D-Lab's workshops and consulting services are paused for the summer. Our core staff will be focusing on special projects and other endeavors. We look forward to seeing you in the fall and hope you have a great summer.
Grazia is a postdoctoral scholar at the Chemical Science Division at Berkeley Lab and a Data Science Fellow at D-Lab. Her research has focused on several different aspects of atmospheric chemistry and she is now interested in data science and machine learning tools applied to atmospheric pollution problems.
Amanda is a PhD candidate in the statistics department at Berkeley. Her research focuses on causal inference with applications in education, political science and sports. Previously she earned her Bachelor’s degree in mathematics and statistics, with a secondary in computer science, from Harvard.
I use data science to study political learning, organization, and mobilization among marginalized populations. I have always loved programming and want to serve people lacking voice and representation in a society. I am blessed to have found and chosen computational social science—a field situated between social science and data science—as my main research area.
I also love teaching people how to code, especially social scientists, and I take that mission seriously. I have taught computational tools and techniques at both graduate and undergraduate levels in semester-...
Brooks received his Ph.D. in History from UC Berkeley and was trained in Data Science at General Assembly. His work applies digital tools and methods to the study of modern cities and urban issues. At D-Lab, he teaches and consults on data analytics, machine learning, geospatial analysis, and natural language processing with Python and SQL.
Computational and data-driven research increasingly requires developing complex codebases. At the same time, many scientists don’t receive training in software engineering practices, resulting in, for some, the perception that scientists write terrible software. As scientists, good software should accelerate our work and facilitate its reproducibility. While building good coding practices takes some time and experience, it doesn’t require a...
As part of my Masters of Public Health program I needed to complete a capstone. Working on a manuscript is a lot of back and forth: You need to make edits, fix your words and figures, and sometimes re-work entire sections. If you are like me, the thought of doing this process over a long period of time in Word makes me nauseous. Two main issues that cause this nausea for me are:
I frequently forget to make a record of my writing and often overwrite work
Copying and pasting figures while arguing with Word’s formatting...