This month's "welcome back" meetup & social is hosted by the D-Lab! We'll meet in the D-Lab Collaboratory and learn about the D-Lab's services, trainings, and spaces, plus opportunities to chat with other folks on campus about what they're doing with GIS & mapping.
The GIS & Mapping Community of Practice is an informal meetup that offers participants an opportunity to get to know other people using mapping tools and techniques across campus, regardless of discipline. Whether you're just getting started exploring GIS & Mapping or a seasoned pro (or anywhere in between!), all are welcome to participate in the GIS & Mapping Community of Practice. Bring your questions and get excited to meet fellow mappers!
Date/Time: Wednesday, January 24, 11am-12:30pm Location: D-Lab, 356 Social Sciences Building Registration encouraged but not required.
The UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Working Group is a research community founded to facilitate interdisciplinary conversations in the digital humanities and cultural analytics. Our gatherings are participant driven and provide a place for sharing research ideas (including brainstorming new ideas and receiving feedback from others), learning about the intersection of computational methods and humanistic inquiry, and connecting with others working in this space at Berkeley. We encourage everyone to participate, regardless of your experience level. The DH Working Group is a welcoming and supportive community for all things digital humanities.
January Lightning Talks:
Responsible Editing with LLMs by ISchool Professor Marti Hearst; Investigating Neural Machine Translation Strategies for Low Resource Languages by ISchool graduate student Victoria Hollingshead; PhiloBiblon - Open Linked Data by Spanish & Portuguese consultant Ziff Donald; and Publishing Annotated 3D Models by Digital Humanities Summer Minor Instructor Kea Johnston.
Last Tuesday of most months!
January 30, 12:30pm-1:30pm
February 27, 12:30pm-1:30pm
March 26, 12:30pm-1:30pm
April 30, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Location: D-Lab, 356 Social Sciences Building, or join us via Zoom! Sponsors: This talk is made possible by the DH Working Group, the D-Lab, and the UCB Library.
Measuring Migration: Old Challenges, New Opportunities
by Suraj Nair
In the 21st century, patterns of human migration are being reshaped by various forces, including economic opportunity, conflict, and anthropogenic climate change. Understanding these (and other) drivers of migration is key to designing and implementing policies which better promote human development. In this blog post, I discuss some well-known challenges in measuring migration, following which I provide a brief overview of my ongoing research demonstrating the opportunities offered by non-traditional data sources to provide new insights on migration patterns across the world.
The UCSB Library's DREAM Lab seeks a Data Science Community Lead organizer to join our team of research and technology professionals. We seek a creative, dynamic, and technologically proficient individual to support and expand our Data and Software Carpentry education community on the UCSB campus.
The Data Science Community Lead will be responsible for organizing staff and volunteers who are presenting various extra-curricular data science workshops, including but not limited to: version control with Git, the Unix Shell, statistical scripting with R and Python, and Geospatial Analysis with R. You will lead the growth of a volunteer Instructor and Helper community by performing outreach, organizing events, and mentoring new volunteers. You will ensure active participation and attendance in workshops by leading communication efforts towards Learners and other campus constituents. You will train the community to publish workshop websites and new data science curriculum materials using GitHub Pages and Markdown.
Applications are open for several two-year full-time Postdoctoral Associates at the UC Berkeley School of Education, focusing on projects relating to technology innovation in systems of higher education. The postdoc associates will work closely with a multidisciplinary research team led by Professor Zach Pardos studying policy, credit loss, artificial intelligence, and factors influencing human-computer interaction in higher education contexts.
Any applicant holding a PhD with relevant experience is welcome to apply. Applicants with strengths in one of the following areas are highly encouraged: 1) UI/UX, 2) Machine learning, and 3) Higher Education administration scholarship. Annual compensation ranges from $60,000 to $70,000 with flexible start dates. These positions are funded by the Foundation for California Community Colleges, Ascendium, and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
“The fog comes…and then moves on:” On Transience and Translucence
For the eighth annual Berkeley-Stanford SFMOMA Symposium, we invite graduate students, artists, and independent researchers to take fog, San Francisco’s friendly ghost, as a common point of departure. We are hoping for wide interpretations of fog, whether as guiding visual motif, conceptual or methodological underpinning, meteorological intervention, or poetic engagement. We welcome submissions from across time periods, regions, and disciplines.
Interested participants are invited to send proposals no longer than 300 words via Google Form by Thursday, February 15th, 2024. Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, with time reserved for moderated discussion. This will be an all-day event at SFMOMA. The symposium is open to scholars and graduate students in any discipline, as well as artists, critics, curators, and independent researchers.
Date: Saturday, April 13th, 2024 Location: SFMOMA, San Francisco Deadline: Thursday, February 15th, 2024
Participants will be notified of submission status by March 1st, 2024. For any questions, please email sfmomasymposium@gmail.com.
CEGA seeks outstanding applicants for a Predoctoral Fellowship in Development Economics. The position entails work on two ongoing studies, as part of a larger CEGA research agenda, in collaboration with Edward Miguel, Oxfam Professor for Environmental and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley, and Michael Walker, Staff Scientist.
The primary goal of this work is to assess the longer-term impact of interventions for poverty alleviation, and to use data collected as part of these studies in creative ways to further scientific knowledge. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and organized self-starter eager to contribute to the success of a dynamic research organization, while expanding their networks and positioning themselves for future career growth.
