National Data Science Education Workshop Shares Best Practices on Teaching the Next Generation of Data Scientists

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The demand for data scientists continues to surge with advances in technology and medicine requiring the skills to analyze, store, and protect data.

Machine Learning and Data Science at Cal

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The Spark + AI Summit 2020 is the largest gathering bringing together data teams in the Apache Spark™ community.

Five Principles to get Undergraduates involved in real-world Data Science Projects

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This article was written by Jae Yeon Kim, a computational social scientist and PhD candidate in Political Science at UC Berkeley. 

Reflecting on Spring 2020

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Despite the difficult circumstances, student researchers in the UC Berkeley Data Science Discovery Research Program continue to push forward and work to come up with innovative solutions to the problems and issues they face, both w

Project Profile: Data-Enabled Donations

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Rent isn’t the only extreme price we pay to live in California. Natural disasters like wildfires, earthquakes, droughts, landslides, and floods are all too common, and increasingly so.

From the Archives: Fall 2018 Discovery Showcase

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Our Fall 2018 Data Science Showcase featured data science research and projects on everything from disaster response to gerrymandering to human rights and AI. 

UC Berkeley Presents Best Practices on Developing a Data Science Research Institutional Strategy

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As the demand for data science research continues to increase, research institutions are taking a closer look at how to create an institutional strategy around data science research.

Spring 2018 Relaunch with BIDS

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New page on BIDS formalizing the transition from the BIDS Collaborative to the Data Science Discovery Program. 

Spotlight: Spring 2020 Discovery Projects

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Students Michael Huang, Neha Hudait, Alan Liang, Arth Vidyarthi, Adhithya Basker and Lyle Lalunio worked with UCSF to apply deep learning to echocardiograms to detect heart disease. 

Berkeley Data Science Celebrates its Second Graduating Class

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The UC Berkeley Data Science Class of 2020 has officially graduated!