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Jordan Weiss, Ph.D.

Data Science Fellow
Demography

Jordan Weiss is a demographer who studies population health and inequality. A central theme of his work concerns the integration of theories across multiple disciplines with advances in statistical and computational science to inform research design and translate findings into actionable, policy-relevant information.

Jordan earned his Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania where he also earned an MA in Statistics. He is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Demography and Data Science Fellow at the University of California,...

Grazia Rovelli, Ph.D.

Data Science Fellow
Chemical Science Division (LBL)

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.

Ilya Akdemir

Data Science Fellow
School of Law

Ilya is a JSD candidate at UC Berkeley School of Law. His research focuses on natural language processing and machine learning applications that are motivated by both theoretical and practical questions in the legal domain.

Why Teaching Social Scientists How To Code Like A Professional Is Important

September 23, 2020
Jae Yeon Kim, Ph.D.

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-...

Dustin Wallace

IUSE Undergraduate Advisory Board
Data Science

My name is Dustin Wallace, I am a 3rd-year transfer student from Fresno City College. I’m majoring in Data Science and plan to pursue a Master's of Financial Engineering or Master's of Information and Data Science after my time here at Cal. I'm a part of many communities on campus, such as reentry transfer students, Berkeley Underground Scholars, and EOP. My research deals with challenges faced by formerly incarcerated students within higher education, and private prisons. I am currently involved in student trading challenges where I compete against students from all over the world...

Manuscript Workflow with R Markdown and GIT

March 16, 2021
Lawrence Y. Tello

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...