New York University’s (NYU) Center for Data Science (CDS) is joining forces with Nvidia in an effort to improve deep learning applications and algorithms for large-scale GPU-accelerated systems. For full article, please see here: NYU & Nvidia. Continue reading NYU & Nvidia Team Up for Multi-GPU Cluster-led Deep Learning Research
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has deployed a website known as HDX, short for the Humanitarian Data Exchange, to help provide key information to relief workers in Nepal. HDX creates a platform for international organizations to collaborate and share data. Initially used by aid workers to fight the Ebola pandemic in … Continue reading Using Data to Help Nepal Aid Workers
Bloomberg Philanthropies, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s philanthropic initiative, will fund the creation of the What Works Cities Initiative to help cities take advantage of data to influence policymaking. Bloomberg Philanthropies will grant 100 cities with between 100,000 and one million residents a total of $42 million to better collect, analyze, share, and apply data forimproved decision-making. … Continue reading Bloomberg to give $42 million to help cities do more with data
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has partnered with Amazon Web Services, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and the Open Cloud Consortium, a cloud computing infrastructure nonprofit, to help deliver more of the agency’s data to the public. NOAA, which produces 20 terabytes of data per day, created the partnership to provide the public and private sector with more access … Continue reading Tech titans ready their clouds for NOAA weather data
Some of the members from Facebook’s Data Science Team visited the Center of Data Science in March. The Team included Ali Cramer, who is responsible for Data Science Team’s recruitment, as well as two practitioners in Data Science, Hyan Park and Anurag Jain. They came there to discuss the roles of Data Engineers and Data … Continue reading Facebook Shares Data Science Career Insights with CDS
Do you want to work in the field of Cognitive Computing and don’t know which company to look for? Digital Reasoning can be one of the best options for you. Digital Reasoning recently visited NYU Center for Data Science and explained the need for data scientists in the modern world of Cognitive Computing. The information … Continue reading Digital Reasoning discusses Cognitive Computing
Cognizant’s Principal Analyst Visits CDS Tom Jirele, Principal at Cognizant Analytics Division visited the Center of Data Science (CDS) NYU in February and discussed Cognizant’s Data Analytics initiatives. Cognizant Technology Solutions is an American multinational corporation that provides custom information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services. This information session was one of many such … Continue reading Cognizant’s Principal Analyst Visits CDS
Currently the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in Harvard University’s Department of Government, Arthur Spirling is a political scientist specializing in political methodology. In addition, he is affiliated with Harvard’s Institute of Quantitative Social Science and is Director of its Program on Text Research. Professor Spirling has been honored with Harvard University’s Everett … Continue reading Arthur Spirling To Join NYU This Fall As Joint Faculty in Center for Data Science and Department of Politics
… Below, a conversation with Mr. LeCun: Q. What is the significance of artificial intelligence? A. A.I. is how we will make sense of all of the information that will be out there in the digital world. A lot of interaction with each other and with the digital world will come from what you could call “digital … Continue reading Yann LeCun Discusses Digital Companions and Artificial Intelligence (and Emotions)
… Along with the glitter and popularity, visualization has attracted something else: popular criticism. It’s happening at a small scale; we don’t yet see infographics reviews in the New York Times Arts section. Nonetheless, when a striking visualization comes out, it’s not unusual to see commentary and controversy on the web, moving from blogs to … Continue reading Design and Redesign in Data Visualization
