A reflection on the 2025 HDSI Winter Workshop By Erin Kiesewetter On the morning of Friday, March 7, I sat at the kitchen table with my three roommates, discussing our co-op assignments for the day. One would be transcribing transcripts for a political journalism discussion; another would be placing orders for inventory; and another would…
Dominici on AI and Climate in Harvard Medicine
“This balance of harnessing the good and mitigating the bad of AI is really important for us to embody at Harvard and in medicine when we’re dealing with human lives,” Francesca Dominici, Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative. Harvard Medicine Director Francesca Dominici was recently featured in an article about the intersection of AI…
How to spot a gerrymandered district? Compare it to fair ones.
Excerpted from the Harvard Gazette. Kosuke Imai is a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Data Science Initiative and a member of the HDSI’s Causal Inference Working Group. Read the original article here. New waves of statisticians, including a team at Harvard, have developed tools they think can help police the longstanding problem of gerrymandering of…
Black History Month + Data Science
February 2022 February is Black History Month! This month is a time for the education and celebration of Black American contributions that have helped shape our nation and its history. Take time to learn about the work accomplished by Black practitioners in data science, analytics, and AI, and view our updated list (revised from February…