Tag: education

• 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…

• Access to Out-of-School Opportunities and Student Outcomes

  

  Project lead: Sivan Tuchman, Research Analyst, University of Washington, Bothell, Center on Reinventing Public Education Data scientist leads: Jose Hernandez and Karen Lavi DSSG fellows: Joe Abbate, Sreekanth Krishnaiah, Kellie MacPhee, Andrew Taylor, Haowen Zheng Project Summary: For students living in disadvantaged communities, accessing organizations or institutions that provide enrichment programs for the arts, sports, and tutoring, or social services such as counseling, meals,…

• 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 campus, featured keynote speakers Emily Fox of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and the…

• 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 expert on computational social science, who is a visiting professor and senior data science fellow whose presence at the UW…

• ‘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; and the University of Washington) in the Data Science Environments effort sponsored by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and…