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UW Partners with Seattle for Smart Cities Initiative
UW Today is reporting that, as part of a new White House Smart Cities Initiative called The MetroLab Network, the University of Washington has partnered with the City of Seattle in joining “a new national network of university-city partnerships that will work on ‘smart city’ solutions.” “Great universities can’t succeed without great cities,” said UW…
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Data Science for Social Good – Final Presentations
On Thursday, August 20th, the four project teams for eScience’s Data Science for Social Goodsummer program gathered one last time to make their final presentations in front of a room filled to capacity with distinguished guests. The culmination of ten weeks work now boiled down to thirty-minute presentations, and the recently-christened Data Science for Social…
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Rerouting Solutions and Expensive Ride Analysis for King County Paratransit
Project Lead: Dr. Anat Caspi, Taskar Center for Accessible Technology DSSG Fellows: Rohan Aras, Frank Fineis, Kristen Garofali, Kivan Polimis eScience Data Scientists: Joseph Hellerstein and Valentina Staneva DREU Fellow: Emily Andrulis, Cornell College Weekly The Paratransit team collaborated with King County Metro to improve operations of the Paratransit service which is an on-demand public transportation program that provides…
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Predictors of Permanent Housing for Homeless Families
Project Leads: Neil Roche and Anjana Sundaram, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation DSSG Fellows: Joan Wang, Jason Portenoy, Fabliha Ibnat, Chris Suberlak ALVA Students: Cameron Holt, Xilalit Sanchez eScience Data Scientist Mentors: Ariel Rokem, Bryna Hazelton The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, together with Building Changes, have partnered with King, Pierce and Snohomish counties to make homelessness in these counties rare, brief and…
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Open Sidewalk Graph for Accessible Trip Planning
Project Leads: Nick Bolten, Anat Caspi DSSG Fellows: Amir Amini, Yun Hao, Vaishnavi Ravichandran, Andre Stephens ALVA Students: Nick Krasnoselsky, Doris Layman eScience Data Scientist Mentors: Anthony Arendt, Jake Vanderplas This project is an extension of the “Hackcessible” project that was awarded top prize in this year’s “HackTheCommute” event in Seattle. Hackcessible has built an application that helps people…
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UW hosts NSF-sponsored Data Science Workshop 2015
Data Science Workshop 2015, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, will be held at the University of Washington on August 5-7. The workshop will bring together 100 graduate students from across the nation, representing diverse science and engineering domains, to interact with data scientists from industry and academia. David Beck, the UW eScience Institute’s Director…
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Data Science for Social Good: Improving Service to Homeless Familes
Authors: Fabliha Ibnat (UW eScience Institute DSSG intern), Chris Suberlak (UW eScience Institute DSSG intern), Jason Portenoy (UW eScience Institute DSSG intern), Joan Wang (UW eScience Institute DSSG intern), Xitlalit Sanchez (UW ALVA student intern), Cameron Holt (UW ALVA student intern), Neil Roche (BMGF, Data Scientist), Anjana Sundaram (BMGF, Data Officer), Bryna Hazelton (UW eScience Institute Research Scientist), Ariel Rokem (UW eScience Institute Data Scientist). We are living in an age where data plays…
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University of Washington Waives Indirect Cost on Cloud Services
UW CSE News reports that UW has waived indirect cost on cloud services, removing disincentives to the selecting research computing and storage options. eScience Director Ed Lazowska writes: This decision removes one of several bizarre disincentives to the rational selection of research computing and storage options – disincentives that plague universities nationwide. Federal guidelines waive…
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Data Science for Social Good Project Midterms
Last week the four project teams from our Data Science for Social Good summer program gathered in the WRF Data Science Studio to present project updates to eScience’s Executive Committee and other invited guests. It was a midterm, of sorts, to see how everything and everyone was coming along. Based on previous eScience incubator programs,…
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Preface to Python Data Science Handbook (Early Release)
O’Reilly Publishing has released a preface to Python Data Science Handbook (Early Release) by Jake VanderPlas, eScience’s Senior Data Scientist and Director of Research, Physical Sciences. “What is data science?” VanderPlas writes. “It’s a surprisingly hard definition to nail down, especially given how ubiquitous the term has become. Despite its hype-laden veneer, [data science] is…