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The first-ever UC Open Source Contributors & Maintainers Virtual Meetup welcomed faculty, staff, and researchers from across the University of California system into a shared space for connection, discovery, and collaboration. Organized by the UC...Read more about Building Bridges: Highlights from the Inaugural UC Open Source Meetup

On the final morning of the National Workshop on Data Science Education, BIDS Executive Director, Kirstie Whitaker, presented a panel that...Read more about Building the Open Network: Friday Morning Panel Showcases Leadership Across the Open Source Ecosystem

AI Methods for Research of Folkloristic Narratives, an international workshop held on June 13 at the University of Ljubljana, brought together researchers from the US,...Read more about Workshop on AI and LLMs for the study of folklore highlights collaboration between BIDS and Slovenian Researchers

The BIDS Leadership Team is proud to announce a new hub for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, data science, and society. In partnership with UC Investments, the AI Futures Lab is a pioneering model that directly connects UC’s intellectual...Read more about Announcing the AI Futures Lab: A visionary partnership between BIDS and UC Investments

Read our May newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about This Month at BIDS - May 2025

On March 17, Clancy Wilmott, Assistant Professor in the department of Geography at UC Berkeley, presented her work "Data practice as theoretical inquiry: machine learning, polygons and other notebook adventures...Read more about Clancy Wilmott presents "Data practice as theoretical inquiry: machine learning, polygons and other notebook adventures in cartography and GIS"

Read our April newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about This Month at BIDS - April 2025

On March 10, Hannes Bajohr, Assistant Professor in the Department of German at UC Berkeley, presented his work on “Artificial and Post-artificial Texts”, considering the reader’s...Read more about Hannes Bajohr presents his work "Artificial and Post-Artificial Texts: The Reader’s Expectation after AI"

Read our March newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about This Month at BIDS - March 2025

In February 2025, I was part of the NetworkX leadership team that convened in Berkeley for a developers' retreat. We had three goals: to unblock some of our thorny development tasks, reflect on and update our long term vision, and spend time...Read more about Fast and effective connections: the NetworkX developers’ retreat in February 2025

Read our February newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar...Read more about This Month at BIDS - February 2025

On February 3, Nina Beguš, a researcher and lecturer at UC Berkeley, presented her work "Artificial Humanities" to attendees at the BIDS Suite in Sutardja Dai Hall and online. We in the...Read more about Nina Beguš presents her work "Artificial Humanities"

The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) welcomed Kirstie Whitaker as its executive director last month. BIDS is an interdisciplinary data science community and part of the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society....Read more about Meet Kirstie Whitaker, new executive director at BIDS

Read our January newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about This Month at BIDS - January 2025

Read our November newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about This Month at BIDS - November 2024

At the May 2024 BIDS Seminar, Stéfan van der Walt presented the ...Read more about Stéfan van der Walt and Scientific Python: Community, Tools, and Open Science

On October 9, Madelon Hulsebos, a researcher and former BIDS-Accenture Data Science Research Scholar, presented her work “Retrieval Systems for Structured Data: the critical missing...Read more about Madelon Hulsebos presents her work "Retrieval Systems for Structured Data"

Read our October newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about This Month at BIDS - October 2024

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded a $1.125 million grant to a team of researchers at the UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Over the next 15 months, BIDS will host a collaborative effort between BIDS, LBNL, and their partners...Read more about New Sloan grant gives STRUDEL resources to improve tools and expand community

Read our September newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar...Read more about This Month at BIDS - September 2024

UC Berkeley experts received a $1.5 million grant from the California Education Learning Lab (Learning Lab) to launch a first-of-its-kind computing technology hub for the state’s public colleges and universities.

Read the full, original article on the CDSS website:Read more about UC Berkeley to launch compute hub with California Education Learning Lab

In April 2024, the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) proudly established UC Berkeley’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO), under the leadership of Executive Director Jarrod Millman. Last month, Millman, along with colleagues...Read more about UC Berkeley’s OSPO Executive Director Joins Global Leaders at a UN Symposium

Read our August newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about This Month at BIDS - August 2024

A community dedicated to truthful, reliable data analysis and decision-making gathered together on May 31, 2024, for a one-day workshop that showcased veridical (truthful) data science (VDS). The Inaugural Berkeley-Stanford Workshop on Veridical Data Science was jointly hosted by the Berkeley...Read more about Exploring Veridical Data Science: Recordings from the Berkeley-Stanford Workshop

