Category: News

• 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…

• Testimonials from our Summer 2021 Hackweek Programs

  

  This year the eScience Institute hosted another summer of our hackweek programs, including OceanHackweek, SnowEx Hackweek and NeuroHackademy. The sudden shift to a remote setting in spring 2020 brought new challenges for our eScience research team, and we came away with some valuable lessons learned and ideas to incorporate into this year’s iterations of hackweeks.…

• Data Science for Social Good Team Builds Tools to Support Fairness in Computational Redistricting

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell This fall, Congressional leaders will begin the state redistricting process that takes place every ten years to reflect population changes captured by the U.S. Census. As the process gets underway, a team in the  University of Washington Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program is creating a resource guide to help nonpartisan…

• Data Science for Social Good: Exploring Geographic Factors of Seattle’s Minimum Wage Law

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell When the Seattle minimum wage law took effect in 2015, it dovetailed with an increase in housing prices as an influx of high-wage technology workers moved to the region. For an interdisciplinary team in the University of Washington Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program, this raises the question of whether some…

• Data Science for Social Good Program Launches for Summer 2021

  

  By: Emily Keller On June 14th, the University of Washington’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program began with eight student fellows working on two project teams in collaboration with data scientists from the eScience Institute and project leads from academic institutions. Student fellows joined the program from colleges and universities around the country.…

• Introducing the New Winter Incubator Projects for 2021

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord The eScience’s 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 computing,…

• Reflecting on a Novel Year of Virtual Hackweeks

  

  By: Jane Koh In early March 2020, as the dimensions of the Covid-19 pandemic started to become clear, the Waterhackweek organizing team was only three weeks out from hosting its in-person event when they made the tough decision to postpone the hackweek until August. They joined several other hackweeks, all faced with the challenge of…

• Academic Data Science Alliance 2020 Annual Meeting

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord The Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA) hosted their annual meeting from October 14th through 16th, which brought together data science methodologists and domain researchers from all disciplines and career stages to share breakthroughs and new approaches in data science research and education, with a strong emphasis on responsible data science. The virtual…

• Waterhackweek 2020 Reflections

  

  From August 31st to September 4th, 37 global participants logged on to take part in Waterhackweek (WHW) 2020. With the hackweek originally scheduled to take place in person in March, the organizers experienced the challenge of extending their efforts to recruit a new set of participants and experiment with ways of moving the collaborative event…

• Migrating the DSSG Summer Program to a Remote Setting

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell After five years of running the Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program in the eScience Institute’s open studio space – where project leads spend at least two days per week with full-time student fellows and in-house data scientists for ten weeks – the program has now completed its first successful…