The Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) is delighted to introduce Bailey Flanigan, a 2024 Wojcicki Troper HDSI Postdoctoral Fellow. The HDSI Postdoctoral Fellows Program provides data science researchers with the opportunity to pursue their research goals in an intellectually diverse and vibrant community with ample mentorship. These independent researchers engage in collaborations with fellows and…
Dominici named to TIME100 Health list
Data scientist recognized for her contributions to improving air quality TIME has named Francesca Dominici, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Faculty Director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, to the inaugural 2024 TIME100 Health list in recognition for her groundbreaking contributions to global…
Ashley Villar’s Proposal on Time-domain Astrophysics Anomaly Detection Secures Funding from the Harvard Data Science Initiative
Ashley Villar, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University Faculty of Arts & Sciences, was recently awarded funding through the Harvard Data Science Initiative (HDSI) Faculty Special Projects Fund for her pioneering proposal focusing on anomaly detection in time-domain astrophysics. Starting in 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will lead a ten-year campaign to image…
Meet the 2023 HDSI Postdoctoral Fellows
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…
Parkes named dean of Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
HDSI Faculty Co-Director David C. Parkes, George F. Colony Professor of Computer Science at Harvard SEASA appointed deanship effective October 15, 2023….
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…
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…
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…
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…