Blog: Data Science Insights

Driving the imaging revolution in biology

BIDS Data Science Fellow Joh Schöneberg uses advanced lattice light-sheet microscopy (LLSM) to image cells and tissues in 4D, and develops novel image analytics tools - such as the pyLattice library - to make new biological discoveries possible. 

Addressing California’s water challenges and energy issues

Building bridges between astrophysics and nuclear medicine

BIDS-LLNL Data Science Fellow and Astrophysicist Andreas Zoglauer launches telescopes into the upper stratosphere to observe supernovae, pulsars and black holes. His MEGAlib software toolkit is used to design gamma-ray detectors for astrophysics, environmental monitoring, and cancer treatment.

Meeting the Modern Naturalists at the Digital Data in Biodiversity Conference

On June 3-6, 2018, I attended the Second Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, which brought together a complex culture of individuals who share a common mission of providing natural history data to the world. The attendees ranged from collection managers, curators, IT specialists, academic researchers, to funders. These 'modern naturalists' are obsessed with data and arming themselves to use this data to fight for our planet.

New insights on the practices of documentation of open-source software

The BIDS MEG/EEG/iEEG Data Format Survey

Note: all analyses and data used in this post can be found at this github repository. You can also run the code interactively at this Binder link.

New report on Career Paths and Prospects in Academic Data Science

The unreasonable effectiveness of investment in open-source infrastructure

A farewell to the Berkeley Institute for Data Science

2018 ImageXD Workshop – using images to cross science boundaries and domains