Tag: Python

• NoisePy: Ambient Field Seismology in Python 

  

  Partners Marine Denolle, Assistant Professor, UW Earth and Space Sciences  Yiyu Ni, PhD Student Kuan-Fu Feng, Postdoctoral Scholar SSEC Engineers Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez, Senior Principal Software Engineer NoisePy is a software package used to image the Earth’s subsurface and monitor its changes through time. It performs large-scale cross-correlation of time series data recorded by networks…

• WetAI: Collaborative Neurobiology 

  

  Partners David Haussler, Scientific Director, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz.  Matt Elliot, PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute  David Parks, PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz Department of Computer Science  Lon Blauvelt, Software Engineer, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute  SSEC Engineers Cordero Core, Senior Research Software Engineer  Don Setiawan, Senior…

• Offshore Geodesy: Advancing Research and Collaboration in Seafloor Deformation 

  

  Partners David Schmidt, Principal Investigator, University of Washington Dept. Of Earth and Space Sciences  John DeSanto, Post Doctoral Researcher, University of Washington Dept. Of Earth and Space Sciences  SSEC Engineers Don Setiawan, Senior Research Software Engineer, SSEC The Near-trench Community Geodetic Experiment, informally known as Offshore Geodesy, is a five-year NSF-funded project aimed at establishing…

• Python for Humanities: an Intro for Researchers

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord Last week the eScience Institute and UW Libraries Open Scholarship Commons co-hosted a workshop called “Python, your personal research assistant” for participants studying the humanities to explore the Python programming language and how to use it as a tool to aid in qualitative humanities work. Led by eScience Technical Education Specialist Naomi…

• Mapping Fungal Relationships in Trees

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord Korena Mafune is a 2021 Washington Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the University of Washington’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where she studies the symbiotic interactions among plants, fungi, and bacteria. She received her PhD from UW’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, where she studied the root-associated fungal communities of old-growth…

• Mapping Fungal Relationships in Trees

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord Korena Mafune is a 2021 Washington Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the University of Washington’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where she studies the symbiotic interactions among plants, fungi, and bacteria. She received her PhD from UW’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, where she studied the root-associated fungal communities of…

• Winter School 2022 Program Wrap-Up

  

  The eScience Institute’s “Winter School on Data Science Tools” recently concluded, which was led by Senior Data Science Fellow Jose Manuel Magallanes, renowned Computational Policy Scientist from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, who is a visiting professor with support from the Evans School of Public Policy and the eScience Institute. The 2022 Winter School introduced…

• Data Science Minor Student Profile: Stefan de Villiers

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord The University of Washington hosted the Data Science Minor Showcase several weeks ago, an event for undergraduates to explore the curriculum offered as part of the Data Science Minor program that was launched in Fall 2020. The showcase featured UW faculty outlining the new courses they have developed for the Minor, personal…

• Developing Ensemble Methods for Initial Districting Plan Evaluation

  

  Project leads: Daryl DeFord, Assistant Professor of Data Analytics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Washington State University Data scientists: Bernease Herman and Vaughn Iverson DSSG fellows: Rowana Ahmed, Katherine Chang, Ryan Goehrung, Michael Souffrant. Get the participant bios here. Project Summary: Gerrymandering, the drawing of legislative boundaries for improper purposes, is a fundamental threat to…

• Testimonials from our Summer 2021 Hackweek Programs

  

  This year the eScience Institute hosted another summer of our hackweek programs, including OceanHackweek, SnowEx Hackweek and NeuroHackademy. The sudden shift to a remote setting in spring 2020 brought new challenges for our eScience research team, and we came away with some valuable lessons learned and ideas to incorporate into this year’s iterations of hackweeks.…