Tag Archive: Data Science
UC IT Blogger
August 10, 2022
All ArticlesData Science, Genetics, UC Santa Cruz, UCSC
By Emily Cerf. Scientists may better understand and test for the genetic variations that cause cancer and other heritable diseases through the application of a novel strategy for securely sharing and analyzing genomic data developed at the UC Santa Cruz…
Read more about New responsible data sharing technique will enable better understanding of disease-causing genetic variants
UC IT Blogger
April 27, 2022
All ArticlesCOVID-19, Data Science, Education, UCSD
For over a year of the pandemic, a group of UC San Diego researchers met weekly with epidemiologists at the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) to discuss COVID-19 dynamics, analyze populations at higher risk and…
Read more about UC San Diego Data Science Undergrads Help Keep K-12 Students COVID-Safe
UC IT Blogger
August 18, 2021
All Articlesalgorithm, climate change, collaboration, computing and data sciences, Data Science, forest management, machine learning, microbiology, Rachel Leven, simulations, UC Berkeley, UCB, wildfires
By Rachel Leven. Our understanding, planning, and response to wildfires benefit from connections with data and computing sciences, UC Berkeley researchers say. Recent developments in machine learning and simulations can help first responders detect fires earlier, predict fires’ paths and limit…
Read more about Computing and Data Sciences Improve What We Know About Wildfires and How to Fight Them
UC IT Blogger
March 3, 2021
All ArticlesAmy Neeser, Data Science, Emily Lopez, Events, UC Berkeley, UCB, virtual event, WIDS, WIDS Berkeley, WIDS Conference, Women in Data Science, Women's History Month
By Emily Lopez and Amy Neeser. This year, faced with the challenge of social distancing, Women in Data Science (WiDS) has reimagined its traditional conference and announced an inaugural 24-hour global event on March 8, International Women’s Day. This worldwide event will feature women researchers from around the world who will present…
Read more about Don’t Miss the Women in Data Science Conference: March 8 – 12
UC IT Blogger
July 1, 2020
All ArticlesData Science, Data Science Summer Institute, Kenneth Mashinchi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, LLNL, UC Merced, UCM
By Kenneth Mashinchi. Just 90 miles from the future of higher education — UC Merced — lies one of the epicenters of the future of technology, innovation and national security. Regardless of the route you take, the journey from UC…
Read more about ‘Yes, You Can’: UC Merced Students Learning, Growing at Livermore Lab
UC IT Blogger
January 29, 2020
All ArticlesCultured Data Symposium, data, Data Science, Events, registration, technology, UC San Diego, UCSD
On February 7 and 8, UC San Diego will host the Cultured Data Symposium, bringing together experts from data science and the arts and humanities to examine the emerging relationship between data and culture. The symposium will feature two keynote…
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UC IT Blogger
January 8, 2020
All ArticlesAhmed Eldawy, data, Data Science, Dataset, Holly Ober, maps, UC Riverside, UCR, UCR STAR
By Holly Ober. Let’s say you’re doing research that requires millions of geotagged tweets. Or perhaps you’re a journalist who wants to map murders in Chicago from 2001 to the present. You need to find large spatio-temporal datasets — but…
Read more about Free Dataset Archive Helps Researchers Quickly Find a Needle in a Haystack
UC IT Blogger
September 5, 2018
All Articles, Feature ArticlesData Science, Fernando Perez, Jupyter, Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley, UCB
By Robert Sanders. You may not have heard of Jupyter Notebooks, but they’re taking the data science world by storm and becoming the go-to tool for sharing and improving computer code, documents, data visualizations and more. Students in UC Berkeley’s fastest-growing…
Read more about Pioneering Data Science Tool — Jupyter — Receives Top Software Prize
Tom Andriola
October 20, 2015
All ArticlesData Science, Kevin Koy, UC Berkeley, UCB, webinar
Date: Wednesday, October 28 Time: 2 – 3 p.m. Presenter: Kevin Koy, Executive Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) is a central hub of research and education at UC Berkeley…
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UC IT Blogger
June 4, 2015
All ArticlesAlexa Rivetti, Data Science, DataEdge, UC Berkeley, UCB
Posted by Lexi Rivetti, UCB student intern at UCOP. Tucked away inside South Hall, the oldest campus building in the UC system, is Berkeley’s School of Information. To undergraduates, South Hall is a mystery, for classes in the school only…
Read more about DataEdge 2015: Inside the Data Science Phenomenon