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An innovative collider space on the first floor of Moffitt Library is now available for students interested in data science. The beta version of the future Center for Connected Learning provides data science peer advising and consulting through a collaboration between UC Berkeley Library and the Division of Data Sciences, and maker workspaces provided by b.Makerspace, which offers 3-D printing and a VR headset area...

Now that the Fall term has begun to settle down, I would like to share a snapshot of the activities in and around the Division of Data Sciences reflecting the connectedness of research, learning, and community at Berkeley. In the next few weeks, students will be able to declare the Data Science major approved last Spring for the College of Letters and Science. An experienced...

With 780 students filing pre-declarations as soon as they became available earlier this fall, UC Berkeley’s new Data Science major is on the way to quickly becoming one of the most popular on campus. Advisors are busy helping seniors and juniors declare, and soon will move on to others who are eager to add the Data Science major. Designed through collaboration across diverse disciplines, the...

Check out GeekWire's feature on some of the latest developments from the fascinating Berkeley SETI Research Center. In recent years, participants in the Division's Data Science Discovery Program have helped advance this work analyzing radio bursts from remote galaxies to better understand their origins. Could the patterns signals from intelligent extraterrestrial civilizations? The exploration continues.

“Data to knowledge to action.” This pipeline to social impact in data science was among the interesting perspectives that Tom Kalil shared in a “Waterside Chat” at a recent California Water Data Hackathon. Sponsored by the Division of Data Sciences and Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS), the hackathon was part of the California Safe Drinking Water Data Challenge, an effort to leverage data to...

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The Global Metropolitan Studies Program and the Division of Data Science are pleased to sponsor a workshop on a platform for collecting and analyzing human travel data. The workshop will introduce participants to e-mission , an open-source platform for collecting human travel data. The course is intended for students and researchers across a variety of fields. Attend this workshop to learn open source techniques, details...

[[{"fid":"865","view_mode":"default","fields":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":false,"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"6":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":false,"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false}},"attributes":{"class":"media-element file-default","data-delta":"6"}}]] The Division of Data Sciences, in partnership with the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and West Big Data Innovation Hub, hosted the 2018 California Water Data Hackathon from September 14-15 to advance the movement towards safe drinking water. Attendees had the opportunity to leverage core data science, programming, and analytic skills and tools to build a project in support of the California Safe...

Highlighted student research projects.

Pioneering efforts to incorporate data analysis and computation into physics coursework.