NEWS

Project Jupyter Wins Technical Advancement to Enable Open Science Award

On March 21, 2024, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced that Project Jupyter, a community of open-source developers, scientists, educators, and data scientists had received the award. The project, which was initiated by Fernando Pérez, the current BIDS Faculty Director, in 2001 with IPython has evolved into a suite of powerful tools that facilitate scientific research and data analytics across a wide range of disciplines.
 

UC Berkeley Joins Effort to Advance Open Source Across UC System

UC Berkeley is joining an ambitious effort to advance open source research, education and public service across the University of California system lead by BIDS researchers Stéfan van der Walt and Jarrod Millman. This effort will be enabled by a $1.85 million Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to UC Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego. Read more about the grant here.
 

Shades of Gender in Employee Discourse

At a recent BIDS seminar, Professor Heather Haveman presented fascinating work with Will Rathjeon on gender in employee discourse using employee review data from the tech sector posted to Glassdoor.com. This is useful, because discourse is a reflection of the organization’s culture. Read more about the talk here.

The Complex Systems View of AI Ethics

The Center for Cultural Analytics hosted Professor Eliassa-Rad for the Spring lecture event. The lecture went into the the study of AI ethics from the perspective of complex systems (cultural, social, economic, and political systems). Some examples included health care and college admissions. Read more about the lecture here.

Powering The Just Transition

At the University of Trieste, BIDS Faculty Affiliate Professor Daniel Kammen delivered the Lecto Magistralis (university-wide lecture on data science, energy, climate and justice): Powering The Just Transition. The lecture focused on how to decarbonize the economy in a fair and equitable way across the globe and resulted in a plan for a MOU between UC Berkeley and both University of Trieste and the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).

EVs Are Lowering Carbon Footprint Around Bay Area

BIDS Faculty Affiliate Ronald Cohen and his team have set up a large network of carbon dioxide sensors around the Bay Area. Over the past few years the sensors have shown a 1.8% drop in annual carbon dioxide emissions that coincides with the high rate of electric vehicle adoption in the Bay Area. Read more here.

Events

Grants and Awards

Faculty Affiliate Trond Petersen

Publications

Yuan, K., Li, F., McNicol, G. et al. (2024)

Pinkard, H., Liu, C., Nyatigo, F., Fletcher, D.A., Waller, L (preprint)

Jobs

Academic Data Science Alliance Job Board

NSF funded Computational Research for Equity in Legal Systems

NIH funded Computational Social Science Training Program

Data-driven Discovery of Wetland CH4 Emissions Internships