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How Open-source Scientific Computing is Transforming "Science as Usual"

In this new article in The Atlantic, BIDS Senior Fellow Fernando Pérez relates the origins of the Jupyter project, and how open-source scientific computing is changing the course of transparency, reproducibility and accessibility in the sciences.   _________ The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete James Somers | The Atlantic | April 5, 2018

BIDS Announces 2018 Call for Data Science Fellows

The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) invites applications for our Data Science Fellows Program. Letter of Intent due April 2, 2018

Announcing our new BIDS Executive Director, David Mongeau

To the Berkeley Research Community: It is a genuine pleasure to announce the appointment of David Mongeau as the Berkeley Institute of Data Science's (BIDS) new Executive Director.

BIDS launches new Statistics and Machine Learning Discussion Group

The new Berkeley Statistics and Machine Learning Discussion Group will meet weekly at BIDS to discuss statistical and data science methods and their applications across a wide variety of domain research sciences.

How to Create Institutional Change in Data Science and Encourage Data-Driven Discovery

UC Berkeley Celebrates Love Data Week with Great Talks and Tips

Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science - Spring 2018 Series

Love Data Week - February 12-16, 2018

The University Library, Research IT, and Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) invite you to a series of events on February 12th-16th for Love Data Week 2018. Love Data Week is a nationwide campaign designed to raise awareness about data visualization, management, sharing, and preservation.

Automatic MCMC hyperparameter sensitivity measurements in Stan -- A worked example

We will now follow up our previous post on automatic MCMC hyperparameter sensitivity with a detailed use case taken from the Stan examples. All the code to produce the results below, as well as more examples, can be found in the examples folder on the rgiordan/StanSensitivity git repo. This simple, real-life example has a number of interesting features:

UC Berkeley Launches 'Foundations of Data Science' Certificate Program on edX

UC Berkeley's Division of Data Sciences and edX have recently announced that Berkeley's popular Foundations of Data Science course will be available online this spring as a Foundations of Data Science Professional Certificate Program.