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How much difference does closing schools make in limiting the spread of COVID-19? How about border restrictions? Stay-at-home orders? A group of researchers from Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and University of Illinois have built an app to help explore these questions. COVIDVIS enables users to look at the interplay of these and other interventions and the number of reported COVID-19 cases and deaths. The idea is...

A team led by two Berkeley faculty has received a grant to investigate and address eviction spikes and displacement risks related to COVID-19. They’re among the first grantees of the newly created C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute for projects focused on COVID-19 response and recovery. [[{"fid":"1805","view_mode":"width_200","fields":{"format":"width_200","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"chapple - blumenstock","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"chapple - blumenstock"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"5":{"format":"width_200","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"chapple - blumenstock","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"chapple - blumenstock"}},"attributes":{"alt":"chapple - blumenstock","title":"chapple - blumenstock","style":"float: right;","class":"media-element file-width-200","data-delta":"5"}}]] Karen Chapple, Professor and Chair of...

Coming May 5: Our virtual Showcase highlighting students' amazing work designing courses, investigating the human and social contexts and ethics of data, and leveraging data science for everything from making cyberspace inclusive to promoting environmental justice.

Extrapolating from Italian data, University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory data scientists estimate that the fatality rate for COVID-19 is higher than some recent estimates have suggested.

Hany Farid is conducting a major survey to find out how far COVID-19 online conspiracy theories have penetrated the population. The EECS and I School professor ultimately aims to develop strategies to stop misinformation about COVID-19 before it settles into people’s minds.

Accenture Applied Intelligence and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) are building a strategic relationship to further the field of data science. This collaboration aims to explore major social and scientific challenges, such as ethical AI, biomedicine, and environmental sustainability in California.

The Data Science Education Program is excited to host a series of online resources and virtual events to welcome our newly admitted students. If you are interested in learning more about Data Science at Cal, please explore our Cal Week events from April 18-24!

In this video conversation, Jennifer Chayes, associate provost of the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society and dean of the School of Information, speaks with three UC Berkeley faculty about how data can be used to combat racial health disparities, rather than perpetuate them.

Berkeley's Computing and Data Science in Action Join us this Tuesday, April 21 for Understanding and Seeking Equity amid COVID-19 , a conversation with UC Berkeley researchers leveraging computing and data science to support COVID-19 response and recovery. Emerging data show the COVID-19 pandemic is amplifying socioeconomic disparities as the coronavirus advances across the country and the world. In this interactive conversation, three faculty researchers...

From understanding the impacts of public health interventions on fighting COVID-19 to seeking out new drug targets and vaccines to studying the virus’s possible effects on the 2020 U.S. presidential election, UC Berkeley researchers are using the tools of data science to solve some of the most pressing challenges posed by the pandemic. In a live webcast on Tuesday, April 7, an interdisciplinary cast of...