2017 Data Science Faire

May 3, 2017

Earlier this week, we held our fourth annual Data Science Faire to celebrate data science at BIDS and UC Berkeley. Like last year, we invited poster/demo presenters from around campus to showcase their data science projects, welcoming participants from Research IT, Digital Humanities, the Space Sciences Laboratory, the California Digital Libary, and many more.

We also featured six lightning talks (see videos below) from BIDS fellows on topics ranging from studying sound in the human brain to academic careers in data science. We capped off the afternoon with a keynote from Lorena Barba, Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The George Washington University.

Thank you to all our participants and guests for making this year's Data Science Faire another success!

Data Science Faire Videos 

Keynote Presentation: Lorena Barba—Data Science for All


Orianna DeMasi—Sensing Wellbeing to Improve Mental Health Care


Nick Adams—Qualitative Text Analysis at a Quantitative Scale


Stuart Geiger—Academic Careers in Data Science: Results From the MSDSE Career Survey


Chris Holdgraf—Studying Sound in the Human Brain Using Predictive Models


Rebecca Barter—Superheat: An R Package for Generating Beautiful, Extendable, Customizable Heatmaps

 



Featured Fellows

Orianna DeMasi

EECS
BIDS Alum – Data Science Fellow

Nick Adams

Social Science
BIDS Alum – Research Fellow

R. Stuart Geiger

BIDS Alum – ETHNOGRAPHER

Chris Holdgraf

Project Jupyter, DSEP, Neuroscience
BIDS Alum – Postdoctoral Researcher

Rebecca Barter

Statistics
BIDS Alum – Data Science Fellow