November 20, 2021

OpenSidewalks Collaboration with King County Metro and MV Transportation Wins METRO Innovative Solutions Award

CommonPaths is a new application that collects and integrates granular data about sidewalk and pathway conditions that influence pedestrian mobility.

Tags: Transportation
August 20, 2021

UW Team Launches Center for Responsibility in AI Systems & Experiences

The RAISE group studies transparency, fairness, accountability, and trustworthiness in AI systems.

Tags: Data responsibility
April 18, 2021

Applying the FIDES Data Equity Framework to Pandemic Data Practices

The socio-legal-technical data sharing and management system FIDES helps to surface, negotiate, and mitigate risks due to inequity.

Tags: Data responsibility
March 23, 2021

Op-ed Proposes Measures to Mitigate Bias in the Use of A.I. for Hiring

A New York Times article provides recommendations to strengthen the regulation of technology vendors in a new bill.

Tags: Data responsibility
February 13, 2021

U.S. DOT Awards $11.45M to UW Transportation Data Equity Initiative

The project to develop transportation technology for people with mobility needs is led by Anat Caspi and Mark Hallenbeck

Tags: Transportation
November 10, 2020

Accessible Pedestrian Routing Tools Expand to Three Washington Cities

Dr. Anat Caspi leads an effort to establish consistent, detailed standards for tracking data about pedestrian paths and their connectivity

Tags: Transportation
October 28, 2020

Manaswi Saha, Lead Graduate Student for Project Sidewalk, Wins Google Fellowship

UW PhD student Manaswi Saha was one of 53 students around the world to receive a Google fellowship for her work in human computer interaction

Tags: Transportation
October 07, 2020

Urban@UW Publishes Annual Report

Urban@UW released an annual letter detailing activities on homelessness, gentrification, sustainability and more

Tags: Urban data
April 01, 2020

Researchers from UM, UW, NYU Hold Responsible Data Workshop

Lead investigators from three universities held the first workshop on Frameworks for Integrative Data Systems (FIDES) and Foundations of Responsible Data Science (FORDS)

Tags: Responsible data management
October 10, 2019

NSF Awards $2 Million for Data Equity Research

The NSF has awarded $2 million to three universities to study systems that enable research on sensitive data while preventing misuse and misinterpretation.

Tags: Responsible data management
June 26, 2019

NSF Awards $4 Million to West Big Data Innovation Hub, Doubling Prior Funds

The National Science Foundation has issued a second round of funding for the regional Big Data Innovation Hubs to support cross-sector partnerships that enhance the application of data science to societal and scientific challenges.

Tags: Responsible data management Neighborhood change
May 29, 2019

Capuchin Wins Best Paper Award at ACM's SIGMOD Conference

Urbanalytics Director Bill Howe and researchers Luke Rodriguez, Babak Salimi and Dan Suciu won the best paper award at SIGMOD for Capuchin - Causal Database Repair for Algorithmic Fairness

Tags: Responsible data management
May 15, 2019

Washington State Legislature Passes Landlord-Tenant Reforms Supported by CUAC Research

The Washington State legislature has passed eviction reform legislation as part of a series of amendments to landlord-tenant law, renters’ rights and affordable housing development.

Tags: Housing
May 01, 2019

Professor Michael Kearns to Speak at the Ben Taskar Memorial Distinguished Lecture

Professor Michael Kearns will present "The Ethical Algorithm" as the featured speaker of this year's Ben Taskar Memorial Distinguished Lecture.

Tags: Responsible data management
January 20, 2019

Research Studies Examine Bike Share Access and Helmet Use in Seattle

Research of dock-less bike share usage in Seattle shows modest geographic disparity in bike availability, and infrequent helmet usage

Tags: Transportation
October 16, 2018

Data Science Team Examines Equitable Access to Dock-less Bikes in Seattle

An examination of Seattle bike share data sheds light on service distribution across neighborhoods and demographic groups

Tags: Transportation
July 26, 2018

EZLearn Paper Presented at AI Conference in Sweden

Urbanalytics Director Bill Howe presented a paper discussing an auxiliary natural language processing system developed with co-authors Maxim Grechkin and Hoifung Poon

Tags: Responsible data management
June 13, 2018

Uyi Stewart Presents on Data Science and Social Impact in Africa

Uyi Stewart, Director of Global Development Strategy, Data and Analytics at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, presented a talk on data science and social impact.

Tags: Social impact
May 31, 2018

Ranking Facts Tool Highlighted by Freedom to Tinker

The article "Refining the Concept of a Nutritional Label for Data and Models" describes a tool providing visual widgets for uploaded data sets.

Tags: Responsible data management
January 17, 2018

UW eScience Institute Calls for Data Science for Social Good Applications and Proposals

The UW eScience Institute, in collaboration with the Cascadia Urban Analytics Cooperative, is excited to announce the fourth offering of the Data Science for Social Good summer program.

Tags: Social impact
January 12, 2018

Researchers Receive Five-Year Grant to Study Homelessness and Education

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.2 million BIGDATA grant to Drexel University, in collaboration with the University of Washington, University of Michigan and University of Massachusetts Amherst to research and develop responsible data science methods targeting the early stages of the data life cycle.

Tags: Housing Education
January 04, 2018

NSF Awards Responsible Data Science Grant for Collaborative Research

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.2 million BIGDATA grant to Drexel University, in collaboration with the University of Washington, University of Michigan and University of Massachusetts Amherst to research and develop responsible data science methods targeting the early stages of the data life cycle.

Tags: Responsible data management
October 11, 2017

Washington and New Mexico Legislators Announce Smart Cities Bill

On October 2, State Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (D-WA), and Congressman Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico (D-NM) proposed the Smart Cities and Communities Act of 2017.

Tags: Policy Urban data