The Harvard Data Science Initiative is pleased to announce the appointment of Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School, as Faculty Lead of the HDSI’s Trust in Science project.  Professor Jasanoff is a pioneer in the field of Science and Technology Studies and brings to her role decades of scholarship examining the role of science in society.  She is the author of more than 130 articles or book chapters and is editor or author of more than 15 books on related topics.... Read more about Sheila Jasanoff announced as Trust in Science Faculty Lead

The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) has received a generous $2 million gift from Susan Wojcicki AB ’90 and Dennis Troper to support the Harvard Data Science Initiative Postdoctoral Fellows program.

“The HDSI Postdoctoral Fellows are critical members of our data science ecosystem,” says David Parkes, George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and HDSI Faculty Co-Director. “They bring an important interdisciplinary lens to challenges...

Curtailing the census enumeration period will destroy the quality of the data for a decade. With bad data, statistical analyses are useless, predictions are pointless. Bad data also threatens to cripple the development of data science, as algorithms trained on bad data will necessarily fail, obscuring information about the quality of the algorithms essential for improving the field. #DontRushtheCensus....