The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) is offering Generative AI: Wisdom and Warnings from Harvard Data Science Review, a one-week online intensive course taught by members of the HDSR boards and grounded in materials from HDSR publications. The course uses the AI‑based learning platform developed, trained, and pedagogically supported by Next Gen Learning (NGL). The…
Insights from the 2nd Annual Vine to Mind Symposium
This June, the second Vine to Mind Symposium convened in Lausanne, Switzerland, co-hosted by the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) and EHL Hospitality Business School. Launched in 2024, this series uses the wine industry as a lens to examine how data and AI operate in environments shaped by cultural, environmental, and regulatory complexity. The 2025…
Newly Funded: Two Faculty Special Projects
The Harvard Data Science Initiative is pleased to announce support for two new faculty research projects that address pressing challenges in political science and policy evaluation. Measuring Partisan Gerrymandering in State Legislatures Kosuke Imai, Professor of Government and of Statistics, seeks to develop new computational methods to quantify the extent of partisan gerrymandering in state…