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

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UC Berkeley Named #2 Online Master in Data Science Degree

Jan 20, 2022

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.

January 2022 Graduation Awards

Jan 16, 2022

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

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

Nov 16, 2021

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.

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

Dec 2, 2021

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

Jennifer Chayes on How To Fight Hate Online

Oct 27, 2021

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

Sep 8, 2021

Data for Good Fellowship Recipient Uses Data Science to Help Fight Human Trafficking

Oct 14, 2021

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.

UC Berkeley Researchers Receive $2 Million Grant to Build Criminal Justice Big Data Tools

Sep 7, 2021

I School Professors Aditya Parameswaran and Niloufar Salehi are among a group of UC Berkeley researchers that recently won a 3-year, $2 million National Science Foundation grant to improve the useability of big criminal justice datasets for public defenders and others.