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INFO I426/516 Informatics in disasters and emergency response is an undergraduate/graduate elective designed for students interested in using technology and informatics skills in prevention of, mitigation of, response to and recovery from threats to safety, and emergency and disaster situations.

DS590 Data Science in Practice is a graduate course designed to help students gain critical, practical skills in applying data science to real world problems. Students will work in teams of 3-5 to tackle a real-world problem defined by a project sponsor. Project sponsors can be academics or industry practitioners. Students work with the project sponsor to understand the problem domain, identify where their data science skills can be applied, and to design, implement and test a solution.

I am currently developing a new undergraduate and graduate elective course called Digital Resilience. Digitial Resilience is about using technology in a way that is private, secure, robust and reliable even in adverse or threatening environments.

Data Science in Disasters and Emergency Response is a short workshop-format introduction to using data science in emergency and disaster response that is written for first responders and emergency managers.

Info I590 Data and Society is a graduate course that introduces technically-trained students to the social, political, and ethical aspects of data science work. It is designed to create reflective practitioners who are able to think critically about how collecting, aggregating, and analyzing data are social processes, and processes that affect people.

I571 Introducing Cheminformatics: Navigating the world of chemical data is a graduate class that covers basic techniques of managing and analyzing chemical data on computers

A radically new way to think about technology use and reuse that promotes resilience and privacy

This article talks about what I believe is the single most important question for data science to tackle in the next ten years.

This piece originally written for The Conversation talks about the opportunities for using data science to help our society become more resilient to climate change

What if we could bring all the knowledge, data, insight, and prior decision-making of drug discovery together and use it to accelerate the discovery of new drugs? What if we could encode the millions of known relationships between potential new (or old) drugs, protein targets, genomics, biological processes, and disease mechanisms, and then use all this together to get new insights into disease and treatments?

A new report from FEMA shows efforts to encourage preparedness have failed, yet they are needed now more than ever. How can data science help?

There are now a plethora of apps and services that mean that if you do have internet service, you can to an amazing degree replicate the functions of an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) on the smartphone in your pocket. In this article we will describe a set of apps that will enable you to achieve the primary functions of the EOC: meeting & sharing space, phone and radio communications, situational awareness, and access to plans, documents and maps.