NYU Center for Data Science

“How,” crooned British pop band the Bee Gees to their fans in the 1970s, “can you mend a broken heart?” Well, those working in the field of regenerative medicine may have an answer. Focus...

https://cds.nyu.edu/nyu-scientists-invent-new-protein-regenerative-medicine/

Although health information and demographic data is widely available , we still lack the tools to analyze, explore, and organize that data in a meaningful way. Such is why, earlier this year, the...

https://cds.nyu.edu/city-health-dashboard/

Although natural language processing (NLP) has made major strides in the last few years, to what extent can an NLP algorithm understand human sentences beyond a superficial read? Although they ca...

https://cds.nyu.edu/creating-multi-genre-corpus-natural-language-inference/

At last Thursday’s text as data seminar, professor Hong Yu from the University of Massachusetts Medical School explained the effort that she, along with her fellow colleagues, have made to inco...

https://cds.nyu.edu/machine-learning-intelligence/

Although deep convolutional neural networks can perform image object recognition in natural images, this technology still remains inapplicable for the medical industry. Medical professionals requ...

https://cds.nyu.edu/can-neural-networks-improve-breast-cancer-screening/

Before written language was invented, different cultures used music to communicate with each other. Investigating how these cultures exchanged musical styles is a major research area in the field...

https://cds.nyu.edu/using-machine-learning-characterize-singing-styles/

Political psychologists, true to their name, explore the intersection between psychology and political science. That’s precisely what John Jost, a Professor of Psychology and Politics, Co-Direc...

https://cds.nyu.edu/psychology-conservatism-liberalism/

  While Google Maps is a useful enough tool for directing you up and down Manhattan’s urban grid of avenues of streets on a daily basis, what about industries who want to examine the world on ...

https://cds.nyu.edu/descartes-labs-come-cds/

What can artificial intelligence learn from biological brains? At this Wednesday’s lunch seminar series at CDS, Professor Partha Mitra from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory explained how he ha...

https://cds.nyu.edu/can-machine-brains-learn-biological-ones/

We already know that the tone of media coverage influences people’s attitudes and opinions. But is that influence conditional? Amber Boydstun, an associate professor of political science at the...

https://cds.nyu.edu/tracking-tones-media-coverage/

Although financial agencies and financial instruments vary, they are underpinned by the same risk management methodology: estimate the worst-case hypotheticals to hedge against financial upheaval...

https://cds.nyu.edu/improving-stress-tests-financial-portfolios/

Why is “unbreakable” such a special word for linguists? Unbeknownst to the general public, the word is actually composed of three smaller units that linguists call morphemes. Referring to the...

https://cds.nyu.edu/creating-synthetic-languages/

There currently exist two main approaches to generating images using artificial intelligence: Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) and Variational Autoencoding (VAE). GAN pits two neural network...

https://cds.nyu.edu/astronomers-explore-uses-ai-generated-images-using-ai-generating-imagess/

Just last week, CDS Professor Kyunghyun Cho and an international group of his colleagues* released Nematus, an exciting toolkit for Neural Machine Translation (NMT). Funded by the European Union�...

https://cds.nyu.edu/say-hello-nematus-toolkit-neural-machine-translation/

As the data surrounding Automated Vehicles grows, safety improves but privacy concerns also arise. The majority of human-operated vehicle accidents occur due to human errors like drunk driving or...

https://cds.nyu.edu/can-use-data-make-self-driving-cars-safer/

While we know that data science is rapidly becoming a vital strategy in several academic fields, what role does it play in running our government? Last Wednesday, the CDS Lunch Research Seminar h...

https://cds.nyu.edu/future-state-can-use-big-data-develop-better-governance/

A group of professors and researchers at the Technical University of Berlin, the University of Vienna, and ETH Zurich have recently been working on understanding deep neural networks (computer sy...

https://cds.nyu.edu/math-data-seminar-optimal-approximation-sparse-deep-neural-networks/

