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David Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Methods in computer vision have reached a level of maturity that we can now develop computational instruments to measure a wide range of phenomena in film -- which actors are present in frame, the poses they have with respect to each other, the boundaries between shots -- which opens the door to...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
In this project, we'll be exploring the techniques that fiction uses to evoke a sense of suspense in readers and to represent suspense experienced by its characters, and measure the degree to which computational models are able to capture that degree of uncertainty in what is going to unfold in...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDavid Bamman - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This URAP position is a placeholder for mentorship of a project of your design. If you are an advanced student in CS, data science, or another discipline with a strong computational background and have a topic of interest in the space of cultural analytics or computational social science, feel free...
Engineering, Design & Technologies Arts & Humanities Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
At the Global Opportunity Lab (gol.berkeley.edu), we view the world’s most pressing policy challenges as opportunities to develop transformative policy solutions. Harnessing state-of-the-art data science, computation, and analytic tools, we generate insights and innovations that promote prosperity and expand opportunity across the globe. Our lab is currently...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Over the past decade, the rapid proliferation of mobile phones, satellites, and other digital sensors has created tremendous opportunities to measure human behavior. These data also provide the foundation for the growing interdisciplinary field of computational social science. Non-traditional “big” data hold unique potential in developing and conflict-affected...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The Data-Intensive Development Lab at UC Berkeley (didl.berkeley.edu) is providing data science support to the governments of several Low and Middle Income Countries, as well as humanitarian organizations like GiveDirectly, who are doing their best to effectively respond to the evolving humanitarian crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceJoshua Blumenstock - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Sustainable sand mining is one of the most pressing ecological challenges currently facing the planet. After water, sand is the world’s most valuable natural resource – over 50 billion tons of construction-grade sand and gravel were mined globally from rivers and beaches in 2021, accounting for 85% of all mineral...
Social Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceDiag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
According to the internet (and ChatGPT), it is unlawful to whistle for a lost canary before 7 AM in Berkeley. Are you skeptical of this claim? In which case, you would probably want to look up canary laws in Berkeley. Unfortunately, you cannot easily do this. If you could, you...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesDiag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project examines how institutions shape behavior not only through incentives, but through responsibility, timing, and attention—and how individuals and algorithms adapt to those institutional environments. Across a set of empirical and experimental papers, we study situations where people are placed into short-run institutional “states” (e.g., waiting for...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesDiag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
This project investigates how cultural factors influence individual motivation, focusing on a field experiment conducted in Kenya. By examining how local cultural values, beliefs, and social norms impact motivation, the study aims to provide deeper insights into the relationship between culture and economic behaviors. The research assistant will support the...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social SciencesDiag Davenport - Professor, Information, School of
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
According to the internet (and ChatGPT), it is unlawful to whistle for a lost canary before 7 AM in Berkeley. Are you skeptical of this claim? In which case, you would probably want to look up canary laws in Berkeley. Unfortunately, you cannot easily do this. If you could, you...
Education, Cognition & Psychology Social Sciences