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The Prototype of a Cloud Store for Distributed Acoustic Sensing Data
Project Lead: Yiyu Ni, Earth and Space Sciences, UW College of the Environment Data Science Leads: Naomi Alterman and Rob Fatland Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is an emerging seismic observation method that has recently enabled entirely new types of geophysical observation. DAS utilizes repeated laser pulses along optical fibers up to ~100 km in length to measure phase changes…
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Constructing a robust metric of peak quality for untargeted mass-spectrometry
Project Lead: Will Kumler, UW Oceanography Faculty Advisor: Anitra Ingalls, UW Professor of Chemical Oceanography Data Science Lead: Bryna Hazelton Mass spectrometry is a cutting-edge analysis field used to identify the molecular composition of samples taken from medical laboratories, the depths of the ocean, and even outer space. In the Ingalls Lab at UW, we use it to…
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Leveraging large satellite archives to understand the timing and distribution of global snowmelt
Project Lead: Eric Gagliano, Terrain Analysis and Cryosphere Observation Lab, UW Civil & Environmental Engineering Faculty Advisor: David Shean, UW Civil & Environmental Engineering Data Science Lead: Scott Henderson Seasonal snow plays an essential role in the Earth system and more than 1/6 of the world’s population relies on runoff from seasonal snow and glaciers for agricultural and…
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Announcing the 2023 Data Science Incubator Projects
The eScience’s annual Data Science Incubator program kicked off last week, which enables new research discoveries by bringing together data scientists and domain scientists to work on focused, intensive, collaborative projects. Our team of data scientists provide expertise in state-of-the-art technology and methods in large-scale data manipulation and analytics, cloud and cluster computing, statistics and…
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Call for Presenters: UW Data Science Seminar Series 2022-23
Call for Invited Presenters – UW Data Science Seminar – University of Washington Seattle We are inviting applications for guest presenters for the UW Data Science Seminar, an annual lecture series at the University of Washington that hosts scholars working across applied areas of data science, such as the arts, engineering, humanities and sciences along with…
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Vani Mandava joins UW as Head of Engineering for SSEC
Vani Mandava joins UW as Head of Engineering to build a world-class software engineering team to transform scientific software development. The University of Washington eScience Institute welcomes Vani Mandava as the Head of Engineering for the newly formed UW Scientific Software Engineering Center SSEC (pronounced S Seek). Vani has most recently been leading Trustworthy AI research engagements…
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Learning and Doing Data for Good 2022 Conference
Earlier this month the eScience Institute held the “Learning and Doing Data For Good” conference, an event for current students and alumni in university-based data for good programs, their project partners, and data science professionals. The goal was to inspire discussions and networking with others who are motivated to learn from and meet the needs…
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Black-owned restaurants disproportionately impacted during pandemic
During the first year of the pandemic, and amid protests for racial justice following the murder of George Floyd, tech companies such as Google, Yelp and DoorDash started “Black-owned” labelling campaigns to encourage customer support for restaurants and other businesses. But new research, using cellphone location data, shows that visits to restaurants that identify as…
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OceanHackWeek 2022
OceanHackWeek (OHW) 2022 concluded on August 19th after five days of collaborative data exploration, peer learning, and software development. Expanding on a successful hybrid event in 2021, OHW22 was a global virtual event with six regional satellites around the world to accommodate more diverse learning environment preferences, as well as to better address the demand for in-person…
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2022 DSSG Teams Present Their Final Project Results
By: Emily Keller-O’Donnell Student fellows at the University of Washington Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program presented the results of their 10-week summer projects on August 17th. The fellows conducted their work on four interdisciplinary teams, working with project leads and data scientists. The DSSG program at the eScience Institute brings together students from universities around the country with data…