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Berkeley defining the next academic frontier: Two NSF awards to UC Berkeley set the stage for a new era of Data Science

The Practice of Reproducible Research: Available in Print on October 17, 2017

Farewell and Thanks to BIDS

As today marks my last day in the role of Executive Director for the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), I’d like to take the opportunity to reflect on BIDS’ journey so far and to offer my thanks to the countless people who have worked so hard, and who continue to advance a data science approach to research. It has been an honor and a privilege to work with such an incredible community, and to help establish BIDS as an active, thriving - and growing! - research organization here on the UC Berkeley campus. 

Karthik Ram awarded 2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science

Graph Clustering Algorithms

Algorithmic systems in Wikipedia: going ‘beyond opening up the black box’

A Post-publication Peer Review Success Story

BIDS Announces GraphXD (Graphs across Domains)

Graphs (or networks) are composed of vertices connected by edges. Pictorially, a graph might be represented like this: Graph with 5 vertices and 6 edges

As biotic communities form, pollinators swap one plant for another

This press release from the UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources features BIDS Alumni Lauren Ponisio, whose recent article in Ecology Letters describes her research toward a clearer understanding of how networks of plants and pollinators form over time to create biotic communities. The results of their research could help scientists and conservationists rebuild communities when a species goes locally extinct.

Bin Yu and Ben Brown receive NSF BIGDATA award to develop powerful computational tools for understanding complex biological systems