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BIDS is hiring an Executive Director, join us!

April 15, 2024
Fernando Pérez

This is an exciting time for the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS); as we embark in a new era within Berkeley's recently founded College of Computing, Data Science and Society, we are looking for a talented Executive Director to join our team and lead new initiatives and programs.

After a decade that shaped Berkeley's Data Science programs, we now have an opportunity to ask where we should go next. I started as Faculty director this year, joined by...

Arash Ardakani gives special presentation on DiffSampler

April 12, 2024
Lilli Wessling Hart

During a recent Zoom session, BIDS Research Scholar Arash Ardakani gave a special presentation DiffSampler: A Differential and Inherently Parallel Sampling Method for Verification to BIDS Faculty Director Fernando Pérez and others.

Arash Ardakani Zoom screenshot

The presentation began...

This Month at BIDS - March 2024

March 18, 2024
Lilli Wessling Hart

Read our March newsletter now! To stay up to date on upcoming news and events at BIDS, check out our events calendar, sign up for our newsletter, and follow us (X • Bluesky •...

Professor Heather Haveman presents her work "Shades of Gender in Employee Discourse"

March 13, 2024
Lilli Wessling Hart

Professor Heather Haveman presented fascinating work with Will Rathje on gender in employee discourse in a recent BIDS seminar, using employee review data from the tech sector posted to Glassdoor.com. This is useful, because discourse is a reflection of the organization’s culture.

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Professor Sandrine Dudoit presents her work “Single-Cell Transcriptomics: Questions and Learning from Data”

February 26, 2024
Lilli Wessling Hart

During a recent BIDS seminar, Professor Sandrine Dudoit (BIDS Faculty Council Member and CDSS Associate Dean for Faculty and Research) provided a survey of statistical questions related to the analysis of single-cell RNA-Seq data to investigate the differentiation of stem cells in the brain, including, exploratory data analysis, dimensionality reduction, normalization, expression quantitation,...

This Month at BIDS - February 2024

February 15, 2024
Lilli Wessling Hart

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This Month at BIDS - November 2023

November 15, 2023
Lilli Wessling Hart

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Kyla Bourne presents her work toward developing a national police accountability database

February 1, 2024
Lilli Wessling Hart

During a recent BIDS seminar, Dr. Kyla Bourne (BIDS-Accenture Data Science Research Scholar) discussed the absence of a centralized public database designed to track how prosecutors respond to alleged racially-biased misconduct by law enforcement colleagues on a large scale. She explained how her work will make a significant contribution by establishing the first national database of its kind.

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BIDS Community Celebrates Saul Perlmutter's Tenure as the Founding Faculty Director

December 12, 2023
Lilli Wessling Hart

On December 4, 2023, the BIDS community gathered at the Alumni House to celebrate the winter holidays and Saul Perlmutter's tenure as BIDS Founding Faculty Director. Professor Perlmutter spearheaded the effort to found the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) in 2013 and developed a vision for its future, creating a vital, new community where data science at UC Berkeley could flourish.

The appreciation and respect for him and his work were palpable, with tributes by BIDS Faculty Council...

Tristan Chambers presents his work on solving information extraction challenges using Large Language Models

December 11, 2023
Lilli Wessling Hart

During a recent BIDS seminar featuring Tristan Chambers -- CLEAN Data Architect -- the topic "Unpacking police violence and misconduct records: Solving information extraction challenges using Large Language Models (LLMs)" was addressed. Tristan gave attendees an introduction to LLMs, described some of the problems they can solve, and showed examples of how he uses them for his work on large documents.

He stressed that...