COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT ARCHIVE

–Cal State LA and City of Los Angeles Collaborate on Summer Scholar Programs– This summer, the City of Los Angeles Data Team worked with Community Partners and California State University Los Angeles (Cal State LA) College of Natural and Social Sciences to continue their efforts to promote big data literacy among local college students and underserved communities. The community-driven activities were a continuation of a National Science Foundation-funded three-year project co

Staff Writer Kimberly Mann Bruch The West Big Data Innovation Hub is excited to welcome Kimberly Mann Bruch as our inaugural staff writer. Bruch has worked on academic communication and distance learning projects for more than two decades, ranging from her experience with National Science Foundation and NASA programs at UC San Diego to her earlier years with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and Southwestern College in southern California. Her immediate role will foc

Thursday Aug 17 at 12pm PT / 3pm ET Join the call: meet.google.com/ojw-jwqm-fxe or dial: +1 361 360 8463PIN: 2764# . Backup if the Google Hangout reaches capacity: 510-925-0403 uberconference.com/westhub Special guests including Alicia Johnson, Resilience & Recovery Manager, San Francisco Emergency Management and West Hub Steering Committee Member Stephen Dennis, Director, Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) Data Analytics Engine Google Cloud Public D

July 14  #DataSciStories Workshop and Training co-hosted with AAAS and the South Hub    Washington DC Aug 23-25  JupyterCon – stay tuned for information about Transportation Data Challenge tweetups and more Sept 18   Proposals for NSF Spoke Solicitation due to NSF: more info on our website Accelerating progress towards addressing societal grand challenges relevant to the regional and national priority areas defined by the BD Hubs (see our thematic and cross-cutting areas on o

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