American Family Funding Initiative: Creating a competitive application

The American Family Funding Initiative is hosting a number of events designed to help applicants create competitive proposals, including office hours with representatives from American Family and DoIT Research Cyberinfrastructure.

Take your data science collaborations to the next level with RStudio Team

Researchers and data scientists across the UW-Madison campus are developing and sharing Covid-19 models that can inform responses to the pandemic. A new service offered through the UW-Madison Division of Information Technology (DoIT) Cyberinfrastructure Group, which is available to all UW-Madison researchers, is helping these scientists collaborate and share their work.

American Family Funding Initiative call for proposals

The American Family Funding Initiative offers grants of $75-150K to stimulate and support cutting-edge, highly innovative and groundbreaking research in the rapidly growing field of data science, including computing and artificial intelligence.

Register for the Data Science Research Bazaar

UW-Madison’s Data Science Hub is hosting its second annual Data Science Research Bazaar, focused on its theme of Data Science for the Social Good, virtually throughout February.

New information Master’s program prepares students for careers in tech and information

For the first time ever, the Information School (iSchool) at UW-Madison is accepting applications for a newly launched Master of Science Information degree.

Newly redesigned website serves the UW-Madison data science community

The data science community has a new place to explore research, academics, training and other opportunities at UW-Madison. The American Family Insurance Data Science Institute recently launched a fully updated version of the data science @ uw website that presents fresh content from partners across campus.

American Family supports second round of data science research grants at UW-Madison

The American Family Insurance Data Science Institute is honored to announce the results of the second round of the American Family Funding Initiative, a research competition for data science projects.

UW–Madison to continue fundamental data science research with Phase II award from NSF

The National Science Foundation awarded a five-year, $4.6 million grant to the UW–Madison Institute for the Foundations of Data Science for fundamental research in the rapidly growing field of data science.

Understanding how birds respond to extreme weather can inform conservation efforts

When it comes to climate change, University of Wisconsin­–Madison forest and wildlife ecology Professor Ben Zuckerberg says birds are the proverbial canary in the coal mine.

Yandell will speak on “Data Science in the Pandemics Age” at Forward Fest

Brian Yandell, David R. Anderson Interim Director of the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute, will talk about "Data Science in the Pandemics Age" at ForwardFest on Aug. 17, 6-7pm.