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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...

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...

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...

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.

note: For the best viewing experience of our 2-page spread, please open in a PDF viewer like Adobe Acrobat.

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...

BIDS at AGU 2025: Open Source Geospatial Workflows in the Cloud

February 24, 2026
Matt Fisher, Chenrong Zheng
A Global Gathering for Open Science

What happens when you put a room full of open-source geospatial experts together, and then give them time to discuss, share, and present? At AGU25 in New Orleans, 21000+ researchers and practitioners from 100+ countries came together under the theme “Where Science Connects Us” to share work that connects data to decisions across Earth science and environmental challenges. We explored innovative approaches to make geospatial research more reproducible, more scalable, and more open.

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Melanie Walsh presents “AI Fiction in the Wild”

February 10, 2026
Ankita Biyani

The Cultural Analytics Series, jointly organized by the UC Berkeley School of Information and Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), highlights research that uses data-driven methods to study cultural phenomena.

In the fall of 2025, the series featured the presentation "AI...

A celebration of Stacey Dorton: Enduring Impact at UC Berkeley

January 29, 2026
BIDS Staff

We at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science celebrate Stacey Dorton upon her retirement from BIDS and UC Berkeley. After graduating from UC Berkeley in women’s studies, she returned to campus in 2015 as our first Administrative Manager while the Institute was just getting started. It is not an exaggeration to say that BIDS would not have developed into a leading data science institute without her! Upon learning of Dorton’s retirement, her colleagues and friends - both current and former UC Berkeley...