Data Science

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Morgan 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.

David Bamman

Associate Professor

Natural language processing, computational social science, machine learning, digital humanities

Coye Cheshire

Professor

Trust, social exchange, social psychology, and information exchange

John Chuang

Professor

Biosensory computing; climate informatics; information economics and policy

Aditya Parameswaran

Associate Professor (I School and Computer Science)

Data management, interactive or human-in-the-loop data analytics, information visualization, crowdsourcing, data science

Recent Publications

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Securing Your Data From Breaches Will Help Us Improve Healthcare

Aug 2, 2020

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

May 9, 2020

This Thing Called Fairness: Disciplinary Confusion Realizing a Value in Technology

Nov 14, 2019

Information-intensive innovation: the changing role of the private firm in the research ecosystem through the study of biosensed data

Aug 16, 2019

Sensing is Believing: What People Think Biosensors Can Reveal About Thoughts and Feelings

Jun 13, 2019

The strength of long-range ties in population-scale social networks

Dec 31, 2018

Don't forget people in the use of big data for development

Dec 30, 2018

Machine Learning for the Developing World using Mobile Communication Metadata

Dec 10, 2018

The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction

Feb 13, 2018

This essay explores the changing significance of gender in fiction, asking especially whether its prominence in characterization has varied from the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first. The authors found that while gender roles were becoming more flexible, the space actually allotted to (real, and fictional) women on the shelves of libraries was contracting sharply.

Imputing KCs with Representations of Problem Content and Context

May 8, 2017

Data Science news

Look for ‘Who’s Not at the Table’ and Other Advice From Female Data Scientists

Mar 14, 2023

Joyce Shen, Dean Jennifer Chayes, and others shared advice at a panel at WiDS Berkeley.

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Fellowship Recipients Strive to Use Technology to Understand Climate Change

Mar 21, 2023

Kevin Lustig and Ando Shah have been awarded the 2022–23 Quigley/Heffernan Family Environmental Fellowship.

Professor John Chuang and Ph.D. Student Ando Shah Work With OpenEarth Foundation

Jan 25, 2023

Fall 2022 MICS and MIDS Capstone Award Winners

Jan 23, 2023

Outstanding MICS and MIDS capstone projects.

How a Student Found Purpose Using Data Science in Journalism

Nov 28, 2022

Second-year MIMS student Ian Castro shares his experience in the new course Digital Accountability: Exploring Section 230, which provided an opportunity for data science students to communicate how technological systems work and what they mean for the public.

Ph.D. Alum Doris Lee Selected For Forbes’ 30 Under 30

Dec 12, 2022

Doris Lee (Ph.D. ’21), who is 26, was featured on Forbes’s “30 Under 30” list for enterprise technology in 2023.

MIDS Students Use Data Science to Model Air Pollution and Pediatric Health Outcomes

Dec 12, 2022

A team of MIDS students recently presented at the Stanford Maternal & Child Health Research Institute Symposium.

This Is the Worst Time for Donald Trump to Return to Twitter

Nov 20, 2022

Apparently, the people has spoken, and they want former President Donald Trump back on Twitter. However, Hany Farid believes that this would be the worst time for him to return to the social media platform.

MIMS Student Uses Data Science to Develop Eviction Database

Nov 21, 2022

Ian Castro (MIMS ’23) is working with the Eviction Research Network, a project seeking to create an organized database on how evictions are occurring in the United States.

Data for Good Fellowship Recipient Strives to Improve Food Production Systems

Nov 9, 2022

Maria Isabel Navarro Sanchez has been awarded the Fall 2022 Data For Good Fellowship for her work using data science to improve the sustainability of fishing and farming communities.