Python

James Hall

Consultant
Department of Statistics

James Hall is a graduate student in the Statistics MA program at University of California, Berkeley. He is a husband and father to three awesome kids. Originally from Baltimore, MD, James earned his bachelors in Mathematics at the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY in 2011, and served as a U.S. Army officer. He’s served as a leader at multiple levels within large organizations with a professional focus on visualizing and communicating complex analysis to decision makers. James’ experience and coursework give him expertise in navigating different statistical methods,...

Michael Ruiz

IUSE Research Team
Psychology

Michael earned his B.A.in Psychology from UC Berkeley and currently works as the manager of Professor Okonofua's Equity, Diversity, and Empathy Navigation Sciences Lab in the UC Berkeley Psychology department.

Hikari Murayama

Senior Data Science Fellow, Senior Instructor
Digital Health Social Justice
Energy and Resources Group

Hikari is a graduate student in the Energy and Resource Group. Her research interests involve utilizing remote sensing and geospatial analysis to address pressing problems at the intersection of humans and climate. She recently served as a Data Science for Social Good Fellow at the University of Washington eScience Institute in the summer of 2020. She is experienced and happy to help in the areas of geospatial analysis, remote sensing, and other statistical analyses and methods. Hikari is devoted to helping community members realize their potential to conduct...

Cheng Ren

Senior Data Science Fellow
School of Social Welfare

Cheng Ren is a D-Lab Senior Data Science Fellow and a Ph.D. student at the School of Social Welfare. His research interests are community engagement and assessment, nonprofit development, community database, computational social welfare, and data for social goods.

Wadzanai Makomva

Discovery Graduate Fellow
School of Information

Wadzanai is a graduate student at the School of Information and she is a part of the MIMS program. She has a vested interest in the integration between data science, technology and developmental surveillance techniques. She has prior experience working as a quantitative analyst in project management consulting within a professional services firm, public health, and most recently in sustainable construction materials. Wadzanai is particularly interested in increasing access of STEM subjects and fields to under-privileged women of color in the African continent, particularly her home...

Aniket Gupta

Discovery Fellow
School of Information

I am a first year masters student at UC Berkeley school of Information majoring in Information Management and Systems with a focus on Data Science and ML. I like to build optimized yet simple and scalable solutions powered by data using emerging AI technologies.

Caedi Seim

Discovery Consultant, UTech
Data Science Discovery Program

Hello! I'm Caedi and I'm a junior studying Data Science with a domain emphasis in Cognition. I'm interested in leveraging data science for non-technical fields, closing the data literacy gap, and I'm also very interested in design. Always willing to chat!

Daniel Lobo

Computational Social Science Fellow
Sociology

Daniel Lobo is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology with an emphasis in Political Economy at UC Berkeley. He is broadly interested in how culture, or the unspoken “rules of the game,” reproduces inequality within a system of racial capitalism. At the individual level, he is interested in documenting and measuring the extent to which cultural capital and social capital enable or constrain opportunities for intergenerational mobility. At the organizational level, he is interested in documenting and measuring the extent to which culturally-based selection and promotion processes...

Understanding Rock Climbing using Python & SQL

March 22, 2022
Sean Perez
Understanding Rock Climbing using Python & SQL

The Rise of Climbing

As an avid rock climber, I’ve been curious about how climbing became so popular in such a brief time, and what these climbers look like. Unlike other well established sports such as tennis, football, or basketball, climbing has only recently gained attention on the public stage, and little data is available about this burgeoning sport.For context, back in the day, climbing was a serious commitment! You had to find a buddy to learn how to use climbing equipment...

Twitter Text Analysis: A Friendly Introduction

October 25, 2022
Mingyu Yuan

Read part 2 here.

Introduction

Text analysis techniques, including sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and named entity recognition, have been increasingly used to probe patterns in a variety of text-based documents, such as books, social media posts, and others. This blog post introduces Twitter text analysis, but is not intended to cover all of the aforementioned topics. The tutorial is broken down into two parts. In this very first post, I...