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Previous Discovery Projects

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Quantifying Ecosystem Carbon Cycling

Technical Area(s)

Geographic information system (GIS)

Classified News

Building NLP Models to Classify News Articles

Social Sciences

Technical Area(s)

Natural language processing (NLP)

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Precision Medicine Using Text Mining and Data Science

Technical Area(s)

Natural language processing (NLP)

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Ancient World Citation Analysis

Technical Area(s)

Natural language processing (NLP)

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Solar forecasting

Physical Science/Engineering

Technical Area(s)

Machine Learning (ML)

Mentia: Facial Emotion Recognition and Speech To Text For Dementia Patients

Technical Area(s)

Natural language processing (NLP)

Alecto AI: Cross-content abuse content moderation tool

Social Sciences

Technical Area(s)

Machine Learning (ML)

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Application for Driving AR-for-Architecture Marketing and Sales Growth

Data Visualizations

Industry/Economics

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Causal Inference in Data Science Platform

Data Visualizations

Industry/Economics

AI Platform for Social Media Listening

Social Sciences

Technical Area(s)

Machine Learning (ML)

Yosemite Water

Analysis of Yosemite and Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park Long Term Hydrology

Technical Area(s)

Geographic information system (GIS)

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Continuation of ESG text analysis project from Fall 2021 Data Science Discovery

Technical Area(s)

Natural language processing (NLP)

Synthetic Architecture

Theoretical Research on Synthetic Data for Machine Learning

Platforms/Infrastructure

Technical Area(s)

Machine Learning (ML)

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Converting User Data to Drive Growth at Budding Seed Startup "Wing"

Platforms/Infrastructure

Technical Area(s)

Natural language processing (NLP)

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Accounting for Growth of Chesapeake Bay Pollution

Technical Area(s)

Geographic information system (GIS)

Water Scoop

Machine Learning for Groundwater Model Emulation

Technical Area(s)

Machine Learning (ML)

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Flaubert Project - Literary Analysis

Technical Area(s)

Natural language processing (NLP)

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Public Editor - Labeling News Misinformation

Social Sciences

Technical Area(s)

Natural language processing (NLP)

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Game data analysis for discovering implicit communication

Data Visualizations

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Causal Inference Dashboard - Sliding Scale Health

Platforms/Infrastructure

Technical Area(s)

Machine Learning (ML)

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Web-Crawling for All: A Universal, Accessible Framework for Collecting Digital Data

Platforms/Infrastructure

Technical Area(s)

Natural language processing (NLP)

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Street Level Organizations in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Data Visualizations

Technical Area(s)

Machine Learning (ML)

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Search Driven Analytics - Simplicata

Data Visualizations

Platforms/Infrastructure

Social Sciences

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Visualizing BART Daily Operations

Data Visualizations

Technical Area(s)

Geographic information system (GIS)

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Pre-trained Video Models with Domain Transfer for Efficient Disease Detection Using Echocardiograms

Data Visualizations

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Theoretical Research in Planning Simulations using Reinforcement Learning

Physical Science/Engineering

Students walking up the steps to the Campanile on campus. (Photo /Keegan Houser)

Equity and environmental education - Social network analysis

Social Sciences

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Deep-learning for real-time prediction of storm-surges and tsunamis

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Data Integration to demonstrate the impact of women's leadership

Social Sciences

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Country Risk Service Performance Model

Industry/Economics

Child Welfare collaboration with Berkeley Journalism and PBS

Social Sciences

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California Media Landscape Project / Exploring CA's News Deserts and more

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Build data pipeline for mobile app

Platforms/Infrastructure

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Build a Speech Emotion Recognition system

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Analyzing education and income disparities between persons with disabilities and without disabilities specifically by state, gender and race

Social Sciences

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Analyses of Distributed Data Accesses

Platforms/Infrastructure

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Algorithmic Analysis to Better Connect Patients with Services

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Agent-based modeling of COVID-19 with a focus on health equity

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Dynamics on Reddit

Social Sciences

Technical Area(s)

Natural language processing (NLP)

Crops

Developing standard phenology crop signatures for training Earth Observation classification models

Social Sciences

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