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New page on BIDS formalizing the transition from the BIDS Collaborative to the Data Science Discovery Program.

The Library, the Division of Data Sciences, BIDS, and the Data Science Nexus student clubs welcomes you the Fall 2017 Data Science Showcase on December 7th at Moffitt Library, Room 405 from 11 to 5PM. Over 150 data science projects from Data 8, Division of Data Sciences student teams, BIDS Discovery Projects, and various Data Science Nexus student clubs like Machine Learning at Berkeley will...

[[{"fid":"193","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":{"1":{"format":"default","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":false,"field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":false}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"class":"media-element file-default","data-delta":"1"}}]] On Thursday, November 2nd, 2017, the Interim Dean of the Division of Data Sciences will present an overview of the upcoming Data Science major along with other opportunties available to student in Berkeley's fast growing data science ecosystem. Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-science-townhall-registration-39304923083

This is a republication from the original post from: https://www.facebook.com/theNASciences/photos/a.395922850548784.1073741831.381954325278970/1141779482629780 Photo: Professor Bin Yu Over the last few centuries, statistics has evolved from gathering demographic information about people to an awesome field of helping data-driven decisions in industry and data-driven knowledge generation in sciences and social sciences. For example, clinical trials are conducted by medical doctors and biostatisticians to provide evidence for the U.S. Food...

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UC Berkeley Data Science Education Infrastructure Team: Ryan Lovett, Chris Hench, Yuvi Panda, Vinitra Swamy, Gunjan Baid, and Chris Holdgraf at Jupytercon 2017. In just five semesters at UC Berkeley, Foundations of Data Science (Data 8) (link is external) has grown to over 1,000 students (link is external), making it the fastest-growing course in the university’s history. Teaching data science accessibly and at scale depends...

The Berkeley Division of Data Sciences and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) are proud to announce the Berkeley Distinguished Lectures in Data Science. This series features faculty doing visionary research that illustrates the character of the ongoing data, computational, inferential revolution. In this inaugural Fall 2017 "local edition" we bring together Berkeley faculty working in these areas here on our own campus. Where...

In June, more than 30 faculty and instructors across a range of disciplines – from English to Sociology to Neuroscience to Physics – took a week out of their summer to explore how to incorporate tools developed for data science into their own teaching. The faculty members attended the intensive week-long Data Science Pedagogy & Practice workshop hosted in early June by the Data Science...

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[[{"fid":"152","view_mode":"width_400","fields":{"format":"width_400","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"David Culler","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"David Culler"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"width_400","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"David Culler","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"David Culler"},"2":{"format":"width_400","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"David Culler","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"David Culler"}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"alt":"David Culler","title":"David Culler","style":"float: left;","class":"media-element file-width-400","data-delta":"2"}}]]Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences David Culler has been named as Interim Dean for the newly created Division of Data Sciences. He will begin his new role on July 1, 2017. Please see below for the full announcement, which was sent to the campus community on May 26 by Interim Executive Vice Chancellor...