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UC Berkeley faculty discuss the nature of misinformation during the pandemic and how to assess, evaluate and engage more effectively with the information resources we consult. With the COVID-19 virus spiking worldwide and the need for accurate information about it more important than ever, four data science experts from UC Berkeley held an online discussion on the origins, amplification and impacts of the current infodemic...

UC Berkeley Statistics Professor Deborah Nolan readily admits that writing is difficult for her. And based on what she has heard and seen in 30+ years of teaching, most of her students face the same challenge. Several years ago, she decided to do something about it. She successfully applied for an Art of Writing Seminar Fellowship to teach a class in writing about statistics. One...

Last month, Berkeley’s Data Science Undergraduate Studies (DSUS) hosted the Data Science in Undergraduate Economics Workshop, bringing together academic and corporate leaders actively innovating in the intersection of undergraduate data science and undergraduate economics education. Why this workshop? The inspiration for this inaugural workshop was to provide a collaborative outlet for those teaching at the intersection of data science and economics, showcase the work of...

[[{"fid":"303","view_mode":"width_400","fields":{"format":"width_400","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Human Contexts and Ethics","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Human Contexts and Ethics"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"width_400","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Human Contexts and Ethics","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Human Contexts and Ethics"}},"attributes":{"alt":"Human Contexts and Ethics","title":"Human Contexts and Ethics","class":"media-element file-width-400","data-delta":"1"}}]] It somehow seems appropriate that courses for UC Berkeley’s Human Contexts and Ethics (HCE) program are being taught online via Zoom. With 500 or so students each in their virtual box, coming together as a community to think about the role of technology in shaping...

Mapping for Environmental Justice (MEJ) creates easy-to-use, publicly-available maps that paint a holistic picture of intersecting environmental, social, and health impacts experienced by communities across the US. MEJ's maps combine environmental, public health, and socioeconomic data into a single indicator that reflects the combined impacts of race, poverty, and pollution that low-income communities, communities of color, and historically marginalized communities experience. Our maps are driven...

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The Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium held its inaugural event on October 23rd to highlight the work of exceptional early-career scientists in the broad field of quantitative biological and biomedical sciences, with a track record of research productivity and demonstrated contributions to enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM. The primary goal was to support an increase in the number of talented candidates in faculty...

From the pandemic to an underfunded voting infrastructure, from declining trust in public institutions to efforts by foreign operators to further undermine the system, the 2020 U.S. national election is fraught with ways in which the integrity and security of the results can be unduly influenced, according to five UC Berkeley experts. In an hour-long conversation streamed live on Monday, Oct. 26, and now on...

Five years ago, Data 8 was a new small course at Berkeley and today thousands of students from various disciplines enroll each year. Countless students often share that the reason they declared Data Science as a major is because of the experience they had with Adhikari as their professor. She was awarded “Best Professor” in the Daily Californian’s 2019 edition of the Best of Berkeley...

UC Berkeley's undergraduate Data Science Major has been named No. 1 in the nation by US News. MIT was rated second best, followed by Carnegie Mellon and Stanford. Berkeley's program, part of the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society, was started five years ago and makes its curriculum available to other schools interested in establishing their own data science programs . Currently, more than...