Tag: data science

• 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…

• 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…

• Announcing the 2024 Data Science Incubator Projects

  

  The eScience’s annual Data Science 2024 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…

• Data Science Profile: Michelle Ndugulile

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord Michelle Ndugulile (‘23) recently graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Data Science. Prior to her undergraduate studies at UW, Michelle was interested in a variety of STEM subjects, such as math, anatomy, and physiology. But it was biology that captured her interest the…

• Data Science Profile: Ben Roscoe

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord Photo credit: Tara Brown Photography The University of Washington launched the Data Science Minor in Fall 2020 to help undergraduate students gain data science skills and literacy to help supplement the area of their major. Since its inception, the minor has been one of the fastest growing programs at UW, as students…

• Analyzing Groundwater Insecurities in the Colorado River Basin

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord Groundwater is a vital source of water for a large part of the United States; it’s used for drinking and irrigation, keeps wells and springs filled, and generally contains fewer contaminants than surface water. Declines in groundwater levels are a growing problem in recent years, resulting in lakes and reservoir levels dropping,…

• Using Data Science to Examine Heat Pump Feasibility Across Alaska

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord 2023 is on track to be one of the hottest years across the globe. Warming occurs at double the global rate in Arctic regions, necessitating the need for viable decarbonization options that help move away from dependence on fossil fuels. This summer, one of UW Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) teams…

• Call for Presenters: UW Data Science Seminar 2023-24

  

  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…

• Generating regionally integrative datasets to understand groundwater insecurities in the Colorado River Basin

  

  Project leads: Akshay Mehra, Assistant Professor of UW Earth and Space Sciences, and Sameer Shah, Assistant Professor of UW Environmental and Forest Sciences Data scientist: Vaughn Iverson DSSG fellows: Yuanning Huang, Kimberly Kreiss, Maia Powell, and Aanchal Setia. Get the participant bios here. The Colorado River Basin (CRB) is experiencing unprecedented water scarcity. Arguably, the CRB is an…

• Heating Pumps in Alaska and Beyond

  

  Project leads: Erin Trochim, Research Assistant Professor, Alaska Center for Energy and Power, University of Alaska Fairbanks Data scientist: Maddie Gaumer DSSG fellows: Aminat Adefolu, Silas Gifford, Katherine Grisanzio, and Brian Leung. Get the participant bios here. Decarbonization, a pressing global issue, necessitates the transition from carbon-intensive power to net-zero sources. The Arctic is an area of particular concern,…