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Strongly recommend reading wu post!

Congrats Natacha Crooks !

Mingle with data scientists from industry and academia and explore the architecture of CockroachDB’s novel transaction model at tomorrow’s Chicago Data Night! Featuring Becca Taft, Senior Engineering Manager at CockroachDB datascience.uchicago.edu/events/chicago… Chidata

We're proud to share that Faculty Co-Director for the Data Ecology Research Initiative, Raul Castro Fernandez, was awarded a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship! Congratulations Raul Castro Fernandez! Learn more - datascience.uchicago.edu/news/six-uchic…

Cambridge Mobile Telematics, a billion+ dollar company to make roads safer, was founded based on NSF-funded research, by Hari Balakrishnan and Sam Madden. It is one of many such examples.

Many federal-funded success stories in the data systems universe that I’m aware of, including Google (2+ T) - from Stanford - and Databricks (60B) from UC Berkeley EECS. Any of these would pay for the costs (eg all of NSF: 10B in total per year) many times over. Cost cutting in

Arjun Ravi Kannan, Director of Data Science Research at Discover Financial Services, shares how his team’s research on the use of responsible AI has been utilized by Discover in consumer lending at Chicago Data Night! Join us on Wednesday, March 12th!

This is a great opportunity for PhD students in data management to pitch their ideas and get feedback. There are still a couple of months before the submission. Take a look!

Keep a lookout for the data ecology research initiative newsletter coming soon! The goal of data ecology is to study data flows and design interventions to control how data impacts our world Subscribe here - mailchi.mp/f86011cc9e9d/d…

This is coming up soon. You can already register if interested!

Dr. Margo Seltzer (Margo Seltzer), Canada 150 Research Chair in Computer Systems and the Cheriton Family chair in Computer Science at University of British Columbia, explores the Science and Meta-Science of Data Science on Friday, April 11th as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series!

The raise of machine-generated content will create a market pull for provenance solutions. While good in principle, in practice, strong identity solutions + the current data ecosystem smells like trouble. Here's the link if you want to read more: raulcastrofernandez.com/content-id/

Chicago Data Night is in one week! Join our community of data science practitioners, academics, and aficionados and explore ‘A Data-Driven Chicago’ with Eve Jennings, Director of Enterprise Strategy, Governance, and Analytics for Cook County Government datascience.uchicago.edu/events/chicago…

I’m looking forward to Moshe Vardi ‘s talk next week!

If you are a PhD student working on data-related topics, consider this opportunity to publicize your work and brainstorm with the community at VLDB vldb.org/2025/?call-for… The PhD workshop is a great opportunity for students; deadline is coming up (May 22nd).

Online Publics and Unpermissioned Research Join us for an exciting presentation by Data Ecology Invited Speaker, Ethan Zuckerman (Ethan Zuckerman), associate professor of public policy, information and communication at UMass Amherst on Friday, May 23rd! datascience.uchicago.edu/events/ethan-z…

📢Sign up to attend and present a poster/spotlight talk at the Summer Workshop on Collaborative Learning and Data Sharing! 🌟 Hear from speakers with experience spanning ML, theory, databases, law, policy, and more, including Yiling Chen, Raul Castro Fernandez, Niva Elkin-Koren,

Looking forward to this!

Thank you for joining us at today's Data Ecology Invited Speaker session, featuring Ethan Zuckerman (Ethan Zuckerman), associate professor of public policy, information and communication at UMass Amherst!

Pneuma is a RAG-like system for tabular data. Next week, we are presenting the project at SIGMOD in Berlin. Until then, here's a 4-minute blog post with some of the key ideas and next steps for the project: raulcastrofernandez.com/pneuma-sigmod2…