Our Fall 2014 offering of the Data Science Incubator concluded on December 4th with final presentations by the participants in the new WRF Data Science Studio. These presentations, the first official event held in our new space, were attended by over 40 people.

Slides for the final presentations are available online, and the final reports are linked below.

• Andrew Becker, Astronomy — Kernel-based Moving Object Detection

• Ângela Katsuyama, Biology — Students’ Sleep and Academic Performance.

• Carlos A. Manzanares, Economics — Simulating Competition in the U.S. Airline Industry

• Emily Kalah Gade, Political Science — Analysis of .gov web archive data

• Matthew Denes, Finance — Innovation Evidence from Patents

• Sophie Clayton, Oceanography — Analysis of large-scale patterns in phytoplankton diversity

Thank you Andy, Ângela, Carlos, Emily, Matt, and Sophie for a great quarter! Thanks are due as well to Andrew Whitaker and Bill Howe for running Incubator projects, and to Brittany Fiore-Silfvast and Anissa Tanweer for their ethnographic insights!

Our next incubator offering will be in Spring quarter, 2015. Look for more information here on the blog, on the Incubator website, and on our mailing lists in early February.