Analyzing Medical Literature: Tracking Topics Over Time
Panel with: Claudia von Vacano, Pratik Sachdeva, Moustafa Abdalla, & Melissa Grafe
Archives of published medical literature illuminate the evolution of medical care and research, shedding light on professional norms, ethics, and values. Experts from digital social science, technological sciences, library sciences, and historical perspectives present case studies from their institutions, followed by a guided dialogue on analyzing medical literature to reveal insights about healthcare trends, systemic inequalities, and more. The Digital Health Humanities Symposium Lightning Talks include our Executive Director, Dr. Claudia von Vacano and Senior Data Scientist, Dr. Pratik Sachdeva from UC Berkeley's D-Lab, Dr. Moustafa Abdalla from Massachusetts General Hospital, and Melissa Grafe from Yale University's Medical Historical Library.
Come discover the intricacies of health statistics, authoritative sources, and tools for crafting custom tables on birth, death, disease, and behavior statistics. While spotlighting U.S. data, we'll also explore non-U.S. sources. Join us to navigate this data-driven landscape!
- D-Lab Workshops -
Check next week's newsletter for more Sep and Oct workshops that will be open for registration, covering topics such as Python, R, and Bash+Git!
Center for Effective Global Action Communications Intern
Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) at UC Berkeley seeks a talented Communications Intern (10-15 hours/week) to promote the work of CEGA and our faculty network and better translate research into action.
This is an exciting opportunity to work with staff, students, and faculty across the center to develop multimedia content, disseminate research through social media, monitor press coverage, support website operations, and lead special projects. They will report to the CEGA Senior Associate for Communications and Events.
CEGA compensates undergraduate interns (i.e., undergraduate students, bachelor degree holders, or equivalent) at $21/hour and graduate student interns (graduate students, graduate degree holders, or equivalent) at $26/hour. This is fully remote with the option to work in person in our office in Berkeley, CA.
UC Berkeley is seeking a collaborative and service-oriented librarian to enable world-class research and teaching through the development of the Library’s research collections and engagement with faculty and students associated with scholarship and practices in literature in English, comparative literature, and digital humanities. Reporting to the Head of the Arts & Humanities Division, the Literatures & Digital Humanities Librarian promotes research, teaching, and scholarship by liaising with academic departments and programs, managing rich research collections, and supporting the digital humanities.
The new Master of Computational Social Science (MaCSS) is a one-year, on-campus program that will provide students with practical skills for analyzing, interpreting, & visualizing data in the context of social-science frameworks. The program is intended for people with BAs in the social sciences who are in the early career stage. MaCSS graduates will be able to work as analysts & data specialists in business, non-profit, & government settings.
MaCSS is seeking instructors to develop and deliver 2 courses.
1) Data, Society, and Ethics (Fall 2024, 3 units): Suggested topics include potential harms in data collection, aggregation, & analysis (e.g., violations of privacy, bias); transparency, reproducibility & explainability in data analysis; how (not) to lie with statistics. Assignments involve documenting code for a computational assignment, investigating & writing a report on bias in an ML algorithm.
2)Data Visualization (Spring 2025, 2 units): Suggested topics include tables & charts (bar, line, rose, etc.); multivariate displays; networks & trees; geospatial maps; data aggregation; using color effectively. Assignments involve the practicalities & aesthetics of showing patterns in data.
Both courses will be held in person and involve a mixture of short lecturers, active learning using datasets analyzed with some combination of R & Python/Jupyter notebooks. Both will have GSIs to hold tutorials and help grade.
Offering competitive compensation for course development and course delivery; looking for people with PhDs and/or people who do computational research in social science.
If you are interested, contact Professor Heather Haveman, Faculty Director of MaCSS: haveman@berkeley.edu.
Berkeley IT Client Services
Become a Student Technician for ITCS!
Get paid to learn IT support skills and concepts and provide IT services to UC Berkeley staff and faculty! You’ll work in UC Berkeley’s IT Client Services (ITCS) department, which provides direct technical support to UC Berkeley staff and faculty. The technician will engage in training, providing technical support, and documentation and will be paid to receive a ~100-hour program of technical training. The student team in ITCS has many leadership opportunities and frequently has roles open for project or training leadership.
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