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Ten computer codes that transformed science

BIDS Faculty Affiliate Fernando Pérez is featured in this new article in Nature that highlights his development of iPython as one of the Ten computer codes that transformed science. ___________________________ Segment from the article... "Fernando Pérez was a graduate student “in search of procrastination” in 2001 when he decided to take on a core component of Python.

Hany Farid Appointed Associate Dean and Head of UC Berkeley's School of Information

Data science careers rank high in US News "Best Jobs in America in 2021"

In a recent survey of The Best Jobs in America in 2021 by US News and World Report, former BIDS Data Science Fellow Chris Holdgraf, now the director of the nonprofit International Interactive Computing Collaboration (2i2c), was the focus of a feature article on data scientists. 

A new framework for evaluating the impacts of climate change on California water and energy supplies

Elections Should be Grounded in Evidence, Not Blind Trust

BIDS Undergraduate Internships - Apply January 12-25, 2021

BIDS Undergraduate Internships provide a variety of engaging data science research opportunities through UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP). BIDS Data Science Fellows, Faculty and Research Affiliates, and Staff mentors enlist undergraduate students to help design and implement collaborative projects in a variety of research areas, helping students develop skills in research, programming, paper writing, project management, and team building. 

Translating Numbers Into Words: The Art of Writing About Data Science

This article is cross-posted from  Translating Numbers Into Words: The Art of Writing About Data Science  December 10, 2020   |   Jon Bashor   |  CDSS News ___________________________

Pandemic provides real-time experiment for diagnosing, treating misinformation

This article cross-posted from Pandemic provides real-time experiment for diagnosing, treating misinformation  December 9, 2020  |   Jon Bashor   |  Berkeley News

FODA’s Mahoney, Derezinski, and Khanna receive NeurIPS 2020 Best Paper Award

BIDS Faculty Affiliate Michael Mahoney and former BIDS Fellows Michał Dereziński and Rajiv Khanna of Berkeley’s Foundations of Data Analysis Institute (FODA) have been awarded a “NeurIPS 2020 Best Paper Award” for their contribution, Improved Guarantees and a Multiple-Descent Curve for Column Subset Selection and the Nyström Method. 

Exploring the Intersection of Teaching Undergraduate Data Science and Economics

This article is cross-posted from  Exploring the Intersection of Teaching Undergraduate Data Science and Economics  December 2, 2020  |   Lauren Pitcher   |   CDSS News ___________________________