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Sam Pottinger
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Data scientist / visualization designer at UC Berkeley Center for Data Science and Environment. Intersection of ML, UX, SWE, game design, and natural science. Views my own. Gleap.org. Teaching https://interactivedatascience.courses @ UC Berkeley. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈
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👏DSE postdoc @mayazomer.bsky.social published new research in the @jxbotany.bsky.social! It explores how #MediterraneanShrubs resprout to recover after #disturbance and their resilience to global change: bit.ly/4mAwH5p

cc @cideinvestiga.bsky.social ‪‪@bmoreira.bsky.social @jgpausas.bsky.social
Maya holding resprouted plants while conducting fieldwork in Spain
August 26, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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This week the United Nations will negotiate a global treaty on #PlasticPollution. DSE's findings in @science.org revealed that by 2050, key policies could:

♻️ Reduce mismanaged plastic waste by up to 91%
🌞 Cut associated greenhouse gasses by 1/3

dse.berkeley.edu/programs/end... #EndPlasticPollution
End Plastic Pollution | The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at Berkeley
The ProblemGlobal plastics pollution is an urgent and growing concern that is exacerbating the climate crisis, creating threats to endangered species and at-risk ecosystems, putting human health at ri...
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August 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Check out this excellent @grist.org story featuring DSE's @sampottinger.com! Sam discusses our team's latest #OpenSource tool & research on opportunities and challenges for US corn #farmers and insurance companies: grist.org/food-and-agr... #AgPolicy #FoodSecurity
As temperatures rise, the US Corn Belt could see insurance claims soar
Crop insurance is a lifeline for farmers. But research shows it's not ready for climate change.
grist.org
May 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Incredibly proud to have been part of this team. After 1.5 years of insufferable badgering my coworkers about corn - we made it! Neural network monte carlo simulations explore the future of crop insurance in the US Corn Belt.
schmidtdse.bsky.social Schmidt DSE at UC Berkeley @schmidtdse.bsky.social · Apr 25
🎉Published today! Our study w/ @uarkansas.bsky.social identifies ways to improve financial security for US #farmers and crop insurance companies: dse.berkeley.edu/New-Ag-Polic...

Explore our findings in our #AI #OpenSource tool 🌽 ag-adaptation-study.pub #AgPolicy #FoodSecurity

📸aquaArts studio
image of hands picking corn in a field
April 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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🎉 🌎 🪐 I'm thrilled to announce GeoJupyter, an effort to imagine and build rewarding new user experiences for working with geospatial data in JupyterLab!

🤗 I hope to see you in an upcoming community meeting or in our Zulip chat (see the post for links)!

geojupyter.org/blog/2025010...
Introducing GeoJupyter – GeoJupyter
We believe that geospatial data analysis and exploration should be free, open source, and accessible for everyone!
geojupyter.org
January 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Getting examples ready to teach my upcoming interactive data science / data visualization course (interactivedatascience.courses). Can’t wait to see you soon Berkeley! #creativeCoding
January 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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📢ICYMI: DSE's new research on pathways to end global plastic pollution was published in @science.org!

Explore our cutting-edge model & interactive data visualization depicting what the planet's future could look like without plastic pollution: dse.berkeley.edu/news/critica...

#EndPlasticPollution
Image of ocean waves washing up on a shore covered in plastic
December 11, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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💥 Check it out!

Our research on modeling policy for UN Plastic Treaty featured in a few notable news articles.

👉The Hill: thehill.com/policy/energ...
👉Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
👉Newsweek: www.newsweek.com/plastic-trea...

📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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California scientists unveil policy blueprint for stopping global plastic pileup in its tracks
The uniform adoption of just four waste management policies around the world could eliminate more than 90 percent of the planet’s plastic waste and nearly a third of associated carbon emissions by …
thehill.com
November 21, 2024 at 2:27 AM
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Congrats to the team on the publication in Science today. 🎉 Honored to be co-authors with you and good luck at the upcoming UN negotiations as you carry our hope forward for a healthier and more sustainable future. #science #climate #plastics - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Pathways to reduce global plastic waste mismanagement and greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
Plastic production and plastic pollution negatively affect our environment, environmental justice, and climate change. Using detailed global and regional plastics datasets coupled with socio-economic ...
www.science.org
November 14, 2024 at 7:16 PM
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Moody Tuesday… #pixelart
Dark clouds gather over mountains. In the foreground some tulips and a windmill.
November 6, 2024 at 1:34 AM
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Happy Monday … sending some calm as you start your week. #pixelart
Picture of a beach with soft waves. A bird and some dolphins are visible in the distance.
November 4, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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Happy Sunday #pixelart
Fog covered mountain range with tree and well in the foreground.
November 3, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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In the middle of papers so there hasn’t been any new viz for a while but here’s my dog at the beach. #pixelart #art
Little white dog at a beach with hills and whales in distance. Calm waves washing up on shore.
October 29, 2024 at 12:08 AM
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Thanks ESPM / UC Berkeley! Had a lot of fun at today’s talk on 4 perspectives & frameworks in data visualization. Slides & recoding posted. If you are in the UC Berkeley community, I have other workshop opportunities and a full course in the spring. See interactivedatascience.courses for details!
Global Plastics Tool
Interactive data science courses / workshops for UC Berkeley: interactive data visualization, simulation, science.
interactivedatascience.courses
September 26, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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It works on mobile!
September 17, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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Just added Monte Carlo to the simulation tab of global-plastics-tool.org! Do quantitative policy experiments in your browser!
Global Plastics Tool
Interactive open source tool for estimating impacts of plastics policies using machine learning / artificial intelligence, serving as a resource in data-driven policy.
global-plastics-tool.org
September 5, 2024 at 2:36 PM
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Welcome Brazil! 🇧🇷
August 31, 2024 at 2:06 AM
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React on best practices load balanced edge-service architecture VS static html over ftp
Olympic shooter doing a fancy backwards leaning pose, wearing futuristic anime locking gear Yusuf Dikec dressed in slacks and a t-shirt with one hand in his pocket and a pistol in the other
August 2, 2024 at 11:38 PM
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Post a dog!
White dog looking at a biscuit on a counter while it rains in the background.
March 24, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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#pixelart for when you have ceramics that need to go places
White plane with blue stripes. A pilot sits in front with pots in the back. A wind sock is seen in the background in front of a hill.
February 8, 2024 at 1:29 AM
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Witch reading a book in moonlight with a black cat in the background.
January 26, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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Pixel art for the recent rain in SF …
Dog looking at a large bone in a glass container on top of a counter. In the background there is a tree sitting in the rain.
December 23, 2023 at 11:35 PM
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Good night blue sky. Hope I got the colors ok… I’m color blind so try my best. I didn’t check too many of these afterwards.
Witch reading a book late at night with a black cat in the background.
December 1, 2023 at 6:18 AM
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High five! More pixel art side quest.
A man with brown skin kneeling to touch his hand to a small white dog’s paw. The dog stands on their hind legs. The two are in a mountainous area with the sky visible in the background.
November 29, 2023 at 5:58 AM
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Wish we had animated gifs
Frame from a gif of a white dog running
November 27, 2023 at 4:54 AM