Bobra BIDS profile (web)

Citation

Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). “An open approach to data science at the State of California with Monica Bobra.” Event report, after Nov. 20, 2025. https://bids.berkeley.edu/node/390. Read 2026-10-29.

Bottom line

• Monica Bobra is Principal Data Scientist at the California Office of Data and Innovation (ODI). She runs its Data Science Accelerator with state departments.
• She works in the open: ODI “provides standards for agencies to open their data and software”.

Key claims

• ODI “was created in 2022 under the State, providing data science services to other departments”.
• Bobra was a Research Scientist at Stanford University, on the science team of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
• She said: “there is a driver morally to be transparent with data.”
• State staff who want data science methods “are often disconnected from one another”.

Evidence and method

A report of a fireside chat with Jarrod Millman of the Berkeley Open Source Program Office.

Limits

An event report, not a staff page.