Today the Harvard Data Science Initiative is launching a Special RFP for Trust in Science and COVID-19.

The goal of the Special COVID-19 Trust in Science RFP is to enable faculty across Harvard to study issues related to trust in science, broadly construed, in the context of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The HDSI welcomes data-science related proposals from all disciplines that seek to explore issues such as: the credibility of data and data models, the spread of information and misinformation, issues related to communication of scientific findings in a pandemic, data-driven indicators of consensus around scientific findings and recommendations, uptake of recommendations in different communities and national contexts, and the effect and impact of open data on public trust. These are examples only and applicants are encouraged to think broadly.... Read more about Trust in Science and COVID-19 Special RFP

This years HDSI Public Service in Data Science Fellowship was awarded to Iris Braunstein, a graduate student at the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Iris will be working on patient education and data donation portal at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Congratulations Iris!

The latest issue of HDSR (@TheHDSR on Twitter) is out and it’s a must read. As Editor-in-Chief, Xiao-Li Meng writes in his editorial (Information and Uncertainty: Two Sides of the Same Coin), issue 2:2 contains an “extremely rich and diverse set of articles that help to deepen our thinking and broaden our minds with respect to the increasingly perplexing world of variation.”  The authors address a wide...

Each year the Harvard Data Science Initiative Competitive Research Fund provides targeted seed and bridge funding to Harvard faculty who propose novel methods, innovations, or solutions to data science challenges. Since 2017 the HDSI has provided over $1 million in funding across the University.

This year the HDSI awarded funds to projects by Melissa Dell of Economics, Xin Li of Materials Science, ...