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What makes Tumblr stand apart from other social media platforms lies in the unique way its users communicate with each other. Each user has their own highly customizable blog where they can post and share content—like articles, images, GIFs, or videos—or re-post content published by another user. Sharing and re-posting content is not only key … Continue reading Big Data, Big Questions: How Does Tumblr’s Graph-Based Topic Modeling Work?

What do Hollywood celebrities and CDS faculty and students have in common? Awards. Leaping from one success to the next, this month saw the election of our talented Founding Director, Yann LeCun, to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his work in computer vision and artificial intelligence. Sam Bowman and Kyunghyun Cho also … Continue reading CDS Faculty and Students Sweep Up Awards

It looks like NLP researchers may soon be joining philosophers like Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault to theorize about the relationship between power and language. Last Friday, the NLP & Text-As-Data Seminar heard from Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University who is specializing in computational sociolinguistics. One of his research projects focuses on … Continue reading Big Data, Big Questions: Can NLP Reveal Power Imbalances?

Last Friday, FactSet came to CDS to discuss exciting positions in machine learning and NLP for our students. Founded in 1978, FactSet creates software that tracks top global market trends to help professionals in hedge funds and investment banks advise their clients. FactSet is a promising asset to the finance industry because its software addresses … Continue reading FactSet comes to CDS

Clear ideas, unclear search results. The rapid expansion of the web has made online search difficult and frustrating, particularly with search engine giants like Google and Bing. The primary issues are the unmanageable amount of search results, the unreliable methods of saving the results deemed worthwhile, and the nuances that come with searching just the … Continue reading How Can We Improve Online Search?

Last Friday, eBay’s Talent Acquisition Team met with our students to discuss full-time job opportunities at their bustling New York office. Back in October, eBay’s Director of Software Development and Merchandise, Giri Iyengar explained to our students how their skills are vital to serving customers on their e-commerce platform. Having already accepted applicants for their … Continue reading eBay comes to CDS

A major reason why the United States has held such a special place on the world stage is due to our extraordinary belief in the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all. Our constitutional commitment to freedom beats behind our national anthem, which renews its promise to be “the land of … Continue reading The United States of Diaspora: Digital Maps Highlight National Diversity

When you text a friend saying ‘I’ll fall you later’, how does your iPhone know to correct ‘fall’ to ‘call’? Auto-correct owes its prowess to a field that continues to gain paramount importance among computer scientists, and is an especially lively area of study at our very own Center for Data Science: Natural Language Processing … Continue reading Learning About NLP

A major reason why data science is often touted as a force for social good is due to its accessibility. Public data sets and open-source software has allowed both experts and citizens alike to gather knowledge and conduct research at a faster pace. But what happens when data is used to achieve oppress the public … Continue reading Performing Censorship Using Algorithms

As we learned during our interview with Professors Afonso S. Bandeira, Joan Bruna, and Carlos Fernandez-Granda, CDS will host the new Math & Data Group seminars (MaD) this Spring. Today, we are pleased to announce that we will also host the expanded ‘NLP and Text-As-Data’ speaker series at our swanky fifth avenue facilities. Initially focused … Continue reading CDS Welcomes New Research Seminars!