Are robots taking over? Vasant Dhar, a data scientist and professor at CDS, focuses his research on the balance between automation and humans and has recently published his work in Harvard Busine...

https://cds.nyu.edu/using-robots-make-decision/

Last month, New York University hosted a #DataRescue event as part of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative’s (EDGI) effort to preserve environmental evidence. EDGI, which formed dir...

https://cds.nyu.edu/saving-climate-change-data/

Galaxies are gorgeous structures containing billions of stars. But they come at a formidable price: a super massive black hole. Invisible, mighty, and mysterious, black holes are space regions wh...

https://cds.nyu.edu/using-population-models-forastrophysics/

After the CDS Academy Awards last week, we caught up with some of our student winners to find out more about their work. Scooping up the prize for the project with the greatest social impact was ...

https://cds.nyu.edu/student-research-using-data-science-improve-national-security/

What makes Tumblr stand apart from other social media platforms lies in the unique way its users communicate with each other. Each user has their own highly customizable blog where they can post ...

https://cds.nyu.edu/big-data-big-questions-tumblrs-graph-based-topic-modeling-work/

What do Hollywood celebrities and CDS faculty and students have in common? Awards. Leaping from one success to the next, this month saw the election of our talented Founding Director, Yann LeCun,...

https://cds.nyu.edu/cds-faculty-students-sweep-awards/

It looks like NLP researchers may soon be joining philosophers like Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault to theorize about the relationship between power and language. Last Friday, the NLP & Text-...

https://cds.nyu.edu/big-data-big-questions-can-nlp-reveal-underlying-power-imbalances/

Last Friday, FactSet came to CDS to discuss exciting positions in machine learning and NLP for our students. Founded in 1978, FactSet creates software that tracks top global market trends to help...

https://cds.nyu.edu/factset-comes-cds/

Clear ideas, unclear search results. The rapid expansion of the web has made online search difficult and frustrating, particularly with search engine giants like Google and Bing. The primary issu...

https://cds.nyu.edu/can-improve-online-search/

Last Friday, eBay’s Talent Acquisition Team met with our students to discuss full-time job opportunities at their bustling New York office. Back in October, eBay’s Director of Software Develo...

https://cds.nyu.edu/ebay-flocks-cds/

A major reason why the United States has held such a special place on the world stage is due to our extraordinary belief in the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all. Our co...

https://cds.nyu.edu/united-states-diaspora-digital-maps-highlight-national-diversity/

When you text a friend saying ‘I’ll fall you later’, how does your iPhone know to correct ‘fall’ to ‘call’? Auto-correct owes its prowess to a field that continues to gain paramount...

https://cds.nyu.edu/learning-about-nlp/

A major reason why data science is often touted as a force for social good is due to its accessibility. Public data sets and open-source software has allowed both experts and citizens alike to ga...

https://cds.nyu.edu/performing-censorship-using-algorithms/

As we learned during our interview with Professors Afonso S. Bandeira, Joan Bruna, and Carlos Fernandez-Granda, CDS will host the new Math & Data Group seminars (MaD) this Spring. Today, we are p...

https://cds.nyu.edu/cds-welcomes-new-research-seminars/

As governments increasingly turn to data science to solve social, economic, and legal problems, citizens should be concerned with how ethical such implementations are. When governments use data s...

https://cds.nyu.edu/algorithmic-accountability-journalisms-embrace-data-science/

Congratulations to our Master’s candidates who graduated last semester: Pan Ding, Jacqueline Gutman, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Rama Krishna Raju Samantapudi, and Olivia Yang! We caught up with ...

https://cds.nyu.edu/masters-experience-interviews-winter-graduates/

Moderating offensive online comments has become an increasingly difficult and urgent challenge. But, Kevin Munger, a PhD student at NYU’s Department of Politics, is hoping to change that with d...

