We are delighted to introduce this year’s Harvard Data Science Initiative Postdoctoral Fellows! Our fellows support postdoctoral scholars with interests in advancing the field of data science. Fellows are independent investigators who pursue their own research in collaboration with Harvard faculty. Read more about the HDSI Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Melody Y. Huang “I am currently…
Q&A with Liz Grennan + Alex Singla
Reflecting on the Spring 2023 Data Leadership Special Series with McKinsey & Company experts Today’s data-built world requires upfront commitments from organizations to be responsible stewards of the data they collect and use. As we stretch the boundaries of what we can achieve through data, we cannot overlook the related ethical implications. Data breaches, privacy…
Harvard Graduate Transforms High School Math Curriculum
Skew The Script, a nonprofit organization, provides free, socially-relevant math + statistics lessons to high school teachers across the country Before receiving his master’s degree in data science from Harvard University in 2021, Dashiell (Dash) Young-Saver (A.B. ’16, Harvard University) taught AP Statistics at a Title I school on the southside of San Antonio. The…
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…
Discussing GIS with the HDSI Faculty Co-Directors
A geographic information system (GIS) is a spatial computer system that analyzes and maps data by displaying data related to positions on the Earth’s surface. GIS integrates location data with descriptive information and can show a variety of types of data on one map, such as streets, buildings, and vegetation. By connecting seemingly unrelated data,…
HDSI Annual Conference 2022 | November 15 + 16
Looking back at two days of data science discovery and learning, brought to you by the Harvard Data Science Initiative Dear 2022 conference attendees and speakers, This year, we were delighted to host the first HDSI Annual Conference since 2019. We are grateful that you were able to join us for these two days dedicated…
HDSI Sponsors First Harvard Data + Society Summer Book Club
This past summer, the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) sponsored Harvard’s first “Data and Society Summer Book Club.” The Book Club was organized by Dr. Kelly McConville, senior lecturer in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University, to create a space for Harvard affiliates to connect regularly and discuss ideas related to data science and…
HDSI Publishes First Annual Report
Read the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) Annual Report 2021–2022 to learn about the milestones we accomplished in this past academic year and the impact we have made on the Harvard Community and beyond since our launch in 2017. Read the 2021-2022 HDSI Annual Report…
Former HDSI Postdoctoral Fellow Becomes VP Data Science at Delfina
Dr. Isabel Fulcher, 2019 Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) Postdoctoral Fellow, completed her fellowship this past month and is now beginning her next role as the Vice President of Data Science at Delfina, a pregnancy care startup dedicated to solving the maternal health crisis in the United States. The Delfina data science team works to…
HDSI Faculty Affiliate, Gabriel Kreindler, was awarded a $5,000 grant for his research project
The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) Faculty Special Projects Fund annually allocates a total of $50,000 to support one-time data science opportunities throughout the year. In June 2021, Harvard Assistant Professor of Economics and HDSI Faculty Affiliate, Gabriel Kreindler, was awarded a $5,000 grant for his research project, “A Toolkit for Precise Geographic Data on…
The 2022 Summer Program for Undergraduates in Data Science (SPUDS) Participants
The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) is proud to announce the 2022 participants of the Summer Program for Undergraduates in Data Science (SPUDS): Co-sponsored by Harvard College and the HDSI, the Summer Program for Undergraduates in Data Science is a ten-week program designed to provide a formative and substantive data science research experience while promoting…
The Summer 2022 HDSI Public Service Data Science Graduate Fellows
Learn more about The HDSI Public Service Data Science Graduate Fellowship The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) congratulates and introduces Harvard Master’s students Esther Brown and Yi-Ting Tsai as the Summer 2022 HDSI Public Service Data Science Graduate Fellows. During this internship, Brown and Tsai will gain experience applying responsible data science to address social…