D-Lab Frontdesk
Stop by our virtual frontdesk, open Monday-Friday from 9am-5pm! Our undergraduate technicians (UTech) can answer general questions about workshops or other D-Lab services and can link you up with a consultant during drop-in hours.
Our physical space will remain closed to the public as we re-imagine
how to best make use of our physical space on the 3rd floor of the social sciences building.
- Upcoming winter break closure -
D-Lab virtual space will be closed to the public starting Monday, December 13, 2021 and re-opening Tuesday, January 11, 2022. During our closure we will not have a virtual front desk, offer drop-in consulting, or host workshops via zoom.
If you have an open consulting ticket with us, we will follow up with you this week and next. We are accepting new consulting requests through Friday, December 10, 2021.
We will kick off our virtual opening with our workshop intensives from Tuesday, January 11, 2021 - Friday, January 14, 2021. Registration for these workshops will open Tuesday, December 21, 2021.
We hope that you have a nice winter break and enjoy some much deserved time off! Please reach out to University Health Services if you need health information, COVID testing or vaccination, or mental health services.
- D-Lab is Hiring! -
D-Lab is hiring undergrads!
D-Lab is hiring UC Berkeley undergraduate students for our Undergraduate Technician (UTech) positions for the spring 2022 semester!
We are holding information sessions this week on Wednesday, Dec 8 from 4pm-5pm and Thursday, Dec 9 from 4pm-5pm for students to learn more about the UTech role and the D-Lab in general. If you are interested in applying to the position, we highly encourage you to attend the info session. Please sign up here to attend!If you are unable to attend but want to watch the recording, please also sign up to let us know so we can email the recording to you.
UTechs are the face of D-Lab’s virtual front desk, offering assistance to anyone who drops-ins by aligning them with the proper service or resource. This position is the front line support for D-Lab, and is often people’s first (and lasting) impression of D-Lab. Among other things, UTechs manage the “D-Lab Frontdesk” email inbox, contribute our weekly newsletter, contribute to workshop production and video curation, and assist with consultation requests and assigning folks to the proper resource or consultation service.
Applications will be open starting Friday, December 10 until Tuesday, January 11, 2022. For more detailed information about the position, you can visit our website. If you have any questions, please reach out to dlab-frontdesk@berkeley.edu.
- Blog Post -
Resisting our Data Doppelgangers: A Proposal for Unpacking the Dangers of Data-Driven Fertility Advertising With Data Science Tools by Seyi Olojo
When Janet Vertasi, a sociology professor of technology at Princeton, learned of her pregnancy, she decided to conduct a personal experiment. She hid her pregnancy from the internet for nine months. This meant only sharing her pregnancy with close friends and family, using her own personal server while making purchases on Amazon and even opting to use cash For many of her transactions... read more.
Working with spatial networks using NetworkX by Yiyi He
I have always been interested in working with spatial networks. My first introduction to spatial network modeling was in Prof. John Radke’s Geographic Information Systems class when I learned about building and analyzing spatial networks using the Network Analyst extension in ArcMap. This extension provides powerful tools to solve common network problems, such as finding the best route across a city, finding the closest emergency vehicle or facility... read more.
- Human Context and Ethics of Data Science (HCE) Team newsletter -
This newsletter will cover the work and updates, connect readers with opportunities in the HCE space, and spotlight awesome work being done in the field.
Through this newsletter, we are hoping to build a community of people who are passionate about ethics, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion, in Data Science.
If you're interested, please fill out this HCE Newsletter interest form to sign-up and stay up to date.
- Upcoming D-Lab Workshops -
Python Introduction to Machine Learning: Parts 1-2
Dec 7, 9 | 1pm-4pm | Register for Zoom link
This workshop introduces students to scikit-learn, the popular machine learning library in Python, as well as the auto-ML library built on top of scikit-learn, TPOT. The focus will be on scikit-learn syntax and available tools to apply machine learning algorithms to datasets. No theory instruction will be provided.
The Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society’s Data Science Discovery Program is accepting project partner applications for Spring 2022. If you are interested in getting talented Berkeley data science students to work on your data science research project, please apply today! The Data Science Discovery Program is open to all UC Berkeley faculty, graduate students, and postdocs, along with non-profits, government agencies, and UC Berkeley-affiliated startups.
Since 2015, the Data Science Discovery Program has connected thousands of undergraduate data scientists with hands-on, team-based opportunities in hundreds of cutting-edge data-centered research projects with various organizations at UC Berkeley and beyond.
In addition to helping recruit student researchers, Discovery Program can provide free cloud computing credits and mentorship from graduate students with data science expertise. The Discovery Program also offers project management training for students and additional consultations for projects that are attempting to get off the ground.
We're accepting applications through January 1st and the recruitment timeline along with other information can be found on our website. The application can be accessed here.
- Other Campus Events & Workshops -
UC Berkeley Cloud Computing Meetup: Berkeley Startups and the Cloud
Dec 9 | 1pm-2pm | Join via Zoom
This month's meetup focuses on Cloud Meetup partner Berkeley SkyDeck and explores why startups are important to Berkeley, how startups should think about selecting their cloud based tech stacks, and features a lightning talk from Mithril, a current cohort company from Berkeley SkyDeck, on how they enable secure AI on Azure.
The Division of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for a pool of outstanding lecturers to teach Digital Humanities courses should an opening arise during the academic year, as well as, lecturers to teach in the Summer Minor in the Digital Humanities.
Salary range: Starting at $56,945 Percent time: Positions range from 33% to 100% each semester. Summer Sessions Lecturer appointments are part time and weighed at 50%. Anticipated start: Positions usually start at the beginning of the semester (in mid-January for Spring Semester; in mid-August for Fall Semester). Summer appointments begin in late May and run into early August.
UC San Diego’s Center on Gender Equity and Health
UC San Diego’s Center on Gender Equity and Health is looking to contract with a student or professional with strong skills in R and, to a lesser degree, Python coding languages to support two complex data collection systems (Qualtrics and Comcare) that are currently engaging in ongoing data collection. The independent contractor position would be for 20 hours per month for 3 months with possibility of renewal. Please contact Sabrina Boyce (scboyce@health.ucsd.edu) if you are interested.
GSR positions for the Risk Resilience Lab
Learn more and apply here
2022 Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship
Apply here and read more
Hiring Pre-doctoral Fellows at the
Comprehensive Income Dataset Project
Apply here and read more
Post-Doctoral Researcher Position in Mental Health Services Research and Data Science | Population Health Sciences
The Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine is inviting applications for a post-doctoral researcher position in mental health services research and data science. You can read more and apply here.
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