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HDSR's Xiao-Li Meng on Biased Vaccine Surveys

December 9, 2021

When Delphi-Facebook and the U.S. Census Bureau provided estimates of COVID-19 vaccine uptake last spring, their weekly reports drew on responses from as many as 250,000 people.

The data sets boasted statistically tiny margins of error, raising confidence that the numbers were correct. But when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported actual vaccination rates, the two polls were off — by a lot. By the end of May, the Delphi-Facebook study had overestimated vaccine uptake by 17 percentage points — 70 percent versus 53 percent, according to the CDC — and the Census Bureau’s...

Artificial Intelligence's Promise and Peril

October 14, 2021

As algorithms analyze mammograms and smarphones capture lived experiences, researchers are debating the use of AI in public health.

Trust in Science Round 2 Funding Awarded

July 28, 2021

Congratulations to Matthew Baum, Elena Glassman, Hanspeter Pfister, and Minttu Rönn, recipients of recent awards from the HDSI Trust in Science Fund. You can read more about their projects, and our previous awards, here.

Can machine learning bring more diversity to STEM?

July 15, 2021

Postdoctoral researcher Haewon Jeong will use AI, thanks to funds from the Harvard Data Science Initiative, to study implicit bias in middle school students.

2021 Public Service in Data Science Graduate Fellows

June 29, 2021

This year's HDSI Public Service in Data Science Fellowship was awarded to three Harvard graduate students: Manana Hakobyan (SEAS), Mukund Poddar(HSPH), and Karun Rajesh (HSPH).... Read more about 2021 Public Service in Data Science Graduate Fellows

Announcing the 2021 HDSI Postdoctoral Fellows

June 10, 2021

The HDSI is proud to announce the selection of our fifth cohort of postdoctoral fellows. The newest fellows are Joel Martinez (Department of Psychology) and Agni Orfanoudaki (Harvard Kennedy School). Joel Martinez will be our third Wojcicki Troper HDSI Postdoctoral Fellow.
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HDSI Competitive Research Fund Helps Finance Battery Breakthrough

May 13, 2021

Harvard researchers design long-lasting, stable, solid-state lithium battery to fix 40-year problem. Read more in the Harvard Gazette and the corresponding research ...

2021 HDSI Postdoctoral Research Fund Awards

May 12, 2021

The Harvard Data Science Initiative would like to congratulate Falco J. Bargagli Stoffi (Biostatistics), Tugba Bozcaga (Middle East Inititiative), James Hay (Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics),...

Harvard University and Elsevier sign Master Data Use Agreement

May 5, 2021

We are delighted to announce that Harvard University and Elsevier have signed a Master Data Use Agreement (DUA) that will facilitate access by Harvard researchers to a large multidisciplinary and multimodal collection of Elsevier owned or managed datasets, including full-text article content, citation data, and curated data from different domains, including pharmacology and engineering. Under the terms of the Agreement, Harvard researchers will have the opportunity to access these datasets for research purposes at no cost.

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New Video: Understanding What it Takes to Make Science Trustworthy

April 28, 2021

The recently launched Trust in Science Project, a collaboration between the Harvard Data Science Initiative and the Program on Science, Technology & Society, brings together faculty across the University to explore what it takes to make science trustworthy, from trusting scientific claims, to the processes of science, to the ways that science guides decision making.... Read more about New Video: Understanding What it Takes to Make Science Trustworthy