-
Oceanography article features eScience Institute managers
By Robin Brooks Micaela Parker and Sarah Stone, eScience Institute managers, have been profiled in the quarterly edition of Oceanography (volume 29, edition 2), a publication of The Oceanography Society. Parker and Stone’s role is unique in the University of Washington community, because it is the first management job share. Though some cutting of red…
-
CrowdSensing Census: A heterogenous-based tools for estimating poverty
Project Lead: Afra Mashhadi, Bell Labs, Nokia Data Scientist Leads: Ariel Rokem (primary) and Jake VanderPlas (secondary) DSSG Fellows: Rachael Dottle, Myeong Lee, Imam Subkhan & Carlos Espino Project Goals: Household surveys and censuses, periodically conducted by National Statistical Institutes and the like, collect information describing the social and economic well being of a nation, as well as…
-
Global Open Sidewalks: Crating a shared open data layer and an OpenStreetMap data standard for sidewalks
Project Leads: Anat Caspi & Nick Bolten – CSE, CEE, Taskar Center Data Scientist Leads: Vaughn Iverson (primary) and Bryna Hazelton (secondary) DSSG Fellows: Thomas Disley, Meg Drouhard, Jessica Hamilton & Kaicheng Tan Project Goals: This project aimed to fill a gap we’ve identified in the availability of open data related to pedestrian walk ways and the physical environment.…
-
Use of ORCA data for improved transit system planning and operation
Project Leads: Mark Hallenbeck & Anat Caspi – CEE (Civil & Environmental Engineering), Taskar Center Data Scientist Leads: Bernease Herman (primary) and Anthony Arendt (secondary) DSSG Fellows: Carolina Johnson, Victoria Sass, Yiqin Shen & Sean Wang Project Goals: Seven regional transportation agencies use a common electronic fare payment system, called ORCA – One Regional Card for All. When ORCA…
-
Mining Online Data for Early Identification of Unsafe Food Products
Project Lead: Elaine Nsoesie, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Department of Global Health, UW Data Scientist Leads: Valentina Staneva (primary) and Joe Hellerstein (secondary) DSSG Fellows: Michael Munsell, Kiren Verma, Cynthia Vint & Kara Woo Project Goals: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 48 million people experience foodborne illness, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000…
-
Gender differences in self-citation
Molly King of Stanford University along with colleagues from NYU and the UW, including Data Science Fellow Jevin West, recently wrote a paper investigating differences in self-citation practices between men and women. Using over 1.5 million papers in the JSTOR database published between 1779-2011, they found that men self-cite 56% more often than women do.…
-
WRF Perfect Pitch & Poster Session a Success
By Robin Brooks The Washington Research Foundation (WRF) Perfect Pitch and Poster Contest was held on Tuesday, July 12th in the HUB South Ballroom. Participants from all four of the WRF-funded research institutes at the University of Washington competed in the event, which challenges contestants to improve their communication skills. All competitors conveyed their research visually through…
-
Meet the 2016 Data Science for Social Good fellows
By Robin Brooks Their schools, goals, specialties, countries and backgrounds vary. So what compels 16 college students to work full-time for a summer analyzing data? The eScience Institute‘s Data Science for Social Good program allows fellows the opportunity to develop new skills, learn from one another, and receive guidance from top-notch scientists on their project…
-
eScience Institute’s Ed Lazowska in the news
By Robin Brooks Ed Lazowska, eScience Institute founding director, has been featured recently in the press on a variety of science-related topics. Lazowska is quoted in the Wall Street Journal on Apple’s new “differential privacy” technology, as well as in the Puget Sound Business Journal on the need for expansion of UW’s computer science program. “Student interest in computer science is…
-
Nascent ImageXD event successful
By Robin Brooks The University of California, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) recently hosted the inaugural ImageXD event, a topical group focused on image processing. ImageXD offered a unique opportunity for researchers who use images as a primary source of data to gather together to collaborate, problem-solve, network and learn new skills. A breakout session…