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The rise and fall of network stars
May 23, 2019 Michael Fire, previous eScience postdoctoral fellow, and Carlos Guestrin, senior data science fellow, have published a paper titled “The rise and fall of network stars: analyzing 2.5 million graphs to reveal how high-degree vertices emerge over time” in the Journal of Information Processing and Management. Fire and Guestrin constructed the largest publicly…
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Evictions project impacts new state legislation
By Tim Thomas, Moore/Sloane Postdoctoral Fellow May 16, 2019 On May 9th, Governor Jay Inslee signed Senate Bill 5600 into law which extends the evictions pay-or-vacate notice in Washington from three days to 14 days. The Washington Evictions Research Project (WAEV) provided groundbreaking empirical evidence for stakeholders and policymakers to use to get this legislation…
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Submit your application to work with us as a data scientist
May 16, 2019 The eScience Institute at the University of Washington is seeking outstanding candidates for the position of Data Scientist. The ideal candidate will have expertise in one or more areas related to data science (machine learning, statistics, databases, large-scale data systems, visualization, and interfaces that facilitate large-scale data understanding), demonstrated experience in software engineering and…
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Participants reflect on first Waterhackweek
April 30, 2019 The eScience Institute and the UW Freshwater Initiative co-hosted the first Waterhackweek, a five-day collaborative event for freshwater-related data science Mar. 25 – 29, 2019. We asked participants to give us their insight on the event, and three of them responded. Here are their thoughts. ———— Zahra Sharifnezhadazizi, PhD candidate, Department of…
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Reflections on the 2019 Winter Incubator program
April 24, 2019 With the results of our 2019 Winter Incubator program in, we offered participants the opportunity to weigh in on their experiences in this data science- intensive 10-week program. Two of them responded; here are their thoughts. ———— Stuart Ian Graham, UW Biology Department I had the invaluable experience of working with Dr.…
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eScience Institute, Freshwater Initiative host first Waterhackweek
April 22, 2019 The first Waterhackweek, a five-day collaborative event for freshwater-related data science, was held at the University of Washington (UW) in partnership with the eScience Institute and the UW Freshwater Initiative Mar. 25 – 29, 2019. The event received funding from the National Science Foundation CyberTraining Program. Participants hailed from the UW and…
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Reflections on five years of the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments
April 10, 2019 The Moore-Sloan Data Science Environments (MSDSE) program, established jointly by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, was launched in 2014 to foster and enhance data-intensive discovery at academic institutions. The program initially funded three data science environments for five years (recently extended for an additional two…
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Interactions of tropical precipitation with atmospheric circulation and energy transport
Project Lead: Lauren Kuntz, Department of Oceanography eScience Liaison: Rob Fatland, with Purshottam Shivraj However, our canonical view of how precipitation impacts broad scale atmospheric circulation and energy transport relies on simplified models of the zonal mean; it fails to explain the vertical and meridional variability in precipitation events, as well as their impact on energy…
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Affective state analysis of ultrasonic vocalizations in animal models of mTBI/PTSD and neuropathic pain
Project Lead: Abigail G. Schindler, acting assistant professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Services eScience Liaison: Valentina Staneva Chronic health conditions (e.g. mental health, pain) are increasing in the US and contribute substantially to decreased quality of life, loss of productivity, and increased financial burden. Indeed, the CDC estimates that over 90% of annual health care expenditures…
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Predicting human-mediated vectors for invasive species from mobile technology
Project Lead: Julian Olden with Rachael Fricke, both UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences eScience Liaison: Spencer Wood Invasive species pose a significant threat to ecosystem health and economies of nations across the globe. Freshwater recreational fishing is the largest and growing vector for invader introductions: specifically, because angler activities entangle invasive organisms on…