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…
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,…
Harvard Data Science Initiative Announces the AWS Impact Computing Project at the HDSI
New alliance between Harvard Data Science Initiative and Amazon Web Services set to transform how faculty use data to solve the world’s biggest problems…
Harvard and Elsevier are using data science to improve gender equality in academia
Colleagues from Harvard, Elsevier and the NSF are developing data science projects to address the challenges faced by women in academia….