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JupyterCon, and the Next 100 Programming Systems

December 16, 2025

JupyterCon 2025 was an amazing tour of all the exciting things happening across the Jupyter Ecosystem. Education,...

Reflections from JupyterCon San Diego 2025: Lessons for Berkeley DataHub

December 16, 2025

JupyterCon returned to San Diego this November, and I’m genuinely grateful I had the chance to be there. The energy of the community—educators, researchers, maintainers, enterprise teams, and so many others—was contagious. Every conversation felt like a reminder of why this ecosystem matters and how lucky we are to be part of it.

For those of us working on Berkeley DataHub, the conference was more than a series of talks. It was an...

Nicole Starosielski presents "Facilitating Sustainability: Cable Landing Stations and the Alternative History of Network Architectures"

August 29, 2025

On March 31, Nicole Starosielski, Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley, presented work at BIDS on undersea cables and digital infrastructure “Facilitating Sustainability: Cable Landing Stations and the Alternative History of Network Architectures”.

Starosielski has been doing research on the physical installations that support Internet traffic, including data centers,...

Cultural Analytics inaugural lecture “Universality and Diversity in Story and Song” with Manvir Singh

November 19, 2025

The new Cultural Analytics speaker series — a collaboration between the UC Berkeley School of Information and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) — launched on October 2 with its inaugural speaker, Manvir Singh, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Davis. The series builds on inaugural talks in the past two years by...

Themes of Day 1, JupyterCon 2025: Collaboration and Modularity

November 5, 2025

Rising to the challenge by leveraging collaboration and modularity were strong themes of Day 1 at JupyterCon 2025. Keynote speaker David Donoho spoke of data science as a continuous challenge with researchers both pushing the envelope and collaborating; papers are built on common datasets and ultimately share methods that anyone with the requisite expertise can use (Donoho, 2017). This reflected my formative experiences with data science; as an undergraduate completing an honors thesis, I modified a published...

Shaping the Future of Open Source: 2i2c and BIDS

October 23, 2025

On October 16, a range of professionals, students, and open source advocates gathered for a panel discussion led by Kirstie Whitaker, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) Executive Director, at the AI Futures Lab. She discussed the new membership plan with 2i2c (International Interactive Computing Collaboration), walking through...

Getting ready for JupyterCon 2025: How UC Berkeley is Using Jupyter to Support Healthcare providers, Geospatial Data, and Data Science Education

October 15, 2025

This month there are many of us across UC Berkeley excited to be presenting at JupyterCon 2025. Hosted out of beautiful San Diego we’ll be sharing work deepening research impact in health and geoscience, delivering the highest quality data science education with JupyterHub and Jupyter Book, and improving the accessibility of Jupyter infrastructure.

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Min Ragan-Kelley and his journey back to BIDS

October 13, 2025

The Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) welcomes Min Ragan-Kelley, Senior Open Infrastructure Architect, back to the UC Berkeley campus after spending a decade working in Norway. He recently sat down with Kirstie Whitaker, BIDS Executive Director, to discuss his history and his future at BIDS -- he plays a key role in realizing the vision for BIDS as a space for open scholarship, open...

Building Together: Two Days of GeoJupyter Community Innovation

September 4, 2025

Over the course of two lively days, 25 developers, researchers, and enthusiasts from a range of backgrounds came together in Berkeley for the GeoJupyter Hackathon. The event was marked by the energy and momentum generated by people working side by side. Participants convened at the AI Futures Lab on day one, which provided a space made for collaboration, with...