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Updating Open-Source Verbal Autopsy Software to Modern Python Standards
Project Lead: Abraham D. Flaxman, UW Global Health Data Science Lead: Bryna Hazelton, Naomi Alterman The purpose of this project was to modernize SmartVA-Analyze, an existing open-source verbal autopsy (VA) software, by transitioning its codebase from Python 2 to Python 3. Verbal autopsy is a crucial tool for estimating the causes of death in settings where…
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Biodiversity Horizons: Predicting Climate Risks
Partners: Christopher Trisos, Cory Merow, Andreas Schwarz Meyer, and Ben Carlson SSEC Engineers: Cordero Core, Niki Burggraff, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Ishika Khandelwal, and Anshul Tambay Research Goals and Domain As global temperatures rise, preserving biodiversity is essential for the planet’s health and human well-being. However, current biodiversity risk projections are often limited to a…
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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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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…
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SSEC: Offshore Geodesy Workshop
On Friday, May 3rd, 2024, the Offshore Geodesy project team attended a workshop led by SSEC Senior Software Engineer Don Setiawan. The workshop included Professor David Schmidt and Post Doctoral Researcher John DeSanto, as well as Jesse Hutchinson from Ocean Networks Canada and SSEC Research Scholar Madhav Kashyap. The group reviewed progress made on the…
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Phylo2Vec: Accelerating Phylogenetic Research
Partners: Samir Bhatt, Neil Alexandre Scheidwasser, and Frederik Mølkjær Andersen SSEC Engineers: Don Setiawan, Madeline Gordon, and Ayush Nag Research Goals and Domain A phylogenetic tree is a diagram that illustrates the shared evolutionary history of a group of species. This diagram is represented as a bifurcating binary tree; a structure in which each node,…