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 David Culler Named As Interim Dean of New Division of Data Sciences
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences David Culler has been named interim dean for the newly created Division of Data Sciences. Full article.
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“Data for Social Good”: A New Strategy to Strengthen Citizenship
 Lisa García Bedolla, Chancellor’s Professor in the Graduate School of Education, and visiting scholar Cristhian Parra are working to strengthen political engagement by developing a relational database that allows organizations to integrate information on people’s interests, group memberships, and neighborhood demographics. Full article.
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 The Course of the Future—And the Technology Behind It
A look at the technology that powers Berkeley’s data science curriculum. Full article.
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 Notebook Environments Support Ecosystem Modeling and Data Sharing
Professor Carl Boettiger, a theoretical ecologist in the field of ecoinformatics, the science of information in ecology, discusses how Jupyter Notebooks are vital to his research. Full article.
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A group of Berkeley undergraduates produced a video introducing Berkeley’s data science program.
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Tales from the Docathon: How to Get Communities to Write Documentation
 In March, BIDS held the first Docathon, a one-week coding sprint aimed to motivate open source developers to spend less time building new features and squashing bugs and more time creating examples, tutorials, API descriptions, and guides to help their users learn more about their projects. BIDS fellows talk about the event and share lessons learned. Full article.
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 Digitizing 17th Century Dutch Documents
Julie van den Hout has made good use of the Berkeley Research Computing (BRC) program’s free virtualized instance of ABBYY FineReader to create a searchable corpus of 17th century Dutch-language documents. Full article.
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A “VAST” Step Forward in Cyber Security
 Computer Science Professor Vern Paxson and postdoctoral researcher Matthias Vallentin are developing VAST, a system that helps analysts pinpoint how much of an organization’s computer network has been compromised and where. Full article.
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