As governments increasingly turn to data science to solve social, economic, and legal problems, citizens should be concerned with how ethical such implementations are. When governments use data science and machine learning models to establish policies, who ensures that such models are accurate? Journalism is one of the few watchdogs over those in power. Today, … Continue reading On Algorithmic Accountability
Congratulations to our Master’s candidates who graduated last semester: Pan Ding, Jacqueline Gutman, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Rama Krishna Raju Samantapudi, and Olivia Yang! We caught up with them over the holidays to find out how their time at NYU has been, and where they’ll be going next. When reflecting on their experience with CDS, our graduates found that … Continue reading The Master’s Experience: Interviews with our Winter Graduates
Moderating offensive online comments has become an increasingly difficult and urgent challenge. But, Kevin Munger, a PhD student at NYU’s Department of Politics, is hoping to change that with data science. In his intriguing paper, “Tweetment Effects on the Tweeted: Experimentally Reducing Racist Harassment,” Munger demonstrates how his new comment moderation method, which uses ‘bot’ … Continue reading Using Data Science to Moderate Online Harrassment
As we wait patiently for self-driving cars to become viable, self-sailing boats are already a reality. A Californian company, Saildrone, rents self-sailing boats to scientists, environmental groups, commercial fishermen, and other organizations seeking to collect ocean data affordably and efficiently. Collecting ocean data is typically an expensive and time-consuming practice, and relies on large crews … Continue reading Using Self-Driving Sailboats to Collect Ocean Data
Last Wednesday, CDS caught up with Professors Afonso S. Bandeira, Joan Bruna, and Carlos Fernandez-Granda to discuss two new developments that will be launching in 2017: our new Ph.D. program, and their Math & Data Group. NYU’s Ph.D. in Data Science was created to address emerging research problems related to data science that are continually … Continue reading Ph.D. in Data Science: The Math & Data Group
Earlier this month, we managed to catch Peter Norvig’s exciting webinar on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, organized by the Association for Computing Machinery. Before Norvig becoming the Director of Research at Google, he led Google’s core search algorithms group, and NASA Ames’ Computational Sciences Division. One of the first questions Norvig addressed was the … Continue reading The Rise of A.I. and Machine Learning
Can photography influence politics? At last Wednesday’s Data Science Lunch Seminar Series, Assistant Professor L. Jason Anastasopoulos from the University of Georgia explained how he is using photography-as-data to measure photography’s role in building trust between politicians and their constituents. Take former president Lyndon B. Johnson, for example. Although many regard Johnson as a civil … Continue reading Photography-As-Data: ‘Homestyle’ Political Photographs
On November 30, the Center for Data Science hosted NYU’s first Natural Language Processing (NLP) Reception. Led by esteemed professors Sam Bowman and Kyunghyun Cho, and sponsored by the Moore Sloan Data Science partnership and CDS, researchers working with text-as-data came to network with like-minded scholars, present their projects, and exchange ideas at the reception. … Continue reading Our NLP Community
When Fidel Castro passed away on November 25, how many people read his obituary? While the obituaries of political leaders may not be the most exciting texts to peruse, they are integral for researchers at NYU who are exploring how death affects politics. Ralph Grishman, Professor of Computer Science at New York University’s Courant Institution, … Continue reading Data in Death: Analyzing The Deaths of Political Leaders
With our MS Open House for prospective students coming up on December 14, one might be wondering: where exactly could this degree take you? During our exciting Alumni Student Networking event on November 4, our alumni gathered with current CDS students to share how they found success in several industries like finance, media, and technology … Continue reading Where do CDS Alumni go?