On May 14, BIDS-Accenture fellow Cody Markelz presented his work “Data Landscapes: Visual Storytelling of California’s Fiery and Frosty Extremes”. His presentation skillfully combined...Read more about Cody Markelz presents his work "Data Landscapes: Visual Storytelling of California’s Fiery and Frosty Extremes"

Read our May newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about This Month at BIDS - May 2024

On May 9, 2024, the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) partnered with the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) and the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public to host “...Read more about Special Event Recap: Understanding the XZ Security Breach and Open Source Security

Invited guest Antonia Winkler (CERN PhD student) stopped by BIDS last month to talk about her work and CERN with seminar attendees, and to...Read more about CERN Researcher Antonia Winkler presents her work at BIDS

On April 24, 2024, BIDS Faculty Director Fernando Pérez was presented with a 2023 Exceptional Public Service Medal, one of NASA's major recognitions for non-government personnel and granted for...Read more about Fernando Pérez honored by NASA with the Exceptional Public Service Award

Chanwut (Mick) Kittivorawong, student of BIDS Faculty Affiliate Alvin Cheung, led a seminar recently at...Read more about Chanwut (Mick) Kittivorawong presents his work “Spatialyze: A Geospatial Video Analytics System with Spatial-Aware Optimizations”

Read our April newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about This Month at BIDS - April 2024

UC Berkeley is joining an ambitious effort to advance open source research, education and public service across the University of California system.

The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) will lead the university’s involvement in this initiative, launching an office to house the...Read more about UC Berkeley joins effort to advance open source initiatives across UC system

This is an exciting time for the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS); as we embark in a new era within Berkeley's recently founded College of Computing, Data Science and Society, we are looking for a talented Executive Director to...Read more about BIDS is hiring an Executive Director, join us!

During a recent Zoom session, BIDS Research Scholar Arash Ardakani gave a special presentation DiffSampler: A Differential and Inherently Parallel Sampling Method for Verification...Read more about Arash Ardakani gives special presentation on DiffSampler

On March 21, 2024, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced...Read more about Project Jupyter Wins Technical Advancement to Enable Open Science Award

Read our March newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about This Month at BIDS - March 2024

On March 7, 2024, the Center for Cultural Analytics hosted its Spring lecture event. BIDS Associate Faculty Director Tim Tangherlini welcomed Tina Eliassi-Rad, a professor of Computer Science at...Read more about The Center for Cultural Analytics Spring Lecture featured Professor Tina Eliassi-Rad

Professor Heather Haveman presented fascinating work with Will Rathje on gender in employee discourse in a recent BIDS seminar, using employee review data from the tech sector...Read more about Professor Heather Haveman presents her work "Shades of Gender in Employee Discourse"

During a recent BIDS seminar, Professor Sandrine Dudoit (BIDS Faculty Council Member and CDSS Associate...Read more about Professor Sandrine Dudoit presents her work “Single-Cell Transcriptomics: Questions and Learning from Data”

Read our February newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about This Month at BIDS - February 2024

During a recent BIDS seminar, Dr. Kyla Bourne (BIDS-Accenture Data Science Research Scholar) discussed the absence of a centralized public database designed to track how prosecutors...Read more about Kyla Bourne presents her work toward developing a national police accountability database

On December 4, 2023, the BIDS community gathered at the Alumni House to celebrate the winter holidays and Saul Perlmutter's tenure as BIDS Founding Faculty Director. Professor Perlmutter spearheaded the...Read more about BIDS Community Celebrates Saul Perlmutter's Tenure as the Founding Faculty Director

During a recent BIDS seminar featuring Tristan Chambers -- CLEAN Data Architect -- the topic "Unpacking police violence and misconduct records: Solving information extraction challenges using Large Language Models (...Read more about Tristan Chambers presents his work on solving information extraction challenges using Large Language Models

Discussion about innovative research within the realm of data science is the focus of BIDS-CHAI Data Science Research Scholar George Obaido's new "Data Science Toolbox" series. Guest Collins Udanor PhD -- an Associate...Read more about George Obaido welcomes Collins Udanor to his "Data Science Toolbox" series

On November 28, 2023, BIDS sponsored a special event at Sutardja Dai Hall. Professor Rita Lucarelli, a Center for Cultural...Read more about Professor Rita Lucarelli organizes workshop centered around digitization of ancient Egyptian coffins

Read our November newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about This Month at BIDS - November 2023

