Data Science

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Morgan G. Ames

Morgan Ames

Associate Professor of Practice
Alumni (MIMS 2006)
Science and technology studies; computer-supported cooperative work and social computing; education; anthropology; youth technocultures; ideology and inequity; critical data science
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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
Climate informatics; biosensory computing; incentive-centered design

Recent Publications

Shaping Our Tools: Contestability as a Means to Promote Responsible Algorithmic Decision Making in the Professions
Exploring Neural Net Augmentation to BERT for Question Answering on SQUAD 2.0

Contextual CNNs to enhance BERT

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Securing Your Data From Breaches Will Help Us Improve Healthcare

When you go to a new healthcare clinic in the United States, doctors and nurses pull up your patient record based on your name and birthdate.  Sometimes it’s not your chart they pull up.  This is not only a healthcare problem; it’s a data science problem.

Migration and Social Networks: New Insights from Novel Data
This Thing Called Fairness: Disciplinary Confusion Realizing a Value in Technology
Information-intensive innovation: the changing role of the private firm in the research ecosystem through the study of biosensed data
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Sensing is Believing: What People Think Biosensors Can Reveal About Thoughts and Feelings
The strength of long-range ties in population-scale social networks
Don't forget people in the use of big data for development
Machine Learning for the Developing World using Mobile Communication Metadata

Data Science news

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MIMS Student Is Passionate About Making Data Literacy Accessible
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Joshua Blumenstock’s Research on Micro-Estimates of Wealth Data Covered by SciDev
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UC Berkeley Named #2 Online Master in Data Science Degree

The Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) program at the UC Berkeley School of Information ranked #2 among online data science master’s degree programs by Fortune magazine, released on January 19, 2022.

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Fortune Magazine Shares Application Strategies for Master of Information and Data Science
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January 2022 Graduation Awards

The School of Information’s January 2022 commencement celebrated outstanding MIDS and MICS capstone projects and faculty and students.

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Data For Good Scholar Aims to Bring Data Science Solutions to Humanitarian Causes

MIDS student Kevin Lustig has been awarded the Fall 2021 Jack Larson Data for Good Fellowship.

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Do Online Searches Serve Up Biased Results Regarding California Ballot Propositions?

Ph.D. student Emma Lurie is researching potential bias in search engine results on California propositions, with data science support from Berkeley undergrads in the Data Science Discovery program.

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Jennifer Chayes on How To Fight Hate Online
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Data for Good Fellowship Recipient Uses Data Science to Help Fight Human Trafficking

5th Year MIDS student Ben Chu has been awarded the Summer 2021 Jack Larson Data Science for Good Fellowship for his work on improving supply chain transparency to end human trafficking and forced labor.

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UC Berkeley Researchers Win $2M Grant for Criminal Justice Datasets