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eScience Institute fellow Zagheni wins award
By Robin Brooks
eScience Institute fellow Emilio Zagheni, assistant professor of sociology, was awarded the 2016 “Trailblazer Award for Demographic Analysis” at the recent European Association for Population Studies conference. The award is conferred every two […]
DSSG projects highlighted in the media
By Robin Brooks
The eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good fellows presented their final projects on August, 18th to a packed auditorium.
The sixteen fellows have been working for the last ten weeks on four projects […]
Oceanography article features eScience Institute managers
By Robin Brooks
Micaela Parker and Sarah Stone, eScience Institute managers, have been profiled in the quarterly edition of Oceanography (volume 29, edition 2), a publication of The Oceanography Society. Parker and Stone’s role is unique […]
Gender differences in self-citation
Molly King of Stanford University along with colleagues from NYU and the UW, including Data Science Fellow Jevin West, recently wrote a paper investigating differences in self-citation practices between men and women. Using over 1.5 […]
Traffic safety DataDive
In May 2016, the eScience Institute hosted a DataDive organized by DataKind and sponsored by Microsoft. The event followed a city of Seattle commitment to Vision Zero, an effort aimed at reducing traffic fatalities and […]
WRF Perfect Pitch & Poster Session a Success
By Robin Brooks
The Washington Research Foundation (WRF) Perfect Pitch and Poster Contest was held on Tuesday, July 12th in the HUB South Ballroom. Participants from all four of the WRF-funded research institutes at the University of Washington […]
Meet the 2016 Data Science for Social Good fellows
By Robin Brooks
Their schools, goals, specialties, countries and backgrounds vary. So what compels 16 college students to work full-time for a summer analyzing data?
The eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good program allows fellows the […]
eScience Institute’s Ed Lazowska in the news
By Robin Brooks
Ed Lazowska, eScience Institute founding director, has been featured recently in the press on a variety of science-related topics.
Lazowska is quoted in the Wall Street Journal on Apple’s new “differential privacy” technology, as well as in the Puget […]
Nascent ImageXD event successful
By Robin Brooks
The University of California, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) recently hosted the inaugural ImageXD event, a topical group focused on image processing.
ImageXD offered a unique opportunity for researchers who use images as a […]
Data Science for Social Good Program kicks off
By Robin Brooks
The eScience Institute’s Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program is in full swing this summer, with fellows from eight different universities participating in four data-intensive research projects. This year’s teams are focused […]
Viziometrics: a search engine for scientific images
While good graphics are considered a critical component of an effective scientific paper, literature search engines have historically been text or citation based.
This week the MIT Technology Review highlighted the first visual search engine for […]
Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics
Data Science Fellow Steven Brunton and colleagues recently published a paper in PNAS applying machine learning to dynamical systems and control in engineering. This work involves a novel approach to discovering governing equations from data.
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Monarch butterfly migration cues depend on the Sun
Eli Shlizerman, Data Science Fellow and Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics and Electrical Engineering, and his biologist colleagues published a model for a sun compass used by monarch butterflies for navigation during their annual migration. […]
The Data Science Incubator: a unique environment for geospatial data science education
Anthony Arendt, eScience Institute Data Science Fellow and Applied Physics Laboratory Senior Research Scientist, contributed an American Geophysical Union blog post about two Earth sciences projects that were part of the recently completed 2016 Winter […]
Panama Papers Leak
USA Today quoted eScience Associate Director Bill Howe in an April 5th article about the 11.5 million documents recently leaked from a Panamanian law firm pertaining to hidden offshore accounts and business transactions. Howe notes […]
Community-level data science and its spheres of influence: beyond novelty squared
Brittany Fiore-Gartland and Anissa Tanweer
Data science has many characterizations, but in academia it is often talked about as pushing the limits of both methodological and domain science, what Josh Bloom, a Professor of Astronomy at […]
Mayor Murray Signs Historic Open Data Executive Order
On February 26th, Mayor Ed Murray signed an Executive Order instituting a new open data policy for all City of Seattle departments.
Bill Howe, Associate Director of the eScience Institute, noted, “The City’s leadership in instituting […]
A New Innovation Model for the 21st Century
eScience Institute Founding Director Ed Lazowska, Senior Data Science Fellow Tom Daniel, and other UW leaders recently wrote an article describing how the “University of Washington…can serve as a model for research institutions across the […]
Bingni Brunton awarded Sloan Fellowship for early-career research
Excerpt from James Urton, UW Today article
Four faculty members at the University of Washington been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The new Sloan Fellows, announced Feb. 23, include Bingni Brunton, assistant […]
Data Science Poster Session Draws Crowds
The eScience Institute hosted a very successful and well-attended Data Science Poster and Networking Session in Mary Gates Hall Commons on February 10th, 2016. As the second (soon to be annual) event of its kind, […]
Studying The Ocean From Within
UW Approves Master of Science in Data Science
We’re extremely pleased to announce that UW’s Board of Regents has granted approval for a new Master of Science in Data Science program. Scheduled to begin in fall of 2016, and offering full- and part-time […]
The eScience Institute is Hiring a Grants Manager
The eScience Institute is pleased to announce that we have an outstanding opportunity for a Grants Manager that will independently manage all fiscal components of the eScience Institute.
About you: You enjoy a fast-paced and dynamic […]