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A new research funding program for interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of democracy, public policy, technology, and data science. Apply by December 1st.

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Using AI and Data Science to Reliably Detect Internet Censorship in Real Time

A new project will build new AI and data science tools that monitor and detect Internet censorship with greater levels of confidence.

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New College Data Science Major: From Foundations to Insight to Impact

UChicago students will learn how to analyze data and apply it to critical real-world problems in medicine, public policy, the social and physical sciences, and many other domains.

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Rising Stars in Data Science Workshop

Our next workshop focused on celebrating and fast tracking the careers of exceptional data scientists will take place on November 11th and 12th.

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Largest-Ever Summer Lab Adds 55 Students, New Social Impact Track

Students work on research projects in our program to train and inspire the next generation of interdisciplinary computational and data scientists.

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First-Ever Data4All Workshop Nurtures Future Data Scientists From Chicago’s South Side

High school students learned about the basics of data science and the various career pathways available to them with computational skills.

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DSI Discovery Challenge Awardees Train Data Science on Medicine, Clean Water, and Education

Four new projects funded by the DSI Discovery Challenge program will build interdisciplinary partnerships, open source software, and tools for real-world problems.

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The Data Science Institute transcends traditional boundaries by organizing our research into interdisciplinary themes focused on high impact results that can benefit society.

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Internet Access & Equity Initiative

Developing new data science tools to measure broadband access and working with community partners to make high-speed internet accessible to all.

Data Science

Sensing + Data Acquisition

Communications + Internet

Society + Policy

This undated handout image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Michigan, shows The Four Corners area, in red, left, is the major US hot spot for methane emissions in this map showing how much emissions varied from average background concentrations from 2003-2009 (dark colors are lower than average; lighter colors are higher. Satellite data spotted a surprising hot spot of the potent heat-trapping gas methane over part of the American southwest. Those measurements hint that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considerably underestimates leaks of natural gas, also called methane. In a new look at methane from space, the four corners area of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona and Utah jump out in glowing red with about 1.3 million pounds of methane a year. Thats about 80 percent more than the EPA figured and traps more heat than all the carbon dioxide produced yearly in Sweden. (AP Photo/NASA, JPL-Caltech, University of Michigan)

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Machine Learning and Satellite Imaging to Reduce Methane Emissions

Develop a data-driven approach to methane emissions monitoring and regulation that leverages machine learning and high-resolution emissions measurements from satellites.

Machine Learning + AI

Image Analysis

Biology + Environment

Economics + Business

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Rational Protein Engineering using Data-Driven Generative Models

Combine machine learning with high-throughput gene synthesis and rapid assay to learn nature’s rules for protein design and create synthetic proteins with elevated or new properties.

Machine Learning + AI

Biology + Environment

Project2019

A Data Processing Pipeline for Police Communications

Build a pipeline for automatically transcribing law enforcement radio communications, creating a new data source for the study of adverse police outcomes.

Data Engineering

Text Analysis

Society + Policy

Upcoming Events

Join the DSI community for talks, workshops and other gatherings that spark new collaborations and technological discoveries.

Nov

DSI EventsNov 22, 2021

Information Session: DSI Postdoctoral Program

Dec

DSI EventsDec 06, 2021

Gari Clifford (Emory) – Mythological Medical Machine Learning: Boosting the performance of a deep learning medical data classifier using realistic medical models

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