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 EECS)

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

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.

Blumenstock’s Research Cited in Article About How AI Helped to Deliver Aid in Florida

Oct 10, 2022

MIDS Student Uses Data Science in Service of At-Risk Communities

Oct 12, 2022

Lee Gary has been awarded the Summer 2022 Jack Larson Data For Good Fellowship for his work using data science to assist at-risk communities.

Summer 2022 MICS and MIDS Capstone Award Winners

Aug 23, 2022

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

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Fellowship Recipient Aims To Effect Change in Education for Underrepresented Students

Aug 4, 2022

Noor-Ul-Ain Ali, ’22, was chosen to receive the Sharon X. Lin and Andrew R. Bullen Graduate Fellowship in Data Science for 2022–23. This fellowship supports one incoming 5th Year Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) student who shows a commitment to gender equity within the program.

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UC Berkeley Researchers Use Google Search Data To Examine Interest in At-Home Abortions

May 31, 2022

Berkeley researchers, including Prof. Coye Cheshire, used Google search data to explore interest in at-home abortion and assess its implications.

Dean Chayes: California’s Proposal for New K-12 Math Framework is “Fundamentally Flawed”

May 12, 2022

Jennifer Chayes and Tsu-Jae King author an op-ed for the LA Times: California’s math education needs an update, but not the one proposed.

Ph.D. Student Emma Lurie Recognized for Outstanding Mentorship

Apr 20, 2022

Ph.D. student Emma Lurie is the recipient of a 2022 Outstanding Graduate Student Peer Mentor Award from the UC Berkeley Graduate Division and Graduate Assembly.

MIMS Student Is Passionate About Making Data Literacy Accessible

Mar 1, 2022