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- Upcoming D-Lab Summer Closure -
With the end of the semester rapidly approaching, we want to let you know about the plan for D-Lab summer closures.
Starting Friday, May 6 @ 5:00pm, D-Lab will be closed to the public (virtual space, front desk, workshops, new consulting requests, and consulting drop-ins). If you have an open consulting request, we will finish up your existing request from May 6 to May 13 via email or schedule individual Zoom sessions.
We plan to re-open our doors and begin providing services when fall semester begins in August 2022. Our re-opening date is still to be determined, but we will let you all know our plan as we get closer to
early August.
Our newsletter updates over the summer will change from our regular weekly updates instead to occasional updates as we have information to share.
Good luck with finals and we hope everyone has a great rest of the semester! If you have questions, please email: dlab-frontdesk@berkeley.edu
- Opportunities at D-Lab! -
Apply to be a D-Lab Data Science Fellow
The D-Lab is seeking applications for the 2022-2023 cohort of Data Science Fellows. Our Data Science Fellows serve as the bedrock of our workshop and research program. The Fellowship is designed to give outstanding UC Berkeley graduate students the opportunity to advance their data science training within the D-Lab’s diverse and intellectually vibrant community. Data Science Fellows receive a stipend. Applications are due May 6th - Apply here!
D-Lab hosted a virtual information session on the Fellowship.
If you missed the info session and want to watch the recording let us know here. View the March 2nd recording
D-Lab is hiring a Postdoc UC Berkeley Undergraduate Data Science at Scale program
The program aims to implement, scale, and propagate a novel prototype for undergraduate data science education. The project is led by a multidisciplinary group of faculty and staff who collectively bring deep expertise in undergraduate STEM education, data science pedagogy, and the science of diversity and inclusion in higher education.
Through a continuous cycle of design, implementation, evaluation, and refinement, the project advances the field of undergraduate data science education by producing a set of open source curricular materials, developing technical infrastructure, and disseminating the new knowledge necessary to deploy such resources successfully in multiple and diverse institutional settings. Ultimately, we will engage a wide community in the process of institutional transformation.
You have gathered the needed data to support your research, check. You have made some hypotheses about what you hope to conclude, check. You have spent time cleaning the data and organizing it in a manner that permits further exploration, check... read more.
- Featured D-Lab Event -
Public Talk: Teaching Bias through Word Embeddings
May 16 | 9am-10am | Register here
Speaker: Tom van Nuenen
This talk discusses findings from the Discovering and Attesting Digital Discrimination project at the Department of Informatics, King’s College London.
In this project, which focuses on biases in Machine Learning, we proposed a data-driven approach to discover language biases encoded in the vocabulary of discourse communities on social media. In our approach, we use word embeddings to connect protected attributes to evaluative words found in different language datasets, discovering gender, religion, and ethnic biases... read more.
- Other Events, Workshops, and Opportunities -
ICPSR Workshops at Berkeley
Machine Learning: Applications and Opportunities in Social Science Research | Aug 8-12
Machine Learning: Uncovering Hidden Structure in Data | Aug 15-19 More information and apply here
2022 American Casual Inference Conference (ACIC)
May 23-25, 2022 | UC Berkeley | Read more
Hiring Senior Data Scientist New Light Technologies is hiring!
New Light Technologies supports the US Census Bureau's Research & Methodology Directorate (including Disclosure Avoidance, Center for Economic Studies, LEHD, etc.). We are looking to hire a key Senior Scientist with strong math/statistics and algorithmic and computing skills with PySpark to support development and enhancement of the Disclosure Avoidance System (DAS). More information and apply here
Hiring Data Analysts for Social Epidemiology Research Project Big Data for Health Equity (BD4HE) Research Collaborative is hiring!
The Big Data for Health Equity (BD4HE) Research Collaborative is looking for an experienced full-time analyst/postdoc for an exciting new social epidemiology research project.
The project is entitled “Risk and strength: determining the impact of area-level racial bias and protective factors on birth outcomes” and focuses on examining the effects of racism on health outcomes. Under the direction of Dr. Thu Nguyen, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the analyst will help lead publications investigating the role of area-level racial sentiment, hate speech, and racial prejudice on adverse birth outcomes and other health outcomes. More information and apply here
Hiring Data Science Intern
ReThink Media (non-profit) is hiring!
ReThink Media seeks a graduate student with Python and/or R programming skills and an interest in computational text analysis to assist our Research & Analysis Team. This internship will provide an opportunity to develop your data science and data wrangling skills while helping inform communications strategies for advocacy groups working on a range of social justice issues. More information and apply here
Web Application Developer
The UC Berkeley Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF) is hiring!
The GIF is currently looking for an enthusiastic Web Application Developer to join our team in designing a next-generation Cal-Adapt.org. Our work focuses on building data driven, user friendly, interactive tools and visualizations that allow users to explore, analyze, and share complex environmental information to support climate adaptation and decision making. The Web Application Programmer will work closely with our small creative team of experienced programmers to help design and build new tools and strengthen the data processing pipeline for Cal-Adapt and other grant-funded GIF projects including California’s Adaptation Clearinghouse.
Web Accessibility Assistants
Berkeley IT / Campus IT Experience / Productivity and Collaboration Services is hiring!
The Productivity and Collaboration Services Department in Berkeley IT is hiring two students to run mail merges and will be responsible to follow through appropriately with questions that return to us in relation to those communications. More information and apply here
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