Category: News

• Evolving the Hackweek Model with ICESat-2 2022

  

  By: Scott Henderson and Louisa Gaylord The eScience Institute hosts a variety of hackweeks every year, which are designed to immerse participants in collaborative project work around a specific topic. Hackweeks try to blend elements of a hackathon, where participants work collaboratively in project teams, with tutorials on a variety of data science topics in…

• Python for Humanities: an Intro for Researchers

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord Last week the eScience Institute and UW Libraries Open Scholarship Commons co-hosted a workshop called “Python, your personal research assistant” for participants studying the humanities to explore the Python programming language and how to use it as a tool to aid in qualitative humanities work. Led by eScience Technical Education Specialist Naomi…

• Mapping Fungal Relationships in Trees

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord Korena Mafune is a 2021 Washington Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the University of Washington’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where she studies the symbiotic interactions among plants, fungi, and bacteria. She received her PhD from UW’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, where she studied the root-associated fungal communities of…

• Winter School 2022 Program Wrap-Up

  

  The eScience Institute’s “Winter School on Data Science Tools” recently concluded, which was led by Senior Data Science Fellow Jose Manuel Magallanes, renowned Computational Policy Scientist from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, who is a visiting professor with support from the Evans School of Public Policy and the eScience Institute. The 2022 Winter School introduced…

• New Software Engineering Center to Accelerate Scientific Discovery at UW

  

  Software engineering is vital to Seattle’s emergence as a tech leader driving a local climate of innovation. The new Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) at UW’s eScience Institute will leverage local software engineering talent to advance scientific frontiers that will change the world around us and respond to the challenges that face humanity. The SSEC,…

• Announcing the 2022 Winter Incubator Projects

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord The eScience’s annual Data Science Incubator program kicked off last week, which enables new research discoveries by bringing together data scientists and domain scientists to work on focused, intensive, collaborative projects. Our team of data scientists provide expertise in state-of-the-art technology and methods in large-scale data manipulation and analytics, cloud and cluster…

• Data Science Minor Student Profile: Stefan de Villiers

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord The University of Washington hosted the Data Science Minor Showcase several weeks ago, an event for undergraduates to explore the curriculum offered as part of the Data Science Minor program that was launched in Fall 2020. The showcase featured UW faculty outlining the new courses they have developed for the Minor, personal…

• Data Science Minor Student Profile: Bonnie Du

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord Last Fall quarter, the University of Washington launched the Data Science minor program to bring data science to a wide range of undergraduates within and beyond the STEM fields. Data science is incredibly versatile because it brings together scientific processes and analytical tools, like deep learning and data visualization, to extract insights…

• Data Science for Social Good Teams Present Their Project Results

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell On August 18th, student fellows at the eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program presented the results of their 10-week summer projects on the topics of fairness in computational redistricting, and the impacts of Seattle’s minimum wage ordinance in relation to residential displacement and commuting patterns. The student fellows conducted…

• Pioneering New Platforms to Harness Astrophysical Data

  

  This week the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University announced a multiyear collaboration effort to create new software platforms to analyze large astronomical datasets generated by the upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). The open-source platforms are part of the new LSST Interdisciplinary Network for Collaboration and Computing — known as LINCC…