Compensation is commensurate with experience. The salary range for this position is $59,200–$65,900. UC Berkeley offers a competitive benefits package.
Join a talented team of researchers and librarians providing public and confidential research to the Governor and Legislature to support the policymaking process. Work in a fast-paced environment providing timely research to support the policymaking process in real time. Researchers for the California Research Bureau work on a wide range of projects. Typical projects include data acquisition and analysis, fact checking, policy review, and information acquisition from other state agencies.
Researchers are under the supervision of the CRB Assistant Director. The mission of the CRB is to provide nonpartisan and confidential public policy research for the Governor’s Office and the State Legislature and to advance equitable access via statewide initiatives, including CRB Nexus and the California Homeless Youth Project.
This is a full-time position based in Sacramento County.
The San Benito County Public Health Services Department works in partnership with the community to ensure optimal health and well-being of all people by preventing disease, injury, and disability, promoting physical and mental health, and protecting from health hazards. San Benito County PH wants to work on a project using a rich COVID dataset. The initial project uses a COVID dataset and incorporates analysis for mapping/visualizing the data. The assigned Epidemiologist has identified a specific project using spatial GIS software to develop a cluster/spatial analysis of COVID cases for a learning experience suitable for a Master’s-level student.
We will be interviewing on a rolling basis! If you have any questions, please email phinformatics@berkeley.edu.
California’s Department of Health Care Access and Information, a leader in collecting data and disseminating information about California’s healthcare infrastructure, is hiring a Data Quality and Access Specialist! This position in the Health Care Payments Data (HPD) unit serves as the data quality and access specialist. As a team member in the HPD Unit, you may be responsible for the collection of data including medical and pharmacy claims and encounters, member enrollment data, provider information, and claims and encounters for specialty services such as dental and behavioral health.
Your efforts will support California healthcare cost transparency and inform policy decisions regarding the provision of health care and the reduction of health care costs and outcome disparities. You’ll also exercise your leadership skills by being responsible for contributing to the development and maintenance of the HPD system. Don’t wait! Bring your mad data science skills in Excel, Tableau, Python, and Visual Studio Code to a great, supportive department that makes space for you to learn and grow!
Position based out of Sacramento. Telework may be available for CA residents only.
The UW Data Science for Social Good summer program brings together students, stakeholders, data scientists, and domain researchers to work on focused, collaborative projects for societal benefit. Student Fellows work with real-world data on cross-disciplinary teams led by Project Leads from academia, nonprofits, and government, along with data scientists at the eScience Institute who offer technical expertise and guidance.
This 10-week long, hands-on program emphasizes learning opportunities for all participants as they collaboratively navigate intensive teamwork in pursuit of Data Science for Social Good. Student Fellow applications are open until 11:59 PST, February 12th.
A new graduate course on the human contexts and ethics of data, machine learning, and AI, cross-listed between STS and Data Science, is being offered this spring! This course teaches you to use approaches from across the humanities and interpretive social sciences and tools of Science, Technology, and Society (STS) to recognize, analyze, and shape the human contexts, social implications, and ethics of data and data technologies, including data analytics, algorithmic decision systems, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI).
This course is open to graduate students in both STEM and social science, humanities, and professional disciplines. Undergraduates will be considered at the discretion of the instructor.
The Latinx Social Science Research Workshop Series aims to create mentorship links across faculty, postdocs, and graduate students. During the workshop, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty will share research in progress and receive feedback from a community of engaged scholars in the Latino Social Sciences.
The inaugural session for the Spring 2024 Latinx Social Science Research Workshop Series will be held on Thursday, January 18, 2024, 12pm-1:30pm at the Latinx Research Center (2547 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA, 94720). We will have light refreshments and plenty of good conversation.
Date/Time: Thursday, January 18, 2024 @ 12pm-1:30pm Location:Latinx Research Center - 2547 Channing Way, Berkeley
Coleridge Initiative is hosting the next webinar in their Coleridge Data for Evidence-Building Series! Our goal with this quarterly webinar series is to facilitate conversations that drive effective policies for the greater good. We believe that by exploring key questions and discussing essential topics related to data and its impact on policymaking, we can create positive changes in local communities.
This session will focus on the Coleridge Initiative’s Applied Data Analytics training programs. Our trainings are centered around answering today’s policy questions that require increasingly complex data systems and analytical approaches to facilitate evidence-based decision-making. They are designed to both build a new data infrastructure and the analytic capacity of agency staff. Coleridge will also discuss the new short course series which takes a deeper dive into core data analytic concepts through the use of micro-level data.
Coming in 2024, California Research Bureau is launching CRB Nexus: Where Policy Meets Research! CRB Nexus is a community of practice for policy staff and researchers across California to initiate and build relationships, share policy needs and solutions, and find ways to move those ideas into action to benefit all Californians.
Together with co-hosts UC Berkeley Institute for Governmental Studies and UC Irvine School of Social Ecology, CRB Nexus will host 9 virtual events in 2024 featuring partner-recommended researchers by policy area.
The mission of the California Research Bureau is to provide nonpartisan and confidential public policy research for the Governor’s Office and the State Legislature and to advance equitable access via statewide initiatives.
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