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• Call for Invited Presenters – UW Data Science Seminar

  

  Call for Invited Presenters – UW Data Science Seminar – University of Washington Seattle  We are inviting applications for guest presenters for the UW Data Science Seminar, an annual lecture series at the University of Washington that hosts scholars working across applied areas of data science, such as the arts, engineering, humanities and sciences along…

• OceanHackWeek 2020 Reflections

  

  The third annual OceanHackWeek (OHW) program was held entirely online on August 10th through 14th this year. The weeklong-program combines data exploration, peer learning and software development as participants dive into the interdisciplinary nature of oceanography, from genomics to global surface temperature. 47 OHW 2020 participants embraced Python and R, the two most widely used…

• DSSG Project Supports Equity in Voting District Boundaries

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell As states, counties, cities and school boards across the country prepare to re-draw their voting districts in 2021, a software package that is being updated through the Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program will help to ensure equal representation among constituents. Voting district boundaries are re-drawn after each Census to account for…

• DSSG Team’s Model Will ID Online Coronavirus Disinformation

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell While informative news articles about COVID-19 play a key role in fighting the pandemic, a range of erroneous blogs and articles with fake virus cures, political propaganda and conspiracy theories are also circulating online. A new open source tool being developed as a project in the eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social…

• Algorithmic Equity Toolkit

  

  By: Mike Katell We are extremely proud to introduce the Algorithmic Equity Toolkit, planned and co-designed as a project of the Data Science for Social Good program (DSSG) at the eScience Institute in the summer of 2019. The Algorithmic Equity Toolkit, or ‘AEKit,’ is a set of resources designed to help individuals better identify government…

• Data Science for Social Good launches projects on polarized voting and online disinformation

  

  By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell On June 15th, the University of Washington’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program began with eight fellows working on two project teams in collaboration with data scientists from the eScience Institute and project leads from academic institutions and nonprofit organizations. Student fellows joined the program from colleges and universities around…

• New eScience Director Andrew Connolly

  

  We are delighted to announce that Astronomy Professor Andrew Connolly has been selected as the new Director of the eScience Institute. Andy has been involved since the early days of eScience as a member of the original Steering Committee and as a member of the Executive Committee since its inception in 2013. Andy has played…

• eScience takes on 7 projects in the 2020 Winter Incubator program

  

  The goal of the Winter Data Science Incubator is to enable 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, statistics and machine learning,…

• Data Scientists & Researchers Gather for the 2019 Moore Sloan Data Science Summit

  

  By Jane Koh On November 5-8, 2019, a broad group of eScience community members flew down to Sante Fe, New Mexico for the annual Moore Sloan Data Science Summit. The conference served to bring together academic data scientists and researchers from a range of disciplines to share advancements in academic research, domain applications, and structural…

• Participants reflect on Geohackweek 2019

  

  October 15, 2019 The University of Washington’s eScience Institute hosted its fourth annual Geohackweek on September 9-13, 2019. A diverse mix of 45 participants joined us from industry, academia, government and non-profit organizations to advance our understanding of open source software tools for geoscientific research. The event was designed around the hackweek model which aims…