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At UC Berkeley, not only are professors advancing the field of data science; undergraduate students also are making an impact in their own right. They are designing data science curriculum, participating in research development, creating course materials with data sets, embedding responsible and ethical principles into data science curriculum, and engaging in research partnerships with entrepreneurs and corporations. The annual Data Science Showcase earlier this...

Statistics major, citizen scientist, EMT, harpist, and all-around superstar Anna Boser is this year’s winner of the University Medal, UC Berkeley’s highest honor for a graduating senior. Find out why she had planned to go anywhere but Berkeley -- and how she discovered that this was exactly where she needed to be.

Despite the difficult circumstances, student researchers in the UC Berkeley Data Science Discovery Research Program continue to push forward and work to come up with innovative solutions to the problems and issues they face, both with the situation of the current working environment and with the projects they work on. Members of two such teams, Data for Social Good (Elizabeth Leong, Jessica Rodriguez, Natasha Hellebrandt)...

Learn more about our students' amazing work this semester helping to design courses, explore the human and social contexts and ethics of data, and advance data science research projects.

How much difference does closing schools make in limiting the spread of COVID-19? How about border restrictions? Stay-at-home orders? A group of researchers from Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and University of Illinois have built an app to help explore these questions. COVIDVIS enables users to look at the interplay of these and other interventions and the number of reported COVID-19 cases and deaths. The idea is...

A team led by two Berkeley faculty has received a grant to investigate and address eviction spikes and displacement risks related to COVID-19. They’re among the first grantees of the newly created C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute for projects focused on COVID-19 response and recovery. [[{"fid":"1805","view_mode":"width_200","fields":{"format":"width_200","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"chapple - blumenstock","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"chapple - blumenstock"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"5":{"format":"width_200","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"chapple - blumenstock","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"chapple - blumenstock"}},"attributes":{"alt":"chapple - blumenstock","title":"chapple - blumenstock","style":"float: right;","class":"media-element file-width-200","data-delta":"5"}}]] Karen Chapple, Professor and Chair of...

Coming May 5: Our virtual Showcase highlighting students' amazing work designing courses, investigating the human and social contexts and ethics of data, and leveraging data science for everything from making cyberspace inclusive to promoting environmental justice.

Extrapolating from Italian data, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory data scientists estimate that the fatality rate for COVID-19 is higher than some recent estimates have suggested.

Accenture Applied Intelligence and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) are building a strategic relationship to further the field of data science. This collaboration aims to explore major social and scientific challenges, such as ethical AI, biomedicine, and environmental sustainability in California.

In this video conversation, Jennifer Chayes, associate provost of the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society and dean of the School of Information, speaks with three UC Berkeley faculty about how data can be used to combat racial health disparities, rather than perpetuate them.