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Insights from the CryoCloud JupyterHub community at the OSPO Meetup

May 13, 2026
Ankita Biyani & Chenrong Zheng

In February, the Berkeley Open Source Program Office (OSPO) hosted a monthly meetup “Open Science as a Process, Not a Product” with presenter Tasha Snow. Snow, a research scientist who co-founded the ...

Cultural Analytics Talk with Taylor Arnold: Measuring Style and Structure in Television Comedy

May 7, 2026
Mia Salinas & Yeonwoo Lee

From Friends to Modern Family to Saturday Night Live, these are just a few examples of famous and popular TV comedies. Even though they all belong to the comedy genre, these shows differ greatly in structure, including camera techniques, scripting, and overall style. There are different ways to identify what a comedy series is, such as the use of a laugh track or a live audience. However, another way to analyze comedy is through computational methods. A Professor of Data Science at the University of...

Bob Sturm presents: “I am Troubled”

May 5, 2026
Chenrong Zheng & Saumya Lohia

On March 6, 2026, the Cultural Analytics series welcomed Bob L. T. Sturm from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, for a talk and discussion about his research in AI-generated music. The Cultural Analytics series is a joint initiative between the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and the School of Information...

Accelerating Science Through Usable Design Resources: Inside the 2026 STRUDEL Contributor Workshop

April 1, 2026
Chenrong Zheng

The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) recently partnered with the STRUDEL team to host an exciting open source Contributor Workshop at the AI Futures Lab in downtown Berkeley. Bringing together over 30 engineers and...

Peter Dodds presents "Telegnomics, Ousiometrics, and Archetypometrics"

April 24, 2026
Vincent Gu

Measuring meaning sounds like trying to weigh fog. You can point at it, you can feel it, but the moment you grab it, it slips between your fingers. In this talk from the Cultural Analytics Series, Peter Dodds, a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Vermont, starts with the...

March OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange: Roadmap Workshop for JupyterHub and Binder Share Out

April 29, 2026
Saumya Lohia

In March, the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Monthly Knowledge Exchange invited the JupyterHub team to share learnings and discuss their recent roadmapping workshop held on February 25 and 26, 2026. These monthly meetups are...

Open Collaboration for the Future of AI in 2025

March 12, 2026
BIDS Staff
We are proud to share our 2025 Annual Report, a retrospective look at all that we accomplished together.

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The impact stories cover our open source activities in the Jupyter and Scientific Python ecosystems, and applied...

Call for Applications: 2026-27 CRELS and CSS Training Program Cohorts

March 11, 2026
BIDS Staff

We invite UC Berkeley PhD students from select disciplines to apply to two training programs: Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System Training Program (CRELS) and Computational Social Science Training Program (CSS).

Get details below and submit your application here (deadline: April 5, 2026, 11:59 pm PT)!

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The Wandering Officer: New Databases for Police Accountability

March 3, 2026
Saumya Lohia

On January 22, 2026, the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) co-sponsored an event to highlight the progress and impact of the California Law Enforcement Accountability Network (CLEAN) initiative, drawing a large crowd of East Bay community members, CLEAN project partners, and leaders of organizations advocating for more transparency and justice in policing. The guest speakers and panel included ...

Building Connections: Reflecting on the 2025 Scientific Python Developer Summit in Copenhagen

February 26, 2026
Yeonwoo Lee

On December 4, 2025, the Berkeley Institute of Data Science (BIDS) hosted our monthly Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Monthly Knowledge Exchange, where the team discussed the recent annual Scientific Python Developer Summit in Copenhagen.

Creating a Community

Before the developer summits started in 2023, communication was often confined to specific projects. However, as the open source community began...