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Dr. Tim Thomas presents his research "Developing a National Eviction, Displacement, and Housing Precarity Risk Model in a Post-Pandemic World"

September 21, 2023
Lilli Wessling Hart

In the first BIDS seminar of the 2023 Fall semester, Dr. Tim Thomas -- Director of Berkeley’s Eviction Research Network, Research Director for the Urban Displacement Project, and BIDS Data Scientist -- presented his team's research on using data and social science tools to mine court record text, link evictions to consumer and administrative data, and develop machine learning models to identify where the highest levels of housing precarity are located....

George Obaido welcomes Dr. Blessing Ogbuokiri as the first guest on his "Data Science Toolbox" series

September 29, 2023
Lilli Wessling Hart

Discussion about innovative research within the realm of data science is the focus of BIDS-CHAI Data Science Research Scholar George Obaido's new "Data Science Toolbox" series. The series began on September 28, 2023, with guest Dr. Blessing Ogbuokiri discussing his work.

Vaccine Hesitancy Hotspots in Africa: An Insight from Geotagged Tweets

"Vaccine...

September 2023 Newsletter

September 12, 2023
Cody Markelz

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BIDS - Annual Report - 2021

July 13, 2022

Download the 2021 Berkeley Institute of Data Science (BIDS) Annual report here.

April 2023 Newsletter

April 11, 2023
Cody Markelz

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March 2023 Newsletter

March 14, 2023
Cody Markelz

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June 2023 Newsletter

June 6, 2023
Cody Markelz

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May 2023 Newsletter

May 9, 2023
Cody Markelz

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Berkeley Institute for Data Science appoints Fernando Pérez as the next Faculty Director

August 16, 2023
Cody Markelz and Alex Coughlin

BERKELEY, Calif., August 16, 2023 - Associate Professor Fernando Pérez from the Statistics Department at UC Berkeley will be the next Faculty Director for the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). The appointment will start in July, 2024. As a founding team member of BIDS, Pérez brings a deep understanding of the data science community at Berkeley and a commitment to high profile open-source projects. Open-source remains one of the fundamental pillars of BIDS.

Pérez will be taking over for...

UC Berkeley launches AI training program to address criminal justice system inequalities with support from $3M NSF grant

August 24, 2023
Kenny Ma

UC Berkeley researchers launched a pioneering interdisciplinary training program this week that will blend criminal justice and computer science in ways that experts say will help reduce long-standing, systemic inequities in the criminal legal system.

The program, called Computational Research for Equity in the Legal System (CRELS), is being made possible with a $3-million National Science Foundation grant. Launched by a multidisciplinary research team that includes Berkeley’s...

https://ls.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berkeley-launches-ai-training-program-address-cr…