Tag: data science

• Using Computer Vision to Understand Collective Navigation in Salmon

  

  Project Lead: Andrew Berdahl, UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences and Ben Koger, University of Wyoming School of Computing and Department of Zoology and Physiology Data Science Lead: Valentina Staneva From daily foraging movements to long-distance migrations, animals often travel in groups, and their navigational decisions are influenced by those around them. Theory suggests that…

• UW Partners with University of Helsinki for Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Research

  

  Park and protected area management across the world relies on a robust understanding of how to balance conservation with recreation and tourism that supports people’s quality of life. As global leaders on computational research in this area, the Outdoor Recreation and Data Lab at the University of Washington (UW) and the Digital Geography Lab at…

• The 2025 Humanities Data Science Summer Institute: Celebrating Three Years of Interdisciplinary Collaboration

  

  This summer the UW Data Science Minor, in collaboration with eScience, offered the third iteration of the Humanities Data Science Summer Institute (HDSSI). Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty from several university departments gathered to work together on humanities data science research projects. During this collaborative process, students attended training sessions with guidance from HDSSI co-founders…

• Software for Community-Driven Enumeration: Needs Assessment of People Experiencing Homelessness 

  

  Partners: Zack Almquist and June Yang SSEC Engineers: Anant Mittal, Anshul Tambay Graduate Student Leads: Ihsan Kahveci, Emily Porter Undergraduate and Graduate Student Engineers: Arushi Agarwal, Hana Amos, Zack Crouse, Devanshi Desai, Elizabeth Deng, Kristen L. Gustafson, Finley Hutchison, Kaden Kapadia, Hannah Lam, Aryan Palave, KelliAnn Ramirez, Natalie Robbins, Hrudhai Umashankar, Jasmine Vuong, Ella Weinberg…

• 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…

• Staff Spotlight: Anissa Tanweer

  

  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 Senior Social Scientist Anissa Tanweer. From field site to workplace, eScience has come to serve many different roles for Anissa over the years. Being a qualitative interpretivist researcher at…

• Staff Spotlight: Curtis Atkisson

  

  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 Data Scientist Curtis Atkisson. Prior to becoming a researcher of human behavior, Curtis explored human nature through a different medium. After graduating from high school at the age of…

• Staff Spotlight: Bryna Hazelton

  

  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 Bryna Hazelton, our Director of Research Programs and Senior Research Scientist.  Given her upbringing, some might find it unsurprising that Bryna developed a passion for research. She grew up…

• How Busy are National Parks and other Public Lands? Researchers Hone Methods for Estimating Visitation

  

  By Kate Rich Visits to national parks are on the rise. In 2024, the National Park Service set a new record of 332 million recreation visits, with over 6 million more visitors than the previous year.  While these numbers indicate growing interest in outdoor recreation, climbing visitation rates present challenges for land managers working to…

• 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…