines waive…

• Data Science for Social Good Project Midterms

  Last week the four project teams from our Data Science for Social Good summer program gathered in the WRF Data Science Studio to present project updates to eScience’s Executive Committee and other invited guests. It was a midterm, of sorts, to see how everything and everyone was coming along. Based on previous eScience incubator programs,…

• Preface to Python Data Science Handbook (Early Release)

  O’Reilly Publishing has released a preface to Python Data Science Handbook (Early Release) by Jake VanderPlas, eScience’s Senior Data Scientist and Director of Research, Physical Sciences. “What is data science?” VanderPlas writes. “It’s a surprisingly hard definition to nail down, especially given how ubiquitous the term has become. Despite its hype-laden veneer, [data science] is…