Last Friday, March 19th, the University of Virginia School of Data Science held their annual Women in Data Science Conference planned by Communications Manager and Event Planner Danielle D’andrea. Over 600 people registered for the annual event, which was a live virtual conference this year, due to COVID-19. The day was full of women in different areas of data science, different stages in their careers, and different leadership levels, all doing outstanding work in their fields.

For MSDS students Matthew Edwards, Joseph Wysocki, and Alex Stern, watching a UVA football game is more than just cheering on the hoos. It involves analyzing what the opponent is doing, what UVA is doing, and how to help the coaches make the next best decision. 

WiDS 2021 is made possible by the support of our corporate sponsors, including The Deloitte AI Institute for Government, LMI, Capital One, Oracle for Research, QIM, S&P Global, and Microsoft Azure.  Learn more about these companies and their excitement for sponsoring WiDS.

Code for Charlottesville has grown tremendously since its start in the fall of 2019, with exciting new projects in the works. Jonathan Kropko, Assistant Professor at the School of Data Science, who leads the Code for Charlottesville team broke down the three new projects, working with Charlottesville city street light network, criminal record expungement, and pro bono IT consulting.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States in March of 2020, Mike Porter, Associate Professor at the School of Data Science and Systems Engineering, has taken a deep dive into research surrounding the virus. 

Meet the Online MSDS Student Council! Learn more about where they are from, their positions on student council, why they chose data science, and their mission.

For Colleen Callahan, the creativity of data science drew her to the field. After taking "The Practice of Data Science (DS 3001)," as an undergrad at UVA, Callahan learned she loved all the different steps involved in data science - asking questions, creating data visualizations, manipulating the data, and telling a story. As Callahan was discovering data science at UVA, she was also cultivating her creativity and making her mark on Grounds through jazz.

One of the founding principles of the School of Data Science (SDS) is, as far as possible, to disseminate knowledge openly and freely to all, motivated by the desire to maximize the impact of our research and the recognition of our team members. On February 3, the School of Data Science Academic Affairs Committee passed Open Access Guidelines and Recommendations.

The School of Data Science is teaming up with the UVA Brain Institute, UVA Research Computing, and the UVA Department of Psychology to create a high-performance computing system that will support all of the neuroscientific research and computation across Grounds, called the NEO System.

Meet the 2020-2021 MSDS Student Council! Learn more about where they are from, their positions on student council, and why they chose data science.