What do the founders of Pintrest, Seamless, and Twitter all have in common? They all started right here at New York University. If you can make it in New York, as Sinatra famously sung, you can make it anywhere. And the boom in successful startup businesses over the past few years has certainly proved this. … Continue reading The $300K NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge
Last Friday, IBM came to the Center for Data Science to chat with our students about some of the data science career opportunities that are available at IBM. With a significant presence in 18 industries across 170 countries, IBM is the world’s premier technology consultancy, offering insight into the research, manufacturing, communications, and marketing sectors. … Continue reading IBM Comes to CDS
The new semester has just begun, and with that comes a new batch of promising Master of Science in Data Science students. To celebrate our incoming class, we decided to talk with five of the incoming students, to hear about their backgrounds, their interests, and their goals for the future. We’ll be interviewing one student … Continue reading New Student Interviews: Julie Helmers
The new semester has just begun, and with that comes a new batch of promising Master of Science in Data Science students. To celebrate our incoming class, we decided to talk with five of the incoming students, to hear about their backgrounds, their interests, and their goals for the future. We’ll be interviewing one student … Continue reading New Student Interviews: Zhanna Zhanabekova
The new semester has just begun, and with that comes a new batch of promising Master of Science in Data Science students. To celebrate our incoming class, we decided to talk with five of the incoming students, to hear about their backgrounds, their interests, and their goals for the future. We’ll be interviewing one student … Continue reading New Student Interviews: Eduardo Fierro Farah
The new semester has just begun, and with that comes a new batch of promising Master of Science in Data Science students. To celebrate our incoming class, we decided to talk with five of the incoming students, to hear about their backgrounds, their interests, and their goals for the future. We’ll be interviewing one student … Continue reading New Student Interviews: Maya Bidanda
One of the most compelling reasons to enter into a Master of Science in Data Science program is the host of career opportunities available upon graduation. At the Center for Data Science, we pride ourselves on being able to give our students access to the plethora of data science opportunities that New York City has to … Continue reading PwC Comes to CDS
A few weeks ago, The New Yorker magazine published a story titled “Total Recall,” in which one of their correspondents, Patrick Radden Keefe, traveled to England to interview a team of “super-recognizers.” While most humans have spots of trouble putting names to faces, super-recognizers have an uncanny ability to recognize human faces. The city of … Continue reading How Effective are Neural Networks for Object Recognition?
If you want to avoid traffic in a city or congested area, there are applications such as Google Maps and Waze to help you get around. But what about avoiding noise and distracting sounds? The Citygram-Sound Project—a joint collaboration between NYU Steinhardt, NYU’s Center for Urban Studies and Progress, and CalArts—is trying to combat this … Continue reading How Can Data Collection Be Used to Map City Sounds?
We are thrilled to announce that Arthur Spirling, the Interim Deputy Director at the Center for Data Science, has been awarded a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled, “Computational and Historical Resources on Nations and Organizations for the Social Sciences (CHRONOS).” Spirling, along with colleagues and collaborators from Columbia University, … Continue reading CDS Interim Deputy Director Arthur Spirling Awarded Grant from National Science Foundation
