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

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

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

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PIT-UN Grant Expands Civic Data & Technology Clinic

A new grant from the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) will support and expand the CDAC/Harris clinic, which pairs student data scientists with social good organizations.

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CDAC Data & Technology Outlook

Critical conversations between industry leaders and researchers pushing the frontiers of data science, security and privacy, data analysis and discovery, and artificial intelligence.

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Mapping and Mitigating the Urban Digital Divide

Data.org grants $1.2 million to CDAC to lead data science “moonshot," developing new tools to make high-speed internet accessible to all.

CDAC Winter 2021 Distinguished Speaker Series - Bias Correction: Solutions for Socially Responsible Data Science

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Revisit the CDAC Winter 2021 Distinguished Speaker Series

Watch talks from interdisciplinary researchers and thinkers in our Bias Correction: Solutions for Socially Responsible Data Science series.

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Mapping and Mitigating the Urban Digital Divide

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

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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

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Navigating the Data Science Job Search in Academia

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Campus EventsMay 18, 2021

Distinguished Entrepreneur Series: A Fireside Chat with Nathan Blecharczyk (Airbnb)

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Could AI Help Recover Energy and Fresh Water from Municipal Wastewater?

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