Data Science

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Morgan G. Ames

Morgan Ames

Alumni (MIMS 2006)
Assistant Professor of Practice
Science and technology studies; computer-supported cooperative work and social computing; education; anthropology; youth technocultures; ideology and inequity; critical data science
Daniel Aranki

Daniel Aranki

Assistant Professor of Practice
Predictive medicine; artificial intelligence; machine learning; tele-health; information disclosure; privacy; security.
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David Bamman

Associate Professor
Natural language processing, computational social science, machine learning, digital humanities
Coye Cheshire

Coye Cheshire

Professor
Trust, social exchange, social psychology, and information exchange
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John Chuang

Professor
Biosensory computing; climate informatics; information economics and policy

Recent Publications

Addressing contemporary threats in anonymised healthcare data using privacy engineering
Privacy guarantees for personal mobility data in humanitarian response
Application of NLP in total joint arthroplasty: opportunities and challenges
An overview of machine learning in orthopedic surgery: an educational paper
Differential Privacy for Black-Box Statistical Analyses
Monkeypox Outbreak Analysis: An Extensive Study Using Machine Learning Models and Time Series Analysis
Survivability of industrial internet of things using machine learning and smart contracts
SDN and application layer DDoS attacks detection in IoT devices by attention‐based Bi‐LSTM‐CNN
A transfer learning approach for detecting offensive and hate speech on social media platforms
Time series analysis and anomaly detection for trustworthy smart homes

Data Science news

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Data Science Master’s Project Fosters Sustainability by Organizing Carbon Offset Data

Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) alums Kevin Ngoc Hoang, Xinyun (Roxy) Rong, Maggie Corry, and Roshni Suresh Tajnekar are the winners of the Sarukkai Social Impact Award, for their project, Carbon AIQ.

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Joshua Blumenstock’s Togo Research Featured in Nature Article on Using AI to Beat Poverty
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Fall 2024 MICS and MIDS Capstone Award Winners

Outstanding MICS, MIDS, and 5th Year MIDS capstone projects.

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UC Berkeley Alum Uses Data Science To Shape California’s Energy Future

Alan Jian offers one example of how Data Science Undergraduate Studies and School of Information’s Master of Information and Data Science program alumni are using their skills to make an impact through public service.

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Computational Folklorist Tim Tangherlini Joins the I School

Tim Tangherlini is a folklorist and ethnographer who is interested in the circulation of stories on and across social networks, and the ways in which stories are used by individuals in their ongoing negotiation of ideology with the groups to which they belong.

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Summer 2024 MICS and MIDS Capstone Award Winners

Outstanding MICS and MIDS capstone projects.

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Award-Winning Data Science Project Continues to Revolutionize Legionnaires’ Disease Investigation and Prevention

A Hal R. Varian Award-winning capstone project from 2021 has been published in the July 2024 issue of The Lancet Digital Health, an internationally trusted source of clinical, public health, and global health knowledge. 

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New IceBerk Lab Aims to Empower All with Climate Information Tools

The UC Berkeley School of Information is launching IceBerk, a multidisciplinary lab focused on using informatics for climate empowerment.

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New Research Aims to Curb Illegal Sand Mining with Data-Driven Mapping Tools

A group of scholars from the School of Information are tackling the issue of illegal sand mining with the help of a grant from the Mozilla Technology Foundation (MTF) and collaborators from India.

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Berkeley Women Look Towards the Future of Data Science at WiDS 2024

At the Women in Data Science conference held at UC Berkeley this past week, four educators affiliated with the School of Information presented to a crowd of over 60 attendees.