Data Science

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Morgan G. Ames
Assistant 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
Daniel Aranki
Assistant Professor of Practice
Predictive medicine; artificial intelligence; machine learning; tele-health; information disclosure; privacy; security.
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Associate Professor
Natural language processing, computational social science, machine learning, digital humanities
Coye Cheshire
Professor
Trust, social exchange, social psychology, and information exchange
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Professor
Biosensory computing; climate informatics; information economics and policy
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Associate Professor (I School and EECS)
Data management, interactive or human-in-the-loop data analytics, information visualization, crowdsourcing, data science

Data Science news

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On the Nature Podcast, Professor Blumenstock discusses his research using machine learning to help deliver aid to Togo’s poorest citizens. 

Emily Aiken, doctoral student at the UC Berkeley School of Information

Governments and humanitarian groups can use machine learning algorithms and mobile phone data to get aid to those who need it most during a humanitarian crisis, we found in newly published research.

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Ph.D. student Emily Aiken and Professor Joshua Blumenstock used mobile phone data and machine learning to quickly and accurately direct the Togolese government’s COVID-19 cash assistance to its poorest residents in a first-of-its-kind study published March 16 in Nature.

South Hall at UC Berkeley is home to the School of Information

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

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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.

Kevin Lustig

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

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