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COVID-19: We can’t predict what’s next. But here’s what we can do now.

This article is cross-posted from  COVID-19: We can’t predict what’s next. But here’s what we can do now. July 20, 2021  |   Kara Manke  |   Berkeley News ___________________________

BIDS is hiring a new Executive Director

The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) is seeking a new Executive Director. The full online job posting and instructions for applying can be found at this URL: Executive Director (0379U) #21046. The first review date for applications is August 20, 2021.

BIDS Fellow Ángel Mendiola Ross receives ASA's 2021 CUSS Graduate Student Paper Award

Computing and Data Sciences Improve What We Know About Wildfires and How to Fight Them

This article is cross-posted from  Computing and Data Sciences Improve What We Know About Wildfires and How to Fight Them July 13, 2021  |   Rachel Leven  |   CDSS News ___________________________

“Algorithmic Bias Playbook” helps health care organizations identify and prevent racial bias in live algorithms

An Algorithmic Bias Playbook — designed to help health care organizations find and fix biased algorithms that can lead to faulty decision-making  — has recently been released by Berkeley Public Health Professor, Ziad Obermeyer, and a team of researchers including BIDS Alum Stephanie Eaneff and colleagues at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Housing Precarity Risk Model (HPRM), a new tool for mapping eviction and displacement risk across 53 US metro areas

BIDS staff member Tim Thomas and a team from the Urban Displacement Project (UDP) have just released the Housing Precarity Risk Model (HPRM), an interactive mapping tool to help understand the extent of eviction and displacement risk across 53 US metro areas. 

Berkeley Computational Social Science Training Program welcomes next cohort of postdoctoral fellows for the Fall 2021 semester

Ethics of AI: Angela Glover Blackwell in conversation with Rediet Abebe and Terrence Wilkerson

UC to observe official Juneteenth holiday starting on June 28, 2021

This article is cross-posted from  UC will observe Juneteenth as official holiday this year June 18, 2021  |  UC Berkeley Public Affairs ___________________________ Chief People and Culture Officer Eugene Whitlock sent the following message to the campus community today:

"Human Gait Data" — New human gait database for analysis applications in health, biometrics, education, and more

BIDS Innovate for Health Fellow Akram Bayat and a team of researchers under the supervision of Marc Pomplun at the University of Massachusetts Boston, have recently released Human Gait Data, a large human gait database conducted in real-world conditions, and suitable to be used by researchers using deep learning algorithms for various analysis applications in health, biometrics, education, etc.