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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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NSF-funded CloudBank Now Operational
The eScience Institute at the University of Washington; the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego; the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society at UC Berkeley; and Strategic Blue have entered production operations of the CloudBank program, which aims to simplify the use of public clouds across computer science…
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Data Science for Social Good Fellows Present Their Project Results
By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell This year, two interdisciplinary teams at the eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program tackled timely issues, conducting projects to identify disinformation articles about the coronavirus and detect minority vote dilution resulting from geographic boundary setting in state, city, county and school board districts. On August 19th, the DSSG student…
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Detecting of Vote Dilution: New tools and methods for protecting voting rights
Project leads: Matt A. Barreto, Professor of Political Science and Chicana/o Studies, and Faculty Director of the Voting Rights Project at University of California, Los Angeles; and Loren Collingwood, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at University of California, Riverside Data scientists: Scott Henderson and Spencer Wood DSSG fellows: Juandalyn Burke, Ari Decter-Frain, Hikari Murayama, Pratik Sachdeva Participant…
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Identifying Coronavirus Disinformation on Websites
Project leads: Maggie Engler, Lead Data Scientist, and Lucas Wright, Senior Researcher, at the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) Data scientists: Noah Benson and Vaughn Iverson DSSG fellows: George Hope Chidziwisano, Richa Gupta, Kseniya Husak, Maya Luetke Participant bios available here. Project Summary: Online disinformation has been used as a tool to weaponize mass influence and disseminate propaganda. To combat disinformation, we need…