News

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. ___________________________

Getting Girls Involved in STEM through Robotics: Black Girls Code Event

Last week, in the midst of broadcasts about national protests for civil rights and racial democracy, educators from across the world shared stories about the worldwide action to enhance digital democracy through Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek) and Hour of Code.

Welcome!

$4.5 Million for Big-Data Projects in Ecology, Astronomy, Microscopy

By Robert Sanders With new computational tricks, Laura Waller hopes to turn simple microscopes into cutting-edge imaging machines. Joshua Bloom wants to train computers to be surrogate astronomers so they can discover new celestial phenomena within the streaming torrent of data from telescopes.

10-Second Alert: The View from the Berkeley Seismo Lab

By Public Affairs, UC Berkeley 

Planning Professor-Turned-Entrepreneur to Help SF Tackle Urban Problems with Big Data

By Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations

Big Turnout for BIDS Launch

By Cathy Cockrell, NewsCenter 

New Data Science Institute to Help Scholars Harness "Big Data"

By: Robert Sanders In a world awash in data, UC Berkeley is meeting the flood head-on by establishing a new institute to support faculty, researchers and students in their efforts to mine this information in areas as diverse as astronomy and economics, genetics and demography.