This summer the UW Data Science Minor, in collaboration with eScience, offered the third iteration of the Humanities Data Science Summer Institute (HDSSI). Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty from several university departments gathered to work together on humanities data science research projects. During this collaborative process, students attended training sessions with guidance from HDSSI co-founders […]| eScience Institute
This September, SSEC’s Don Setiawan traveled to London to co-organize a workshop with collaborators at the University of Copenhagen and Imperial College London. The workshop offered an overview of SSEC’s work on Phylo2Vec, a software package designed to accelerate phylogenetic research. Phylogenetic trees are diagrams that illustrate species’ shared evolutionary history. Represented as bifurcating binary […]| eScience Institute
Last week, Carlos Garcia Jurado Suarez and Anshul Tambay from the Scientific Software Engineering Center (SSEC) joined researchers at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) for part of a week-long workshop focused on predicting the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. The event was part of the Biodiversity Horizons project, which aims to develop scalable, open-source […]| eScience Institute
Partners: Zach Almquist and June Yang SSEC Engineer: Anant Mittal Graduate Student Leads: Ihsan Kahveci, Emily Porter Undergraduate and Graduate Student Engineers: Arushi Agarwal, Hana Amos, Zack Crouse, Devanshi Desai, Elizabeth Deng, Kristen L. Gustafson, Finley Hutchison, Kaden Kapadia, Hannah Lam, Aryan Palave, KelliAnn Ramirez, Natalie Robbins, Hrudhai Umashankar, Jasmine Vuong, Ella Weinberg Research Goals […]| eScience Institute
By Kate Rich In 2018, NASA launched the Ice, Cloud, and Land Elevation Satellite 2 (ICESat-2) into space for scientific research. The satellite enables scientists to measure the elevation of tree canopies, oceans, sea ice, and ice sheets across the globe with its photon-counting laser altimeter. With these data, researchers can further explore how the […]| eScience Institute
By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is SSEC Senior Research Software Engineer Niki Burggraf. From programming languages to human languages, Niki has always had a knack for translating knowledge across different systems. Growing up in the […]| eScience Institute
By Kate Rich The eScience Staff Spotlight is a series featuring individual members of our team and their career journey. This week’s featured staff member is Anthony Arendt, our Director of Community Engagement Programs and Senior Data Science Fellow. Anthony knows the importance of hard earned data all too well. As a Research Professor at […]| eScience Institute
Project Lead: Jihyeon Bae, UW Political Science Data Science Lead: Curtis Atkisson Does having a diverse mix of member states make an inter-governmental organization (IGO) more or less cooperative? Scholars have long debated whether regime heterogeneity, especially variation in democracy levels, helps or hinders intergovernmental organizations (IGOs). Yet despite rich theoretical discussions, empirical findings remain […]| eScience Institute
Project Lead: Amke Nimmrich, UW Chemistry Data Science Lead: Bryna Hazelton X-ray Free Electron Lasers help us more deeply understand the details of a chemical reaction. They are large scale facilities providing ultrashort pulses of X-ray light at high repetition rates. These light pulses can be used to observe reaction dynamics in real time (femto- […]| eScience Institute
Project Lead: Amelia Keyser-Gibson, UW Environmental and Forest Sciences Data Science Leads: Noah Benson and Bernease Herman The Climate Ready Vines project is a multi-state collaborative research effort to evaluate and monitor potential energy saving, water use, ecological, physiological and horticultural characteristics of vine plants across different climates and latitudes in the Western U.S. Vine taxa […]| eScience Institute