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Berkeley
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Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) Launch
The December 2013 launch of Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) — with Peter Norvig arguing that job automation would require everyone to become a data scientist. A snapshot of academic data science institutionalization at the moment the discipline was coalescing.
ISchool 296A: Data Science Algorithms (Berkeley Spring 2012)
UC Berkeley's iSchool 296A course on Data Science Algorithms from Spring 2012 — one of the early university data science courses before the field had a standard curriculum. Represents Berkeley's role in formalizing data science education.
Who's Training the Next Generation of Data Scientists?
CIO.com coverage of who was training the next generation of data scientists in late 2013 — pointing to Berkeley's data science program and Zipfian Academy as the two leading sources. Ryan saved this while attending Zipfian, literally one of the people being trained.
Data Cleaning: Problems and Current Approaches (Berkeley/UNECE)
Joe Hellerstein's Berkeley paper on data cleaning for UNECE — a systematic treatment of the data quality problem from a database research perspective. The academic foundation for what practitioners know as the most time-consuming part of data science work.
Welcome to Berkeley: Where Hadoop Isn't Nearly Fast Enough
GigaOM's April 2013 profile of UC Berkeley's AMPLab making the case that Hadoop is too slow for interactive and iterative workloads — the academic origin story of Apache Spark, Shark (early Spark SQL), and Mesos. A snapshot of the moment Spark was about to go mainstream.
Five Questions: Brian Harvey, CS Education Innovator
Daily Cal interview with Brian Harvey on CS education innovation — covering Snap! (the visual programming language he built), the transition away from SICP in CS61A, and his philosophy on teaching programming to beginners. A ground-level view of Berkeley's CS curriculum debates.
Why SICP Matters — Brian Harvey
Brian Harvey's essay defending SICP as essential CS education — arguing against replacing it with Python-based intro courses. A principled case for teaching programming through ideas rather than syntax, written as Berkeley debated retiring CS61A's SICP curriculum.
Algorithms — Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, Vazirani
The free PDF of 'Algorithms' by Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, and Vazirani — Berkeley's undergraduate algorithms textbook. Unusual for a CS textbook in being readable, mathematically rigorous, and freely available from the authors.
Occupy the Farm: Urban Agriculture Protest at UC Berkeley
Occupy the Farm was a 2012 movement that seized a 10-acre UC-Berkeley-owned farm in Albany, California — planting crops and demanding the land be used for urban agriculture rather than developed. A convergence of Occupy movement tactics with urban food justice politics.
UC Berkeley student stabbed, March 2009
A 2009 news item about a UC Berkeley student stabbed and hospitalized — an ephemeral college-era bookmark of a local news story, saved from a tweet repost.
Dalai Lama at UC Berkeley, 2009
A Twitpic from 2009 showing UC Berkeley students camping overnight for tickets to see the Dalai Lama speak on campus. An ephemeral bookmark from the early Twitter/Twitpic era.
Death-defying longboard run down Berkeley's hills
A video of a death-defying longboard run down one of Berkeley's steepest hills — the kind of thing that exists only because of the UC Berkeley campus topography and college-aged risk tolerance.