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Phylo2Vec: Accelerating Phylogenetic Research
Partners Samir Bhatt, Principal Investigator, University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology & Imperial College London Neil Alexandre Scheidwasser, PhD Fellow, University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology Frederik Mølkjær Andersen, PhD Fellow, University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology SSEC Engineers Don Setiawan, Principal Research Software Engineer, University of…
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Post Disaster Comms: Resilient Communities
Partners Cynthia Chen, Director, University of Washington ThinkLab Kurtis Heimerl, Assistant Professor, UW Computer Science and Engineering Dan Abramson, Associate Professor, UW Urban Design and Planning Esther Jang, Postdoctoral Scholar, UW Computer Science and Engineering Ridley LeDoux, UW Human Centered Design and Engineering SSEC Engineers Don Setiawan, Senior Research Software Enginner Niki Burggraf, Senior Research…
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Looking Back on the Summer 2024 Humanities Data Science Summer Institute (HDSSI)
Seed of an Idea Anna Preus, Assistant Professor of English, and Melanie Walsh, Assistant Professor in the Information School, first met in graduate school at Washington University in Saint Louis, when they were participants in the Humanities Digital Workshop. The workshop offered the unique opportunity to explore the intersection of data science and humanities. When…
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Constructing a Drivers-Based Framework for Assessing Water Reuse
Project leads: Carolyn Hayek, Researcher and Teaching Fellow, Columbia University, and Miriam Hacker, Research Program Manager, Water Research Foundation. Data scientist: Curtis Atkisson, eScience Institute, University of Washington. DSSG fellows: Daniel Vogler, Jihyeon Bae, Mbye Sallah, Nora Povejsil. Click here for participant bios. Communities around the United States are thinking of alternative water systems to address local water…
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Investigating Transit Equity Through ORCA Fare Card Analysis
Project leads: Mark Hallenbeck, [Retired] Director of the Washington State Transportation Center (TRAC), University of Washington, and Ryan Avery, Deputy Director of the Washington State Transportation Center (TRAC), University of Washington. Data scientist: Bryna Hazelton, eScience Institute, University of Washington. DSSG fellows: Himanshu Naidu, Ishan Saksena, Rebecca Hayes, Siman Ning. Click here for participant bios. Transit service is a…
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Understanding Unsheltered Homelessness in King County: UW 2023 Seattle Area Homeless Count
Project leads: Zach Almquist, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Washington. Data scientist: June Yang, eScience Institute, University of Washington. DSSG fellows: Brooke Kaye, Felix Jr. Appiah Kubi, Jessica Robinson, Rebecca Schachtman. Click here for participant bios. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development released the 2023 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) on December 15, 2023.…
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Measuring Fairness and Equity in Crowd-Flow Generation Models
Project leads: Afra Mashhadi, Assistant Professor, Computer Software and Systems, University of Washington, Bothell, and Ekin Ugurel, Ph.D. Candidate, College of Engineering, University of Washington. Data scientist: Bernease Herman, eScience Institute, University of Washington. DSSG fellows: Apoorva Sheera, Jiaqi He, Manurag Khullar, Sakshi Charvan. Click here for participant bios. Generative crowd-flow (CF) models are machine learning models that…
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IDD Data Portal: Centralized Insights
Partners Sunny Juul, Director, Cultivate Learning Kari Stephens, Associate Professor, UW Medicine Josh Lovseth, Data Services Manager, UW Medicine Grace Sun, UW Medicine SSEC Engineers Robert Culver, Principal Software Consultant Anshul Tambay, Technical Program Manager One in 6 children have an intellectual and/or developmental disability (IDD). Despite this high prevalence, there are critical gaps in…
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CECI Database: Modernizing for Scale
Partners Juliet Taylor, Deputy Director, Cultivate Learning Dayton Allemann, Web Application Developer, Cultivate Learning Jason Welch, Web Project Manager, Cultivate Learning SSEC Engineers Cordero Core, Senior Research Software Engineer Don Setiawan, Senior Research Software Engineer Developed as a collaboration between early learning professionals and the University of Washington, the Coach and Educator Community Interface (CECI)…
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UW DSSG: 2024 Summer Program
The eScience Institute recently spoke with six Student Fellows from the Data Science for Social Good program, now in its 10th year at the University of Washington’s Seattle campus. In-depth project descriptions are available on the UW DSSG projects page. The Seattle summer is in full effect. People are taking advantage of the extended daylight…