Dr. Blumenstock will be presenting "Probabilistic Inference of Unknown Locations: Exploiting Collective Behavior when Individual Data is Scarce," a paper co-authored with DataLab students Ram Chokkalingham, Vijay Gaikwad, and Sashwat Kondepudi, at the ACM Conference on Computing for Development (ACM-DEV) in San Jose on December 6.

Dr. Blumenstock will be presenting recent research at the forum on "Big Data in Action for Development" at the World Bank on October 22.  He will also be presenting work at the University of Maryland iSchool on October 21 and the Northeastern Universities Development Conference on November 1.

Are you a talented linux sysadmin interested in building and maintaining a high-performance compute cluster? Apply Here!  Current students interested in this position should contact joshblum@uw.edu for information.

Dr. Blumenstock will be presenting two papers at the "Data Science for Social Good" and "Learning about Emergencies from Social Information" workshops at KDD in August (20th ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).

Dr. Blumenstock will be presenting at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting in Boston on May 3

The iSchool DataLab, in cooperation with the eScience Institute and CSE Interactive Data Lab, is excited to announce the launch of the Data Science Seminar, a new university-wide effort that brings together thought-leading speakers and researchers across campus to discuss topics related to data analysis, visualization and applications to domain sciences.

The UW Information School, Department of Economics and Evans School of Public Affairs are launching a new research seminar, the Joint Seminar in Development Economics (JSDE).  This seminar series will provide a regular forum for interaction among the growing community of quantitative social scientists at UW working on issues related to international development.

Joshua Blumenstock will give the Development Engineering seminar at UC Berkeley on April 3

Dr. Blumenstock, Michael Callen, and Tarek Ghani will be presenting "Violence and Precautionary Savings: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Afghanistan" at the Pacific Development Conference

Dr. Blumenstock has received a $200,000 Innovate Award from the Development Impact Lab

Dr. Spiro and coauthors' new article "Warning Tweets: Serial Transmission of Warning Message During a Disaster Event.", which will be published in the new issue of Information, Communication & Society, is now available online. 

Dr. Blumenstock presented new results on technology and economic development at ACM-DEV and at ICTD in Cape Town, Germany

UW receives part of $37.8 million grant to support interdisciplinary, data-intensive research.

We are currently hiring a full- or part-time data scientist / software engineer  [apply here!]

DataLab PI Joshua Blumenstock awarded Google Research Award for research on networks in Afghanistan