Tag: Urbanalytics

• Researchers receive five-year grant to study homelessness and education

  

  By Emily Keller The University of Washington (UW) eScience Institute has received a five-year, $754,601 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance data analytics at organizations serving the homeless in the Puget Sound region, with a focus on educational outcomes. Through this grant, researchers at the UW will collaborate with foundation grantees that…

• Data Science for Social Good fellows meet in Vancouver

  

  By Robin Brooks The first Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative Summit took place on the University of British Columbia campus July 13 – 14. eScience Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) student fellows and project leads joined with UW faculty to meet their counterparts in UBC’s pilot DSSG program. Events included mid-term presentations by the four UW…

• Microsoft $1M gift for new UW, UBC urban data partnership

  

  By Robin Brooks The University of Washington and the University of British Columbia are partnering on a new collaboration called the Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative (CUAC), which will connect researchers, students and public stakeholders working on urban issues across the region. A $1 million donation from Microsoft will allow the two universities to work together using data…