Discussion about innovative research within the realm of data science is the focus of BIDS-CHAI Data Science Research Scholar George Obaido's new "Data Science Toolbox" series. Guest...Read more about George Obaido welcomes Lily Xu to his "Data Science Toolbox" series

In the second BIDS seminar of the 2023 Fall semester, George Obaido, PhD -- BIDS-CHAI Data Science Research Scholar -- presented his work on creating an accessible, open data platform tailored to the specific needs and challenges of countries in the Global South. The platform seeks to promote...Read more about George Obaido, PhD, presents his work on the "Development of an Open Data Platform for the Global South"

Read our October newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about This Month at BIDS - October 2023

October 4, 2023 - The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and global consulting leader Accenture recently commemorated their remarkable partnership with a collaborative event that brought together leading thinkers on Responsible AI...Read more about BIDS and Accenture co-host Responsible AI and Generative AI Leaders Circle

Discussion about innovative research within the realm of data science is the focus of BIDS-CHAI Data Science Research Scholar George Obaido's new "Data Science Toolbox" series. The series began on...Read more about George Obaido welcomes Dr. Blessing Ogbuokiri as the first guest on his "Data Science Toolbox" series

On September 27, 2023, BIDS’ Center for Cultural Analytics hosted its inaugural...Read more about Professor David Blei presents "Beyond Roll Call: Inferring Politics from Text"

In the first BIDS seminar of the 2023 Fall semester, Dr. Tim Thomas -- Director of Berkeley’s Eviction Research Network, Research Director for the Urban...Read more about Dr. Tim Thomas presents his research "Developing a National Eviction, Displacement, and Housing Precarity Risk Model in a Post-Pandemic World"

Read our September newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar...Read more about September 2023 Newsletter

UC Berkeley researchers launched a pioneering interdisciplinary training program this week that will blend criminal justice and computer science in ways that experts say will help reduce long-standing, systemic inequities in the criminal legal system.

The program, called...Read more about UC Berkeley launches AI training program to address criminal justice system inequalities with support from

BERKELEY, Calif., August 16, 2023 - Associate Professor Fernando Pérez from the Statistics Department at UC Berkeley will be the next Faculty Director for the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). The...Read more about Berkeley Institute for Data Science appoints Fernando Pérez as the next Faculty Director

Read our June newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about June 2023 Newsletter

Read our May newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about May 2023 Newsletter

Read our April newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about April 2023 Newsletter

Researchers from across domains (XD) that use imaging data participated in ImageXD 2023. The two...Read more about Image XD - 2023

Read our March newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar,...Read more about March 2023 Newsletter

BIDS Senior Research Data Scientist Karthik Ram and collaborators from the Center for Scientific Engagement and Collaboration (CSCCE), Lou Woodley and Camille Santistevan have...Read more about Karthik Ram to lead a new training program for NSF’s Pathways to Open Source Program

A new UC Berkeley lab is building data tools that allow people without programming backgrounds to benefit from the latest computer science advances.

The EPIC Data Lab – short for Effective Programming, Interaction, and Computation...Read more about EPIC Data Lab: Harnessing the power of computer science to help society

BIDS team members Stéfan J. van der Walt and Alex de Siqueira have released Mothra 1.0, the first major version of the software that was published in cooperation with...Read more about BIDS releases Mothra 1.0

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Sandrine Dudoit named Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at CDSS
August 25, 2022 | Anna...Read more about Sandrine Dudoit named Associate Dean for Faculty and Research at CDSS

BIDS Faculty Affiliate and UC Berkeley Travers Associate Professor of Political Science Alison Post has been named a ...Read more about Alison Post named 2022-2023 Hoover National Fellow

The Berkeley Institute of Data Science (BIDS) is hiring: ...Read more about BIDS is hiring: Data Architect, CLEAN Initiative

Download the 2021 Berkeley Institute of Data Science (BIDS) Annual report here.
Read more about BIDS - Annual Report - 2021

Graphs are models of data, and are used to analyze and visualize different features / variables across a dataset. They have proven to be useful in providing at-a-glance summaries (e.g. ‘signals’) of big and complex datasets. Typically a Euclidean graph (with X and Y axes, representing one...Read more about GraphXD: Network analysis for data science applications across STEAM

UC Berkeley is launching a new Computational Social Science Training Program (CSSTP) to train predoctoral students with advanced computational and...Read more about UC Berkeley announces new NIH-funded Computational Social Science Training Program