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Meet the 2018 Data Science for Social Good fellows
The eScience Institute is pleased to welcome 15 talented student fellows to our summer 2018 Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program which kicks off Monday, June 11. The DSSG fellows hail […]
Research scientist funding opportunity at eScience
NOTE: We are no longer accepting applications for this opportunity. Thank you for your interest.
RESEARCH SCIENTIST FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
University of Washington eScience Institute
Location: Seattle Campus
The eScience Institute empowers researchers and students in all fields to […]
Extending data science training across the West
In partnership with the West Big Data Innovation Hub, the eScience Institute hosted a hands-on Data Carpentry Instructor Training Mar. 22 – 23 in the WRF Data Science Studio. Participant teams hailed from across the western […]
First UW Data Science Summit a success
By Robin Brooks
Over 200 students, faculty, staff, and community members attended the first annual UW Data Science Summit, a two-day conference hosted by the eScience Institute. The cross-disciplinary event, which was held on the Seattle […]
Reflections on the 2018 Winter Incubator program
Nineteen project leads, eScience data scientists, and researchers participated in this year’s Winter Incubator program, which focused on projects in hydrology, political science, astronomy, atmospheric science and neuroscience. The five teams met over the course […]
Masters students finish course on governance analytics
Twenty-two students participated in the UW Evans School of Public Policy and Governance’s course “Computational Thinking for Governance Analytics” held in the winter quarter. The course was created and taught by professor Jose Manuel Magallanes, an […]
RAPID grant awarded for Puerto Rico research
By Julia Hart for Freshwater
On Sept. 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm. With sustained winds of 155 miles per hour, just two miles per hour shy of […]
Researchers receive five-year grant to study homelessness and education
By Emily Keller
The University of Washington (UW) eScience Institute has received a five-year, $754,601 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance data analytics at organizations serving the homeless in the Puget Sound region, […]
2017 eScience Institute highlights
By Robin Brooks
It was a productive, full and fantastic year here at the eScience Institute. Students, faculty, staff, researchers and community members participated in dozens of events, workshops, seminars, poster sessions, working groups, networking opportunities, […]
‘Creating Institutional Change in Data Science’ paper published
A new paper intended for academic leaders who seek to accelerate data-intensive discovery and data science education on their campuses has been released.
It is based on the experiences of the three institutions (New York University; University of California, Berkeley; […]
2017 Moore Sloan Data Science Summit held in New Orleans
By Robin Brooks
Over 120 people attended the Moore Sloan Data Science Summit Nov. 5 – 8, 2017, in New Orleans, LA. The conference, held to foster collaboration as part of the Moore Sloan Data Science […]
Blog: My eScience experience
By Kivan Polimis
I heard about the eScience Institute in the fall of 2014, during my first quarter at the University of Washington (UW), and was immediately drawn in by the Institute’s inclusive approach. That mention […]
Postdoctoral fellows join eScience team
By Robin Brooks
The eScience Institute has recently welcomed 14 new Moore-Sloan Data Science and Washington Research Foundation Innovation in Data Science Postdoctoral Fellows representing 13 different departments on campus, and a breadth of research and technical […]
Welcome from Director Magdalena Balazinska
Dear eScience team and community,
The new school year is in full gear and the eScience Institute is once again the place on campus where researchers come to learn about the latest data science tools and […]
2017 Geohackweek a collaborative success
By Anthony Arendt, data scientist and Geohackweek organizer
The University of Washington’s eScience Institute hosted the second annual Geohackweek Sept. 11 – 15, 2017. Inspired by AstroHackWeek and Neurohackweek, the conference combined tutorials with group work (“hacks”) on […]
Fall Welcome Event
By Robin Brooks
The eScience Institute held its annual Fall Welcome Event Oct. 2, 2017, in the WRF Data Science Studio. Dozens of students, faculty and staff members enjoyed a warm welcome from Magdalena Balazinska, director of […]
Neurohackweek: an international collaboration
By Ariel Rokem, data scientist and Neurohackweek organizer
Forty graduate students, postdocs, research staff and faculty took part in Neurohackweek 2017, including international attendees from Turkey, Russia, Canada, the United Kingdom and Denmark.
The neuroscience conference, which ran […]
Data Science for Social Good in the news
By Robin Brooks
The Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) final project presentations happened on Aug. 17, 2017, on the Seattle campus. The fellows presented on the results of their projects over a two-hour period to […]
Interview with archaeologist Ben Marwick
By Robin Brooks
The pioneering archaeology work of Ben Marwick, data science fellow and member of the eScience Institute Steering Committee, has resulted in several high-profile publications and garnered lots of media attention. His paper “Human occupation […]
Leadership changes at the eScience Institute
The eScience Institute is pleased to announce recent changes in leadership and institutional structure. We are extremely grateful to Ed Lazowska and Bill Howe for their inspiring leadership and look forward to their continued contributions […]
NASA High Mountain Asia Project
By Robin Brooks
Over one billion people live downstream of the region referred to as High Mountain Asia, an area ranging from the Hindu Kush and Tien Shan in the west to the Eastern Himalaya, and […]
Social good fellows win Seattle Angelhack
By Robin Brooks
2017 Data Science for Social Good fellows Brett Bejcek, Mayuree Binjolkar, and Orysya Stus, with UW electrical engineering PhD student Yana Sosnovskaya, competed in and won the ‘Best use of HERE Technologies’ challenge […]
Data Science for Social Good fellows meet in Vancouver
By Robin Brooks
The first Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative Summit took place on the University of British Columbia campus July 13 – 14. eScience Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) student fellows and project leads joined with […]
Data Science for Social Good fellows take AI prize
By Robin Brooks
Four of the 2017 eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) fellows took first place in the Seattle Global AI Hackathon, “the world’s first ever AI hackathon series”. Brett Bejcek, Mayuree Binjolkar, Orysya Stus, […]