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UW Announces Two New Positions in Support of Data-Intensive Discovery Initiative
Shortly after being named University of Washington Provost, Anne Marie Cauce (now the UW’s president) asked eScience Founding Director Ed Lazowska and Steering Committee member Werner Stuetzle to advise on additional steps to undertake to ensure that the University of Washington was a leader in data-intensive discovery. Under the Provost’s Initiative in Data-Intensive Discovery, the Provost will consider…
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Visualization Research Papers Catches Stephen Few’s Eye
A blog posting on Perceptual Edge by data visualization expert Stephen Few features two papers that caught his eye at this year’s IEEE VisWeek Conference. The first, “Voyager: Exploratory Analysis via Faceted Browsing of Visualization Recommendations” (PDF), is co-authored by eScience Associate Director Bill Howe. In reviewing it, Few writes: “Voyager is a visual [exploratory…
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Predicting Poverty And Wealth From Mobile Phone Metadata
Accurate and timely estimates of population characteristics are a critical input to…
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UW Research Science Team Takes 2nd in WSDM Cup
Congratulations to Team Eigenfactor for taking 2nd place in the WSDM Cup Challenge.
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Jake VanderPlas: Mr. Most Insightful
Jake VanderPlas is one of five winners of the 2015 Pronto Data Challenge.
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What It Means To Be A Smart City
Recently, Seattle Channel paid a visit to the eScience Institute to discuss our involvement in the Smart Cities Initiative.
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Assessing Community Well-being through Open Data and Social Media
Project Lead: Shelly Farnham, Third Place Technologies DSSG Fellows: Jordan Bates, Ryan Burns, Jenny Ho, Yue Zhou ALVA Students: Avery Glass, Jennifer Nino eScience Data Scientist Mentors: Bernease Herman, Bill Howe Our DSSG Fellows and ALVA students paired with Third Place Technologies to create neighborhood community report pages in the context of a hyperlocal, crowd-sourced community network. The objective was to…
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Ben Marwick On How Computers Broke Science
eScience Data Science Fellow Ben Marwick, who is also Associate Professor of Archaeology at University of Washington, has an article published today in The Conversation about the problem that computers pose to reproducibility in science. “For most of the history of science, researchers have reported their methods in a way that enabled independent reproduction of…
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Big Data Having Big Impact On Transportation
A cover story in the Seattle Times highlights the positive impact University of Washington and Seattle are having in solving growing traffic problems in the Puget Sound region. The feature focuses on the numerous apps now available to help with one’s commute, along with the large amount of public and private data driving them —…
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Urban@UW Featured in UW Today
There’s a great feature in UW Today about Urban@UW. From the article: “There are more than 200 UW faculty members working on urban topics, […] from geographers using GIS technology to address the complexities of homelessness to data scientists working on transportation challenges to teams of researchers working on food access and Seattle’s minimum wage.…