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State Street, UC Berkeley and Stanford University Form Consortium for Data Analytics in Risk (CDAR)

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) and State Street Global Exchange today announced a collaboration to establish the Consortium for Data Analytics in Risk (CDAR), a new research center focused on applying advanced data-science techniques to manage and mitigate economic and financial risk. The announcement comes as State Street opens GX Lab, its new presence in Silicon Valley focused on partnering with local talent, industry leaders, and academic institutions to create solutions for its clients in the fields of data science and risk management.

Call for Applications: BIDS Full-Time Postdoctoral Researchers—Spring 2015

We are now accepting applications for full-time postdoctoral researchers at BIDS.

Sign Up for the BIDS Spring 2015 Data Science Faire

  When: May 5, 2015, 1:00–4:30 p.m. Where: 190 Doe Library This year’s Data Science Faire will feature a series of lightning talks as well as poster/demo exhibits from researchers on campus. If you have been doing work related to data science (e.g., conducting a data-intensive project, running an open source meetup on campus, developing tools to enable reproducible science, etc.) and would like to showcase your efforts at the Data Science Faire, we are currently taking submissions for posters and demos.

A Weekend of Coding: BIDS Data Science Fellow Volunteers at Worldwide Girls Hackathon in Oakland

Over Presidents’ Day weekend, 15 girls from Oakland participated in the IGNITE International Girls Hackathon, “a 24-hour, multi-country coding event in which girl coders around the world collaborate to develop a website or application that addresses a specific challenge facing girls and young women.”[i]

Call for Applications: BIDS Data Science Fellows Program—Spring 2015

We are excited to invite applications for our next cohort in the BIDS Data Science Fellow Program.  Successful applicants will join our current cohort of fellows in helping make data analysis easier in the research sciences. BIDS data science fellows are postdoctoral scholars, graduate student researchers, or staff with excellent credentials in their fields as well as strong interests in advancing data-analysis approaches with a community of like-minded individuals from across campus. 

Recent Reddit Ask Me Anything: Moore Data-Driven Discovery Investigators

It’s not every day you get direct access to some of the top data scientists in the nation and the chance to ask them literally any question you choose. The Moore Foundation's Data-Driven Discovery (DDD) Investigators recently took part in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) forum on Reddit, and although the time is up for new questions, the entire proceedings can be viewed here:

Consulting Summit Brings Together Campus Units

Warmer, Drier Climate Altering Forests Statewide

By Robert Sanders  Historical California vegetation data that more than once dodged the dumpster have now proved their true value, documenting that a changing forest structure seen in the Sierra Nevada has actually happened statewide over the past 90 years.

Teaching Researchers How to Tackle Their Big Data with Apache Spark

Tropical Paradise Inspires Virtual Ecology Lab

BIDS Senior Fellow Neil Davies is featured in this Nature News article, which describes how Moorea could soon become the first ecosystem in the world to be replicated in digital form, including a multitude of biological details, from the genes of its plants and animals to the geography of its landscape. ___________________________