Category: News

• NeuroHackademy debuts successfully

  

  By Ariel Rokem, eScience senior data scientist More than 60 neuroscientists flocked to Seattle and the UW campus during the last week of July and the first week of August to participate in a two-week conference/summer school/hackathon. This event, held for the first time under its new name “NeuroHackademy”, evolved out of Neurohackweek, an event…

• Social Good Summer Blog, issue seven

  

  This summer series will highlight weekly blog posts from this year’s UW Data Science for Social Good Fellows. “Parallel worlds of pangolin conservation and Data Science for Social Good” by Hyeon Jeong Kim, Data Science for Social Good Fellow This summer I am working as a fellow in the Data Science for Social Good Program (DSSG)…

• 2018 Data Science Career Fair

  

  *Watch a video about the 2018 UW Data Science Career Fair on YouTube!* The 2018 UW Data Science Career Fair will be held on Monday, October 22 from noon to 6 p.m. in the HUB Ballroom, 2nd floor. Multiple UW departments and programs are working together to create this opportunity for undergraduates, graduate students, and…

• Social Good Summer Blog, issue six

  

  This summer series will highlight weekly blog posts from this year’s UW Data Science for Social Good Fellows. “Getting ground truth data through geospatial analysis” by Sean Chen, 2018 Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) Fellow Introduction It’s a much bandied about statistic, but it’s an important one: more than half of humanity’s 7 billion and…

• Blog: How to graduate with the cloud

  

  By Anya Chaliotis, machine learning developer, Expeditors Navigating higher education can be head spinning, especially in the senior year as graduation approaches. I’d like to share my story of going back to school for a Master of Science degree at the University of Washington’s Information School, informally the iSchool. The iSchool offers many opportunities including…

• Social Good Summer Blog, issue five

  

  This summer series will highlight weekly blog posts from this year’s UW Data Science for Social Good Fellows. “From the classroom to the real-world: using data science to approach inequality” by Haowen Zheng, 2018 Data Science for Social Good Fellow I am a student fellow in this year’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program…

• Social Good Summer Blog, issue four

  

  This summer series will highlight weekly blog posts from this year’s UW Data Science for Social Good Fellows. “Machine learning can improve disaster response after hurricanes, but not alone” by Tessa Schneider, 2018 Data Science for Social Good Fellow As fellows on the Disaster Damage Detection team (D-cubed) at the eScience Institute during the Data Science…

• Social Good Summer Blog, issue three

  

  This summer series will highlight weekly blog posts from this year’s UW Data Science for Social Good Fellows. “Why data scientists should care about the social good” by Darius Irani, 2018 Data Science for Social Good Fellow In the age of big data, insights from traditional domain fields are inspiring solutions to seemingly unrelated problems. I…

• eScience Institute co-hosts computational social science conference

  

  By SICSS-Seattle partner location organizers Connor Gilroy and Bernease Herman A satellite location of the Summer Institute for Computational Social Science (SICSS) was held June 18 – 22 at the eScience Institute in the WRF Data Science Studio. The purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and beginning faculty interested…

• Social Good Summer Blog, issue two

  

  This summer series will highlight weekly blog posts from this year’s UW Data Science for Social Good Fellows. “Learning to code and coding to learn”*, by Rebeca de Buen Kalman, 2018 Data Science for Social Good Fellow This summer, I am a Student Fellow in the University of Washington’s Data Science for Social Good Program. I am working…