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Looking Back on the Summer 2024 Humanities Data Science Summer Institute (HDSSI)
Seed of an Idea Anna Preus, Assistant Professor of English, and Melanie Walsh, Assistant Professor in the Information School, first met in graduate school at Washington University in Saint Louis, when they were participants in the Humanities Digital Workshop. The workshop offered the unique opportunity to explore the intersection of data science and humanities. When…
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Constructing a Drivers-Based Framework for Assessing Water Reuse
Project leads: Carolyn Hayek, Researcher and Teaching Fellow, Columbia University, and Miriam Hacker, Research Program Manager, Water Research Foundation. Data scientist: Curtis Atkisson, eScience Institute, University of Washington. DSSG fellows: Daniel Vogler, Jihyeon Bae, Mbye Sallah, Nora Povejsil. Communities around the United States are thinking of alternative water systems to address local water challenges. One example of this…
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Investigating Transit Equity Through ORCA Fare Card Analysis
Project leads: Mark Hallenbeck, [Retired] Director of the Washington State Transportation Center (TRAC), University of Washington, and Ryan Avery, Deputy Director of the Washington State Transportation Center (TRAC), University of Washington. Data scientist: Bryna Hazelton, eScience Institute, University of Washington. DSSG fellows: Himanshu Naidu, Ishan Saksena, Rebecca Hayes, Siman Ning. Transit service is a public good, and quality service…
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Understanding Unsheltered Homelessness in King County: UW 2023 Seattle Area Homeless Count
Project leads: Zach Almquist, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Washington. Data scientist: June Yang, eScience Institute, University of Washington. DSSG fellows: Brooke Kaye, Felix Jr. Appiah Kubi, Jessica Robinson, Rebecca Schachtman. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development released the 2023 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) on December 15, 2023. The report estimates that 653,100…
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Measuring Fairness and Equity in Crowd-Flow Generation Models
Project leads: Afra Mashhadi, Assistant Professor, Computer Software and Systems, University of Washington, Bothell, and Ekin Ugurel, Ph.D. Candidate, College of Engineering, University of Washington. Data scientist: Bernease Herman, eScience Institute, University of Washington. DSSG fellows: Apoorva Sheera, Jiaqi He, Manurag Khullar, Sakshi Charvan. Generative crowd-flow (CF) models are machine learning models that are capable of producing mobility…
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UW DSSG: 2024 Summer Program
The eScience Institute recently spoke with six Student Fellows from the Data Science for Social Good program, now in its 10th year at the University of Washington’s Seattle campus. In-depth project descriptions are available on the UW DSSG projects page. The Seattle summer is in full effect. People are taking advantage of the extended daylight…
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SSEC: Offshore Geodesy Workshop
On Friday, May 3rd, 2024, the Offshore Geodesy project team attended a workshop led by SSEC Senior Software Engineer Don Setiawan. The workshop included Professor David Schmidt and Post Doctoral Researcher John DeSanto, as well as Jesse Hutchinson from Ocean Networks Canada and SSEC Research Scholar Madhav Kashyap. The group reviewed progress made on the…
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Post Disaster Comms: Resilient Communities
Partners: Cynthia Chen, Kurtis Heimerl, Dan Abramson, Esther Jang, and Ridley LeDoux SSEC Engineers: Niki Burggraf, Don Setiawan, Anuj Sinha, Parvati Jayakumar, and Ying-Hsiang Huang Research Goals and Domain Natural disasters isolate communities, leaving them to fend for themselves. UW THINKlab is interested in the untapped physical and social capacity within communities to drive their…
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IDD Data Portal: Centralized Insights
Partners: Sunny Juul, Kari Stephens, Josh Lovseth, and Grace Sun SSEC Engineers: Robert Culver, Cordero Core and Anshul Tambay Research Goals and Domain One in six children have an intellectual and/or developmental disability (IDD). Despite this high prevalence, there are critical gaps in knowledge on how and when children present with potential IDD. Furthermore, there…
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CECI Database: Modernizing for Scale
Partners: Juliet Taylor, Dayton Allemann, and Jason Welch SSEC Engineers: Cordero Core, Don Setiawan, and Anant Mittal Research Goals and Domain Developed as a collaboration between early learning professionals and the University of Washington Cultivate Learning, the Coach and Educator Community Interface (CECI) is an online platform that powers professional development for early childhood educators.…