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• Data Science for Social Good: Week Two – Welcome ALVA Students!

  The second week of eScience’s Data Science for Social Good summer program kicked off with the arrival students from Alliances for Learning and Vision for Underrepresented Americans (ALVA), a program that targets underrepresented students in a variety of disciplines for summer internships. The aim of ALVA is to give students first-hand, quality experiences to prepare…

• The Promise of Big Data: Q&A With eScience’s Andrew Connolly

  University of Washington’s Andrew Connolly recently spoke with UW Today’s Peter Kelley to discuss his work on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), calling it “one of the most exciting experiments in astrophysics today.” Connolly, a professor in UW’s Department of Astronomy as well as a member of the eScience Executive Committee, oversaw UW’s data…

• eScience Director Ed Lazowska Receives David B. Thorud Leadership Award

  eScience Founding Director and Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in UW’s Computer Science and Engineering, Ed Lazowska, was awarded the University of Washington David B. Thorud Leadership Award yesterday in a ceremony honoring 2015 recipients. “Ed has been a truly extraordinary leader for many years and in many settings – national, regional, institutional, and departmental.…

• eScience Co-Sponsoring SciPy 2015 Conference

  

  The University of Washington eScience Institute is proud to announce a joint sponsorship of the 2015 Scientific Computing with Python conference with our partners at the Berkeley Institute of Data Science and the NYU Center for Data Science. This year’s conference takes place in Austin, Texas, July 6-12, and features Jake Vanderplas, eScience’s Director of…

• Data Science for Social Good Projects

  

  The eScience Institute kicked off its inaugural Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program the week of June 15th. Modeled after similar programs at the University of Chicago and Georgia Tech, with elements from our own Data Science Incubator, the goal of the DSSG program is to enable new insight by bringing together data and domain…

• Welcome New eScience Staff

  

  Please join us in welcoming the following new staff members to the University of Washington’s eScience Institute.

• UW Becomes Software Carpentry Partner

  

  We are very pleased to announce that the eScience Institute at the University of Washington has become a partner of the Software Carpentry Foundation. Since its creation in 2008, the eScience Institute has worked to create the intellectual and physical infrastructure needed to meet the challenges of doing science in a world where new sources of large, complex, and…

• Blog Archive: Undercurrents at the DSE Summit

  Blog post by Brittany Fiore-Silfvast The Data Science Environment (DSE) Summit took place in beautiful Monterey, CA at the Asilomar Conference Center. The Summit brought together over a hundred participants across three universities (UW, UC Berkeley and NYU) involved in the Moore and Sloan Foundations’ Data Science Environment grant. As a data science ethnographer, I…

• Blog Archive: UW “Trend in Engineering” Features Data Science

  from UW CSE News: SeaFlow, a research instrument developed in the lab of UW School of Oceanography director Ginger Armbrust, analyzes 15,000 marine microorganisms per second, generating up to 15 gigabytes of data every single day of a typical multi-week-long oceanographic research cruise. UW professor of astronomy Andy Connolly is preparing for the unveiling of…

• Blog Archive: TED Talk: What’s the Next Window into Our Universe?

  Big Data is everywhere — even the skies. In an informative talk, astronomer Andrew Connolly shows how large amounts of data are being collected about our universe, recording it in its ever-changing moods. Just how do scientists capture so many images at scale? It starts with a giant telescope … What’s The Next Window Into…