The City Health Dashboard: Organizing Public Health Data

Although health information and demographic data is widely available , we still lack the tools to analyze, explore, and organize that data in a meaningful way. Such is why, earlier this year, the City Health Dashboard was launched. This remarkable resource is the first of its kind: the Dashboard standardizes and aggregates data on health … Continue reading The City Health Dashboard: Organizing Public Health Data

Creating A Multi-Genre Corpus for Natural Language Inference

Although natural language processing (NLP) has made major strides in the last few years, to what extent can an NLP algorithm understand human sentences beyond a superficial read? Although they can computationally identify, count, or regurgitate individual words, phrases, and sentences, can they capture the meaning behind the words that they are handling? These questions … Continue reading Creating A Multi-Genre Corpus for Natural Language Inference

Can deep learning models learn like the human brain?

At last Thursday’s text as data seminar, professor Hong Yu from the University of Massachusetts Medical School explained the effort that she, along with her fellow colleagues, have made to incorporate human intelligence and cognitive functions to improve deep learning through new models. For instance, “Building an Evaluation Scale Using Item Response Theory,” is one … Continue reading Can deep learning models learn like the human brain?

How Can Neural Networks Improve Breast Cancer Screening?

Although deep convolutional neural networks can perform image object recognition in natural images, this technology still remains inapplicable for the medical industry. Medical professionals require high resolution images to make fine details visible, and the ability to view the human body from multiple angles to draw up a complete diagnosis for their patients. Enter the … Continue reading How Can Neural Networks Improve Breast Cancer Screening?

Using Machine Learning To Characterize Singing Styles

Before written language was invented, different cultures used music to communicate with each other. Investigating how these cultures exchanged musical styles is a major research area in the field of comparative musicology, and its scholars are becoming increasingly reliant on data science and machine learning techniques to help answer their research questions. For example, in … Continue reading Using Machine Learning To Characterize Singing Styles

The Psychology of Conservatism and Liberalism

Political psychologists, true to their name, explore the intersection between psychology and political science. That’s precisely what John Jost, a Professor of Psychology and Politics, Co-Director of NYU’s Center for Social and Political Behavior, and affiliated faculty member at CDS investigates in his work. Earlier this year, Jost, along with Joanna Sterling, Chadly Stern, and … Continue reading The Psychology of Conservatism and Liberalism