Hello, everyone. This newsletter from the UVA School of Data Science includes a great
profile of our very own Lane Rasberry and a write-up about his project with Richard
Knipel, User:Pharos.
I hope everyone is well.
Best,
Esther
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Subject: Data Science News | April 2020
Date: April 17, 2020 at 2:54:13 PM EDT
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April 2020
COVID-19 Update
The School of Data Science has responded to COVID-19 with policy changes to its academic
programs, in alignment with UVA. We have also responded by diving into various research
related projects, ranging from building stochastic spread models, which estimate the
survival rates and infection counts, to creating models which forecast when the surge will
occur in Charlottesville. Learn more about the School of Data Science's response to
COVID-19 in the resource page below.
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Creating a Global Museum of Art
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All of our MSDS students complete a capstone project. Capstone projects challenge UVA Data
Science students to explore, integrate and analyze data to solve real-world problems.
Project teams consist of two to four students, one or more faculty advisors, and a sponsor
organization. For their capstone project, Sana, Sudeepti, and Logan are working with the
Metropolitan Museum of Art to increase accessibility to art. They are using data science
to improve the search of the museum’s online collection and eliminate bias. Learn
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Charlottesville as a Global Hub of COVID-19 Information through Wikipedia
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is bringing University of Virginia research to the forefront of COVID-19 global health
communication through Wikipedia.
Rasberry is the Wikimedian-in-Residence at the School of Data Science. Currently, Rasberry
is writing, editing, and translating COVID-19 articles on Wikipedia. Learn
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Dr. Sana Syed, Pediatrician Gastroenterologist at UVA Hospital, is currently an MSDS
student, and co-leads the Gut Intelligence Lab. Dr. Syed is dedicated to using data to
provide the best information for families going forward after diagnosis. She is using
machine learning to study gut structure and function and better her patients' lives.
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How do Historic Colonial Policies Affect Current Air Pollution in Senegal?
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School of Data Science Presidential Fellows Angelique Demetillo and Dallas Tatman are
using data science to study the connections between historical colonial policies and
current air pollution in Dakar, Senegal. They are studying satellite and nitrogen dioxide
data and leveraging these datasets with ethnographic information. Learn
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Online MSDS Student Highlights
Our MSDS online cohorts are getting their degrees from all over the country. From doctors
to manufacturers, our cohorts are made up of dynamic groups of data scientists.
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Looking to grow your professional network? UVA’s School of Data Science Executive
Education is creating a widespread community where you can build and grow among other
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The University of Virginia School of Data Science held their annual Women in Data Science
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[WiDS] Friday, March 27-- this year in a virtual format, due to COVID-19.
The event was originally to be held in Alumni Hall, where the maximum number of people who
could attend was 300. With the event moved online, 583 people registered from all over the
globe, an unprecedented number for an event hosted by the School of Data Science.
Read more about WiDS and how it addressed the current COVID-19 crisis
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If you were unable to participate in the conference, you can view all 2020 Charlottesville
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Trust and Transparency: Preventing Bias in AI with
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The School of Data Science would have been able to pull off an event of this magnitude
without support from the 2020 Charlottesville Women in Data Science Conference sponsors.
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Alum Abhijith Mandya's Path to Red Hat
MSDS '18 Alum Abhijith Mandya attended Mumbai University, where he majored in
biochemistry. With a taste of analytics in his first job post undergrad, he knew he wanted
to pursue data science.
After graduating with his MSDS in 2018, Mandya landed a job as a Business Data Scientist
at Red Hat, with help from our career services team. Now, he works with forecasting models
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