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I'm Ava Hu, a graduating second year in the UC Berkeley School of Journalism. I recently completed my year-long fellowship at DSE and I'm excited to share what I've worked on while on the team. For my spring semester project at DSE, I built a data visualization workflow to compare wildfire reality with media coverage across the United States between 2020 to 2024. My goal was to examine whether news attention aligns with where wildfires actually occur, and to identify states that may be over-covered or under-covered relative to their wildfire activity. Methods To begin the project, I researched...

UC Berkeley faculty and key benefactors are celebrating the near-completion on the Barbara and Gerson Bakar Gateway building, the new home of the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS).

In collaboration with the Secretariat of the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol (MLF), today DSE announced publication of Kigali Sim in the Journal of Open Source Software. The milestone marks a new chapter for the free, open-source modeling tool that helps policymakers worldwide assess strategies to reduce emissions from hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are some of the most potent greenhouse gases, under the Montreal Protocol’s Kigali Amendment. The paper is co-authored by DSE and MLF. “This publication validates Kigali Sim’s technical foundation and makes it...