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!
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; 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
April 2, 12:30pm-1:30pm (rescheduled due to spring break)
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“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.
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.
If you are a Berkeley student interested in learning about Public Health Informatics and Technology, experiencing a hands-on learning curriculum, and being considered for an internship with a public health department, please consider learning more about the California Consortium for Public Health Informatics and Technology (CCPHIT). We offer internship opportunities in the public health industry and you may apply for this opportunity once you complete a few required courses.
Through this new course, you will gain theoretical knowledge as well as understand the practical applications of these technologies, overcoming specific community barriers, and generating impactful health outcomes. The learning experience takes a case study approach, with each case focusing on a significant technological advancement in public health. The key areas of application include mental health, bio-surveillance, environmental impact, and devices for lifestyle changes. This course will equip you with the ability to drive public health forward through technological application and innovation.
UC Libraries and their partners are collaborating on another UC-wide “Love Data Week” from February 12-16, 2024. This will be a jam-packed week of talks, presentations, and workshops all about data! All members of the UC community are invited to attend these events to gain hands-on experience, learn about resources, and engage in discussions about data. All events are free to attend and open to any member of the UC community.
With over 20 presentations and workshops, whether you’re working on qualitative or quantitative data, there’s plenty to choose from. Topics include:
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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