Nick Beauchamp is an Assistant Professor in Northeastern University’s department of Political Science. He recent spoke at the Center for Data Science’s Text as Data conference. What did you study in school? How did you get to what you study now? Like many data scientists, I took a somewhat winding path to arrive where … Continue reading Profile: Nick Beauchamp
Bruno Goncalves is a Fellow at NYU’s Center for Data Science, and a recent recipient of the CSS Junior Scientific Award. His interdisciplinary approach to social science combines data science with traditional research methods for a greater understanding of human behavior. What did you study in school? Originally, I was a physicist with … Continue reading Faculty Profiles: Bruno Goncalves
Chris Wiggins describes the practice of data science as the pain that you feel when you find yourself awash in data. For most of his career, Wiggins has worked in academia; he has spent the last decade studying molecular biology at Columbia University, where a data-driven approach has become integral to his research. Despite his … Continue reading The New York Times and Data Science
Currently on sabbatical from the Max Planck Institute, Bernhard Schölkopf is spending several months in New York at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. On May 8, 2013, Professor Schölkopf sat down with reporter M.L. Ball to discuss the field of machine learning, its relationship to large data sets, and the intimidation factor inherent in … Continue reading Interview with Bernhard Schölkopf, Director, Department of Empirical Inference at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany
Internationally regarded as a leading researcher in the field of machine learning, Bernhard Schölkopf was the featured speaker for this year’s Courant Lectures in April, giving two talks: “Statistical and Causal Learning” and “Inference of Cause and Effect.” Currently on sabbatical from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany, where he is Director … Continue reading Bernhard Schölkopf: Bringing His Knowledge of Machine Learning and Data Sets to the Courant Institute
The Initiative in Data Science and Statistics, recently launched by New York University and spearheaded by Gérard Ben Arous, Director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, actually had its origins last year within a working group of leaders throughout the university. The group was led by Yann LeCun, Courant Institute Silver Professor of Computer Science, Neural … Continue reading Initiative In Data Science And Statistics: A Collaborative Effort With Two Distinct Components
Director of the Computational Medicine Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA, and alumnus of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Studies, Computational Biologist Isidore Rigoutsos recently shared his thoughts on a current situation he finds both fascinating and confounding: the two contrasting ways of thinking concerning, on the one hand, historically-accepted bodies of knowledge, … Continue reading In The Field Of Computational Medicine, Isidore Rigoutsos Trusts The Data Rather Than The Books
David Holland, Courant Institute Mathematics Professor and past Director of Courant’s Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science (CAOS), recently returned from two months spent installing ice measurement instrumentation, observing melting ice flows and collecting data from the frozen fjords of Greenland and Antarctica in hopes that scientists, today and in generations to come, will be able … Continue reading By Studying Polar Ice Sheets, David Holland Seeks to Predict Rising Sea Levels
Having spent most of his professional career at the Courant Institute, as well as holding leadership positions within Courant and New York University, Courant Institute Silver Professor of Mathematics Sylvain Cappell, a topologist, is uniquely qualified to offer a long view of where NYU has been, and also where it is headed. Commenting on NYU’s … Continue reading Courant Institute’s Sylvain Cappell Sees Science, Math and Data Developing at Extraordinary Speed
New York University’s newly-launched Center for Data Science is offering a two-year Master’s of Science in Data Science program (MSDS), the first of its kind in the United States. The graduate program is accepting applications now. Applications will continue to be reviewed until the program is filled, with classes commencing in the fall. “There is … Continue reading Center for Data Science Taking Applications for Masters of Science in Data Science
