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Applications due March 1st: 2016 eScience Data Science for Social Good summer program

Fri, 26 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

The University of Washington eScience Institute, in collaboration with Urban@UW and Microsoft, is excited to announce the 2016 Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) summer program. The program brings together data and domain scientists to work on focused, collaborative projects that are designed to impact public policy for social benefit.

Modeled after similar programs at the University of Chicago and Georgia Tech, with elements from our own Data Science Incubator, sixteen DSSG Student Fellows will be selected to work with academic researchers, data scientists, and public stakeholder groups on data-intensive research projects. Graduate students and advanced undergraduates are eligible for these paid positions.

Data Science for Social Good: an Experiment in Data Science Training

Tue, 01 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Data science faces many challenges in the traditional academic setting. At the same time, many research fields are becoming increasingly dependent on data science tools and techniques. A key element in tackling these challenges is the education of a new generation of researchers that are fluent in both their research domain and in data science methodologies. In this post, we discuss an immersive approach to training in data science, the University of Washington eScience Institute's inaugural Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program.

Stanford Bootcamp Recap

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

On May 6th-7th, we hosted a bootcamp at Stanford University. Participants were students, post-docs and staff affiliated with the Center for Neurobiological and Cognitive Imaging and the Neuroscience Graduate Program and both units provided support for the workshop. Bob Dougherty, the research director at the CNI, helped raise a substantial portion of the funds to support the bootcamp (coffee!) and Prof. Miriam Goodman, from the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, helped to get the neuroscience program on board and to secure additional funding from that program. Prof. Goodman was a participant in a SWC bootcamp at Berkeley last year and was eager to get SWC to Stanford. Instructors were Paul Ivanov, Bernhard Konrad and myself.