https://cds.nyu.edu/using-data-science-moderate-online-harrassment/

As we wait patiently for self-driving cars to become viable, self-sailing boats are already a reality. A Californian company, Saildrone, rents self-sailing boats to scientists, environmental grou...

https://cds.nyu.edu/using-self-driving-sailboats-collect-ocean-data/

Last Wednesday, CDS caught up with Professors Afonso S. Bandeira, Joan Bruna, and Carlos Fernandez-Granda to discuss two new developments that will be launching in 2017: our new Ph.D. program, an...

https://cds.nyu.edu/ph-d-data-science-math-data-group/

Earlier this month, we managed to catch Peter Norvig’s exciting webinar on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, organized by the Association for Computing Machinery. Before Norvig beco...

https://cds.nyu.edu/rise-machine-learning/

Can photography influence politics? At last Wednesday’s Data Science Lunch Seminar Series, Assistant Professor L. Jason Anastasopoulos from the University of Georgia explained how he is using p...

https://cds.nyu.edu/photography-data-analyzing-homestyle-photographs/

On November 30, the Center for Data Science hosted NYU’s first Natural Language Processing (NLP) Reception. Led by esteemed professors Sam Bowman and Kyunghyun Cho, and sponsored by the Moore S...

https://cds.nyu.edu/our-nlp-community/

When Fidel Castro passed away on November 25, how many people read his obituary? While the obituaries of political leaders may not be the most exciting texts to peruse, they are integral for rese...

https://cds.nyu.edu/data-death-analyzing-deaths-political-leaders/

With our MS Open House for prospective students coming up on December 14, one might be wondering: where exactly could this degree take you? During our exciting Alumni Student Networking event on ...

https://cds.nyu.edu/cds-alumni-go/

  Analyzing political texts has traditionally required political experts who possess a deep understanding of the source material. Yet, this method is slow and expensive. Can we produce political...

https://cds.nyu.edu/common-man-politics-crowdsourcing-political-data/

The noisy din of New York City has caused many sleepless nights, for visitors and longtime residents alike. According to the Environmental Health Perspectives journal, nine out of ten New Yorkers...

https://cds.nyu.edu/harnessing-new-york-citys-soundscape-data/

This Friday, Graham Capital Management (GCM) introduced our CDS students to the career opportunities available for them in financial investing. Established in 1994, GCM is a leading macro-oriente...

https://cds.nyu.edu/graham-capital-management-comes-cds/

Back in 2013, The Guardian proposed that our political speeches are declining in linguistic sophistication. Then, in 2015, Politico’s data analysts concluded that Donald Trump speaks at the le...

https://cds.nyu.edu/big-data-big-questions-can-data-measure-political-sophistication/

Commentators have made heavy weather of how social media has affected people’s consumption of news. Just recently, journalists have proposed that the circulation of fake news articles on Facebo...

https://cds.nyu.edu/social-media-impact-consume-news/

This is part two of our NYU Data Future Lab series. To read part one, please click here. For our CDS students who are interested computer vision, spatial technologies, and urban space, there are ...

https://cds.nyu.edu/future-nigh-nyu-data-future-lab-part-ii/

Just how much does China’s internet firewall affect what Chinese users inside and outside of the wall discuss on social media? CDS’ very own Bruno Goncalves, along with Northwestern Universi...

https://cds.nyu.edu/different-sides-firewall-using-data-science-compare-chinese-language-twitter-sina-weibo/

  What’s next for artificial intelligence? Step into NYU’s Data Future Lab and you will find the answer amongst five stellar startups that are poised to change the world. Last Friday, the ...

https://cds.nyu.edu/future-nigh-nyu-data-future-lab-part/

When working for large corporations, employees rarely step foot in offices other than their own. But last Friday, Nabeel Azar from Verisk Analytics introduced our CDS students to their Data Scien...

