The BIDS Best Practices in Data Science forum focuses on increasing diversity and inclusivity in Berkeley’s active data science community. This discussion series, which launched in Spring 2019, meets to synthesize participants' experiences working in the field of data science, discern how data science practices can be done well, and discover how to improve upon lessons-learned. Discussions are led by BIDS Biology and Environmental Sciences Lead Ciera C. Martinez and discussions cover a broad range of meta-research topics — including ethics,...
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. ...
The BIDS 'Information and Uncertainty in Data Science' Discussion Forum is a forum for open inquiry and discussion about a wide range of recurring data science fundamentals, including information, uncertainty, entropy, bits, probability, machine learning, generalization, and others. Led by BIDS Faculty Affiliate Gerald Friedland, the group facilitates academic discourse on the practical use of the fundamental concepts across a wide variety of research disciplines, and strives for clarity and understanding using real-world scenarios, visual examples,...
BIDS Undergraduate Internships provide a variety of engaging data science research opportunities through UC Berkeley's Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP). BIDS Data Science Fellows, Faculty and Research Affiliates, and Staff mentors enlist undergraduate students to help design and implement collaborative projects in a variety of research areas, helping students develop skills in research, programming, paper writing, project management, and team building. Fall 2022 projects are now posted on the URAP website, and more will be posted through the application...
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.
