Data Science Community Newsletter
The Data Science Community Newsletter (DSCN) covers academic data science research and institution building, open science efforts, government funding of (data) science, and select applications of data science in industry. Many of our stories are sourced from our readers’ Twitter feeds, which gives the writing a conversational, of-the-moment community-led sensibility. We also provide a data visualization of the week, calls for papers, key events and conferences, and select job postings.
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Intellectual History
The DSCN launched in 2015 to facilitate “imagined community” among the three universities - NYU, UC Berkeley, UW-Seattle - who made up the bi-coastal Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment. The DSCN is now an Academic Data Science Alliance project.
Meet our writers
Brad Stenger is the production editor and ring master of the technical machinery that sources all the DSCN content from the far reaches of the internet. His information discovery and curation stack is what allows us to hit the breadth of coverage while maintaining clear focus on the topics that interest our readers. And he's stepped up to do quite a bit of the writing too. Besides newsletters, Brad enjoys hacking his Garmin and researching wearable technology.
Laura Norén is the DSCN managing editor and lead writer. She synthesizes the news items from Brad's pipeline with witty commentary for the DSCN readers. She also contributes in-depth pieces which can be found in our "From the desk" section and guides the development of newsletter features. She is a Visiting Scholar at NYU’s Center for Data Science. She holds a PhD in Sociology from NYU, undergrad degrees from MIT, and is broadly interested in the sociotechnical impacts of applied data science.
Prior Contributors
Catherine Cramer was a writer and editor of DSCN, and also contributed long-form articles to the "From the Desk" series. She is the Assistant Director of the EarthCube Office at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD, and the Director and Co-Founder of the non-profit Woods Hole Institute. She works to create partnerships among research, industry, academia, and underserved communities around complex data and network sciences and workforce development.
From the Desk 📄
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