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Building Together: Two Days of GeoJupyter Community Innovation

September 4, 2025

Over the course of two lively days, 25 developers, researchers, and enthusiasts from a range of backgrounds came together in Berkeley for the GeoJupyter Hackathon. The event was marked by...Read more about Building Together: Two Days of GeoJupyter Community Innovation

A Summer of Collaboration at BIDS

August 21, 2025

If I had to pick one word to sum up this summer at BIDS, it would be admiration. Admiration for the people, for the work, and for the ways those two things intersect at UC Berkeley.

I studied Philosophy with a minor in Digital and...Read more about A Summer of Collaboration at BIDS

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About the AI Futures Lab

A new BIDS space where faculty and researchers will convene and work collaboratively and discussion between research groups and projects will spark innovation.

About BIDS

BIDS is a home for data-intensive research, open-source software, & data science training programs. Our programs and initiatives are designed to facilitate collaboration across an increasingly diverse and active data science community of domain experts from the life, social, and physical sciences, as well as methodological experts from computer science, statistics, and applied mathematics. Since its launch in 2013, BIDS has cultivated an environment of open inquiry and discovery for data-intensive research.