Tag: Anthony Arendt

• Staff Spotlight: Anthony Arendt

  

  By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is Anthony Arendt, our Director of Community Engagement Programs and Senior Data Science Fellow.  Anthony knows the importance of hard earned data all too well. As a Research Professor at…

• Sign Up for the 2023 ICESat-2 Cloud Hackweek

  

  Don’t miss your chance to sign up for our ICESat-2 Cloud Hackweek! This in-person, collaborative event will take place on the UW campus in Seattle from August 7th through 11th, 2023. Hackweeks are participant-driven events that strive to create welcoming spaces for participants to learn new things, build community and gain hands-on experience with collaboration…

• Evolving the Hackweek Model with ICESat-2 2022

  

  By: Scott Henderson and Louisa Gaylord The eScience Institute hosts a variety of hackweeks every year, which are designed to immerse participants in collaborative project work around a specific topic. Hackweeks try to blend elements of a hackathon, where participants work collaboratively in project teams, with tutorials on a variety of data science topics in…

• Reflecting on a Novel Year of Virtual Hackweeks

  

  By: Jane Koh In early March 2020, as the dimensions of the Covid-19 pandemic started to become clear, the Waterhackweek organizing team was only three weeks out from hosting its in-person event when they made the tough decision to postpone the hackweek until August. They joined several other hackweeks, all faced with the challenge of…

• Academic Data Science Alliance 2020 Annual Meeting

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord The Academic Data Science Alliance (ADSA) hosted their annual meeting from October 14th through 16th, which brought together data science methodologists and domain researchers from all disciplines and career stages to share breakthroughs and new approaches in data science research and education, with a strong emphasis on responsible data science. The virtual…

• Strengthening capacities, knowledge, and data sharing platforms for sustainable development

  

  Project leads: Matt Cooper, data manager, Vital Signs and Tabby Njunge, technical operations manager, Vital Signs Data scientist leads: Anthony Arendt (primary) and Joe Hellerstein (secondary) DSSG fellows: Cara Arizmendi, Mitchell Goist, Krista Jones, Robert Shaffer Project Summary: To meet the food security and nutrition challenges of today — with nearly one billion chronically hungry people worldwide — and tomorrow will…

• 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 home to “the world’s largest reservoir of perennial glaciers and snow outside of the Earth’s polar ice sheets”. The…

• Use of ORCA data for improved transit system planning and operation

  

  Project Leads: Mark Hallenbeck & Anat Caspi – CEE (Civil & Environmental Engineering), Taskar Center Data Scientist Leads: Bernease Herman (primary) and Anthony Arendt (secondary) DSSG Fellows: Carolina Johnson, Victoria Sass, Yiqin Shen & Sean Wang Project Goals: Seven regional transportation agencies use a common electronic fare payment system, called ORCA – One Regional Card for All. When ORCA…

• Open Sidewalk Graph for Accessible Trip Planning

  

  Project Leads: Nick Bolten, Anat Caspi DSSG Fellows: Amir Amini, Yun Hao, Vaishnavi Ravichandran, Andre Stephens ALVA Students: Nick Krasnoselsky, Doris Layman eScience Data Scientist Mentors: Anthony Arendt, Jake Vanderplas This project is an extension of the “Hackcessible” project that was awarded top prize in this year’s “HackTheCommute” event in Seattle. Hackcessible has built an application that helps people…