News

I-School Course Teaches New Approaches to Measuring Impact

A course taught by BIDS fellow Dav Clark and aligned closely with BIDS Collaborative was recently featured in a Blum Center article. By Tamara Straus

rOpenSci Announces $2.9M Award from the Helmsley Charitable Trust

rOpenSci, a project based at BIDS and Berkeley Initiative for Global Change Biology and led in part by BIDS fellow Karthik Ram, announced today that it was awarded $2.9 million from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust "to expand rOpenSci’s mission of developing tools and community around open data and reproducible research practices." Full announcement below. By Karthik Ram

The Data Structures for Data Science Workshop: Exploring Common Data Structures across Programming Languages and Packages

Co-written by Kyle Barbary

Information Escrows to Combat Code Fraud

UC Berkeley to Co-Lead Regional Data Science "Brain Trust"

We are excited to announce Berkeley's involvement in the National Science Foundation's Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs program (see news release below). BIDS senior fellow Michael Franklin is a co-investigator on this endeavor, and the Western Hub will be closely aligned with BIDS activities. Look for more information on this exciting program in the near future.  By Sarah Yang

NetFridge and Energy Globe Win Top Prizes at Third Annual BERC Cleanweb Hackathon

By John Romankiewicz This past weekend, nearly 50 participants from UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab, and the Bay Area gathered for the third annual BERC Cleanweb Hackathon. The event was a huge success, and 10 teams made pitches at the end of the 24-hour event in front of a panel of judges, including Anna Schneider of WattTime, Elena Lucas of UtilityAPI, and Kate Knox of Advanced Microgrid Solutions.

Blogging Hurts—Why Academic Researchers Are Reluctant to Blog and How to Get Them Interested in Contributing Content

Julia Astro: Enabling Next-Generation Analysis in Astronomy

New DOE Office of Science Support for CAMERA to Develop Computational Mathematics for Experimental Facilities Research

Contact: Linda Vu, +1 510 495 2402, lvu@lbl.gov Experimental science is evolving. With the advent of new technology, scientific facilities are collecting data at increasing rates and higher resolution. However, making sense of this data is becoming a major bottleneck. New mathematics and algorithms are needed to extract useful information from these experiments.  

Fall 2015 Data Science Lecture Series Lineup

We have a great lineup of speakers from industry and academia for our Data Science Lecture Series. The lectures are held Fridays, 1:00–2:30 p.m. in 190 Doe Library (one-hour lectures followed by 30 minutes for Q&A). Please keep an eye on our Events page to learn more about each of these lectures as detailed information becomes available.