Archived Programs

Historical Information

Below is a partial list of programs and initiatives once housed at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). Please contact bids@berkeley.edu, if you have questions about this work.

Legislative Reform in the Midwest – A New Approach to Gun Offenses

Kyla Bourne's research in the Midwest focuses on how first-time gun offenses are criminally sanctioned. This reform is particularly significant in urban areas like Chicago, where over 90% of cases charged involve black men. Her research is pivotal in understanding how legislative changes can impact probation use, technical violations, and how concurrent charges are handled. This research offers an evaluation of gun law enforcement and it's social implications.

Building a National Database to Monitor Prosecutors’ Responses to Police Misconduct

Kyla Bourne is developing a national database to scrutinize prosecutors' decisions in cases of police misconduct, particularly in fatal use-of-force incidents and in-custody deaths. This database is a crucial tool for stakeholders analyzing legal accountability and the frequency of criminal charges against officers in such cases. Bourne is scraping and coding thousands of prosecutorial memos, utilizing both qualitative coding and advanced machine learning...

Data Science Fellowship Program

The BIDS Data Science Fellowship Program is a 2-year research training program open to postdocs (and in some cases, late-stage graduate students) at UC Berkeley, LBNL or UCSF, who are dedicated to advancing data science and undertaking innovative, cross-disciplinary data-intensive research. Applicants representing diverse and varied research interests are encouraged to apply. Successful applicants will be offered a two-year fellowship appointment at BIDS beginning in the Fall 2020 semester. See a list of current BIDS Data Science Fellows in our online directory.

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BIDS-Upwardly Global Data Science Webinars

BIDS and Upwardly Global (UpGlo) partnered in fall 2020 to launch this series of webinars to support job seekers in the field of data science, and the series is created especially for US immigrants and refugees who have college degrees from their home countries (but are as yet unemployed or working in survival jobs far below their skill level) who are new to the US job market. BIDS researchers and Upwardly Global (UpGlo) leaders and job coaches create this series with support from Accenture Applied Intelligence (AAI), with which both organizations engage in strategic relationships. ...

Innovate For Health

Breaking Down the Silos and Building an Innovation Bridge in Healthcare

At Innovate For Health (I4H), housed within the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), we are dedicated to transforming healthcare through advanced data science and transdisciplinary collaboration. Founded in 2019, we focus on leveraging health data to address urgent healthcare needs.

Our Mission

We aim to inspire, educate, and support an exceptional group of data scientists to apply their skills towards significant health challenges. Our fellows...

ImageXD – Image Analysis Across Domains

BIDS ImageXD – Image Analysis Across Domains convenes researchers, scientists, and theorists (of all learning levels) who work with images as a primary source of data, to learn about the latest developments in a wide range of research domains and to promote interdisciplinary collaboration.

Incredible advances are being made in image processing techniques, tools, and sampling modalities which, together with an increased accessibility to modern imaging equipment, has made image data ubiquitous across many fields, with scales ranging from microscopy to radio astronomy...

TextXD – Text Analysis Across Domains

BIDS TextXD – Text Analysis Across Domains brings together researchers from across a wide range of disciplines, who work with text as a primary source of data, whether they identify as computer, social, data, or information scientists, including linguists. We work to identify common principles, algorithms and tools to advance text-intensive research, and break down the boundaries between domains, to foster exchange and new collaborations among like-minded researchers. TextXD aims to:

Foster a cross-disciplinary community of text processing experts from...

GraphXD – Graph Analysis Across Domains

BIDS GraphXD – Graph Analysis Across Domains is a cross-domain initiative that promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and training for researchers, scientists, and theorists interested in using graphs and network analysis for applications in a variety of fields across STEAM including (but not limited to) anthropology, art, biology, computer science, economics, history, linguistics, mathematics, physics, and sociology.

Graphs and networks are models of data – usually composed of nodes and vertices connected by edges – that can be used to analyze and to visualize...

STRUDEL

Scientific sofTware Research for User experience, Design, Engagement, and Learning

STRUDEL enables teams to create user-centered software for scientific communities. Plan, design, and build better scientific software projects using STRUDEL Planning Framework and Design System.

Mission and Vision

STRUDEL is an open source science project advocating for and advancing the inclusion of User Experience (UX) practices & tools in scientific software development. It supports scientific software development, and the growing science software UX community, through advocacy and the...