By joining NASA on its newly announced missions, UC Riverside is hoping to learn how Venus went from pleasant, Earth-like planet to blistering wasteland. The twin missions mark the first time in more than 30 years the agency has ventured to Earth’s closest planetary neighbor. NASA also considered missions to Jupiter and Neptune, but ultimately...
The University of California last week shared the details of a proposed policy on COVID-19 vaccination as part of its engagement with its community as it joins the California State University in supporting immunizations as part of an expected return of students, faculty, academic appointees and staff to in-person instruction across the state this fall...
The UC Riverside graduate program in business analytics is a rigorous STEM program jointly offered by the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management and the Department of Statistics in the College of Agricultural and Natural Sciences. The program has three career tracks — finance analytics, marketing analytics, and operations analytics — and can be...
When you’re in a medical emergency, you don’t typically think of calling a statistician. However, the COVID-19 outbreak has shown just how necessary a clear understanding of data and modelling is to help prevent the spread of disease. One person understood this a long time ago. Were she alive today, Florence Nightingale would understand the...
Let’s say you’re doing research that requires millions of geotagged tweets. Or perhaps you’re a journalist who wants to map murders in Chicago from 2001 to the present. You need to find large spatio-temporal datasets — but where? While there are hundreds of publicly available datasets, locating them can take months of searching. When potential...
A new data science degree will increase the numbers of women and underrepresented groups in high-tech fields. The University of California, Riverside, has received a $400,000 gift from the Center for Advancing Women in Technology, or CAWIT, to support a new data science degree to increase the numbers of women and underrepresented groups in high-tech...
