Join us in 2026
In 2026, BIDS will continue the Cultural Analytics series, co-hosted by the I School, the CRELS speaker series, and OSPO events -- plus more partner events to be announced.
May 21, 2026
OSPO Monthly Meetup: May (details tba)
Completed
January 22, 2026
The Wandering Officer: New Databases for Police Accountability
February 10, 2026
STRUDEL Contributor Event
February 13, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Discussion with Michaela Mahlberg
February 19, 2026
OSPO Monthly Meetup: Open science as a process, not a product
February 25-26, 2026
Roadmap Workshop for JupyterHub and Binder
March 5, 2026
OSPO Monthly Knowledge Exchange: Roadmap Workshop for JupyterHub and Binder Share Out
March 6, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Bob L. T. Sturm "I am Troubled"
Cultural Analytics series: Discussion with Bob L. T. Sturm
March 15-16, 2026
Spatial Data Science Summit
March 18, 2026
CRELS speaker series with Julien Migozzi: "Algorithms of Distinction: Class, Credit Scores, and Property in South Africa"
March 19, 2026
OSPO Monthly Meetup: Open source and open data powering multimodal models for the study of culture
March 17-20, 2026
Cultural Analytics series workshop week: "Multimodal Models for the Study of Culture"
March 17, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Peter Broadwell "Gesamtkunstvektoren: Perceptual Embeddings for the Performing Arts"
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with James Abello & Haoyang Zhang "Graph Cities and their Applications"
March 18, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Workshop with Lauren Tilton
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Taylor Arnold "Computational Approaches to Pacing and Style in Television Comedy"
March 19, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Noah Askin "The Social Foundations of Creative Influence"
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Peter Leonard "The Three Obstructions: Improvements in Analysis & Interface for Multimodal Retrieval"
March 20, 2026
Talk and discussion with Gaël Varoquaux: "Cementing a machine-learning ecosystem: scikit-learn and beyond"
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Miguel Escobar Varela "What Dance Scholars can Learn from Warehouse Surveillance: Emic Approaches to Temporal Action Segmentation"
Cultural Analytics Workshop Week: Conclusion & Reflections with Tim Tangherlini
March 31, 2026
JupyterHub Security Workshop
April 10, 2026
Cultural Analytics series: Talk with Kyle Booten "Writing With and Beyond AI: Fieldnotes from Computer-Mediated Poetry"
Cultural Analytics series: Discussion with Kyle Booten
April 13-15, 2026
Building Open Connected Scientific Data Products for the Cryosphere hackdays
April 16, 2026
OSPO Monthly Meetup: April
April 21, 2026
CRELS speaker series with Simone Zhang: "Scoring Justice: Risk Assessment Tools, Court Practices, and Fairness Perceptions"
April 22-23, 2026
UC Open Source Summit 2026
If you'd like to see BIDS events from 2025 and earlier, please visit the Past Events page here.
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