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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Social Good Summer Blog, issue one
This summer series will highlight weekly blog posts from this year’s UW Data Science for Social Good Fellows. Scroll down to read posts by Kellie MacPhee and Joe Abbate. “Being right” by Kellie MacPhee, 2018 Data Science for Social Good Fellow In mathematics, right and wrong are clearly distinguishable. Sure, there are questions of style and…
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Data Science for Social Good projects begin
By Emily Keller-O’Donnell The eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program began June 11th with 15 fellows working on three project teams in collaboration with data scientists and project leads. A project with the University of Washington’s Industrial and Systems Engineering Department and Disaster Data Science Lab will focus on improving situational awareness after…
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Meet the 2018 Data Science for Social Good fellows
The eScience Institute is pleased to welcome 15 talented student fellows to our summer 2018 Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program which kicks off Monday, June 11. The DSSG fellows hail from universities across the United States and represent a diversity of disciplines including public policy, linguistics, sociology, mathematics, and biology…
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Research scientist funding opportunity at eScience
NOTE: We are no longer accepting applications for this opportunity. Thank you for your interest. RESEARCH SCIENTIST FUNDING OPPORTUNITY University of Washington eScience Institute Location: Seattle Campus The eScience Institute empowers researchers and students in all fields to answer fundamental questions through the use of large, complex, and noisy data. As the hub of data-intensive discovery on…
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Extending data science training across the West
In partnership with the West Big Data Innovation Hub, the eScience Institute hosted a hands-on Data Carpentry Instructor Training Mar. 22 – 23 in the WRF Data Science Studio. Participant teams hailed from across the western region representing universities, government, and community organizations in Alaska, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and California. All have now been certified…
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First UW Data Science Summit a success
By Robin Brooks Over 200 students, faculty, staff, and community members attended the first annual UW Data Science Summit, a two-day conference hosted by the eScience Institute. The cross-disciplinary event, which was held on the Seattle campus, featured keynote speakers Emily Fox of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and the…