Vinitra is the team lead of the DSEP Mapping Research Team and a Computer Science major at UC Berkeley! She loves exploring the interdisciplinary nature of data science through machine learning, topic modeling, interactive visualizations, and natural language processing -- she's also currently a GSI for Data 8.
My name is Zhongling Jiang. I am a third year, Statistics major and my interest is in data science.
I'm a Junior in CS who love new experiences and meshing new ideas with old ones, which is why I chose CS in the first place. This interest extends to most aspects of my life - I love diversity - e.g. my favorite types of music are ones that combine genres, like classical-music rap or electronic jazz.
I'm Subhiksha, a sophomore at Cal studying computer science and cognitive science. I'm greatly fascinated by data science and design, and I look forward to continuing on the DSEP mapping team and contributing to the thriving data science environment at Berkeley.
Josh is a senior at UC Berkeley, double majoring in Cognitive Science and Rhetoric. He loves data science for its highly collaborative environment and the awesome visualizations that convert data into compelling stories.
Check out the various projects the Mapping team has been working on here at BIDS.
After scraping the UC Berkeley Course Catalog and identifying data-related courses, the Mapping Team built a classifier to cluster courses into different concentrations (i.e. Social Science, Econ/Business) and course types (Foundational, Applied, Meta). We also developed tree relationships from the prerequisite listings so students can plan their course schedules and understand the hierarchical relationships between these data-centric classes.
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As Data Science curriculum and research emerge at various top-tier institutions, the Mapping team realized that there has never been a cohesive analysis or ranking of these programs. We decided to build our own ranking system and analyze the affinity towards industry, strength of curriculum, diversity of faculty, and variety of research projects for UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard and Yale. Our efforts at comparing these institutions are highlighted in an infographic-style report.
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Looking at over 10 years of Berkeley Research Grant Data from the Sponsored Projects Office (SPO), the DSEP Mapping Team analyzed the current state of research at Berkeley by doing a time series analysis over department/divisions with a focus on funding sources.
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The DSEP Mapping team also worked to provide a visual representation of the Data Science Planning Initiative's Faculty Advisory Report, providing more clear and accessible information for students. In this report, faculty proposed a new Dean of Computation and Data Science (pictured above).