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The Promise of Big Data: Q&A With eScience’s Andrew Connolly
University of Washington’s Andrew Connolly recently spoke with UW Today’s Peter Kelley to discuss his work on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), calling it “one of the most exciting experiments in astrophysics today.” Connolly, a professor in UW’s Department of Astronomy as well as a member of the eScience Executive Committee, oversaw UW’s data…
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eScience Director Ed Lazowska Receives David B. Thorud Leadership Award
eScience Founding Director and Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in UW’s Computer Science and Engineering, Ed Lazowska, was awarded the University of Washington David B. Thorud Leadership Award yesterday in a ceremony honoring 2015 recipients. “Ed has been a truly extraordinary leader for many years and in many settings – national, regional, institutional, and departmental.…
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eScience Co-Sponsoring SciPy 2015 Conference
The University of Washington eScience Institute is proud to announce a joint sponsorship of the 2015 Scientific Computing with Python conference with our partners at the Berkeley Institute of Data Science and the NYU Center for Data Science. This year’s conference takes place in Austin, Texas, July 6-12, and features Jake Vanderplas, eScience’s Director of…
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Data Science for Social Good Projects
The eScience Institute kicked off its inaugural Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program the week of June 15th. Modeled after similar programs at the University of Chicago and Georgia Tech, with elements from our own Data Science Incubator, the goal of the DSSG program is to enable new insight by bringing together data and domain…
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Welcome New eScience Staff
Please join us in welcoming the following new staff members to the University of Washington’s eScience Institute.
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UW Becomes Software Carpentry Partner
We are very pleased to announce that the eScience Institute at the University of Washington has become a partner of the Software Carpentry Foundation. Since its creation in 2008, the eScience Institute has worked to create the intellectual and physical infrastructure needed to meet the challenges of doing science in a world where new sources of large, complex, and…
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Analysis of Large-Scale Patterns in Phytoplankton Diversity
Project Lead: Sophie Clayton (Oceanography) eScience Liaison: Daniel Halperin Microscopic algae (called phytoplankton) form the base of the oceanic food chain, and are key players in the biogeochemical cycles of many climatically-active elements. Ecological theory predicts that diverse ecosystems are more stable, i.e. more resistant to stressors, than less diverse ecosystems. However data on the diversity of oceanic…
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Innovation: Evidence from Patents
Project Lead: Matthew Denes (Finance and Business Economics) eScience Liaison: Andrew Whitaker One of the key drivers of long-term economic growth studied in economics and finance is technological innovation. A common proxy of innovative activity is patents. Patents provide researchers with a clear and well-recorded measure of innovation, where the number of patents and patent citations are…
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Analysis of .Gov Web Archive Data
Project Leads: Emily Gade (Political Science) eScience Liaison: Andrew Whitaker Data are revolutionizing all fields of science including political science. Managing unstructured data (particularly text) is a non-trivial challenge for social scientists, especially at a large scale. An example is the .gov dataset curated by the Internet Archive (IA). The IA curates web crawls from 1996 to…
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Simulating Competition in the U.S. Airline Industry
Project Lead: Charlie Manzanares (Economics) eScience Liaisons: Andrew Whitaker, Daniel Halperin Since 2005, the U.S. airline industry has experienced the most dramatic merger activity in its history, which has reduced the number of major carriers in the U.S. from eight to four. My project seeks to provide novel estimates of changes in consumer and producer welfare in the…