https://cds.nyu.edu/verisk-comes-cds/

Last Friday, Mohammad AlTantawy, the CTO and Co-founder of Agolo, came to show our CDS students what career opportunities are available at the world’s most advanced summarization software compa...

https://cds.nyu.edu/agolo-comes-cds/

Although machines can outperform humans in almost any skill set today, there is still one process that they have yet to master: translation. Several students learning a second or third language i...

https://cds.nyu.edu/can-use-neural-networks-multi-way-multilingual-translations/

Last Wednesday, Mustafa Anil Kocak from NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering came to CDS to explain how we can reduce algorithmic errors by instructing an algorithm not to make predictions under ...

https://cds.nyu.edu/big-data-big-questions-happens-refuse-guess/

Sunandan Chakraborty is a Moore-Sloan Postdoctoral Researcher at CDS and a visiting scholar at the Environmental Studies Department .  After graduating with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from NYU,...

https://cds.nyu.edu/faculty-interview-sunandan-chakraborty/

Audible’s Senior Vice President of Data Science, Haftan Eckholdt, visited CDS last Friday to discuss how data science plays a vital role in maximizing the Audible customer experience. Audible i...

https://cds.nyu.edu/audible-comes-cds-2/

Last Wednesday, eBay’s Director of Software Development and Merchandise, Giri Iyengar, came to the Center for Data Science to discuss data science career options in the e-commerce industry. Ini...

https://cds.nyu.edu/ebay-comes-to-cds/

The Center for Data Science’s own Vasant Dhar has said the problem with data science is no longer collecting data, but finding the right tools to analyze that data. Skytree, a machine learning...

https://cds.nyu.edu/skytree-data-science-hands-masses/

Originally developed as a text-mining tool, topic modeling has seen uses in fields such as genetics and bioinformatics. It is a popular approach to finding ideas within large text bodies that cou...

https://cds.nyu.edu/practical-algorithm-topic-modeling-provable-guarantees/

How close is humanity to creating AI? Machine learning’s remarkable progress in object and speech recognition, video games, and other areas has been broadly covered by news media, and it would ...

https://cds.nyu.edu/mean-machine-think-like-human/

On Wednesday, the Center for Data Science’s very own Moore-Sloan Fellow, Michael Gill, showcased his research on how war and conflict impact the economy. The US Department of Defense outsources...

https://cds.nyu.edu/big-data-big-questions-political-conflict-affect-economy/

On Friday, Vice President of Machine Learning and Data Solutions at American Express (and NYU alum!), Alexander Statnikov, introduced our students to data science career options in the financial ...

https://cds.nyu.edu/american-express-comes-cds/

What do the founders of Pintrest, Seamless, and Twitter all have in common? They all started right here at New York University. If you can make it in New York, as Sinatra famously sung, you can m...

https://cds.nyu.edu/300k-nyu-entrepreneurs-challenge/

Last Friday, IBM came to the Center for Data Science to chat with our students about some of the data science career opportunities that are available at IBM. With a significant presence in 18 ind...

https://cds.nyu.edu/ibm-comes-cds/

The new semester has just begun, and with that comes a new batch of promising Master of Science in Data Science students. To celebrate our incoming class, we decided to talk with five of the inco...

https://cds.nyu.edu/new-student-interviews/

The new semester has just begun, and with that comes a new batch of promising Master of Science in Data Science students. To celebrate our incoming class, we decided to talk with five of the inco...

https://cds.nyu.edu/new-students-interview-zhanna-zhanabekova/

The new semester has just begun, and with that comes a new batch of promising Master of Science in Data Science students. To celebrate our incoming class, we decided to talk with five of the inco...

https://cds.nyu.edu/student-interview-eduardo-farah/

The new semester has just begun, and with that comes a new batch of promising Master of Science in Data Science students. To celebrate our incoming class, we decided to talk with five of the inco...

https://cds.nyu.edu/new-student-interviews-maya-bindana/

One of the most compelling reasons to enter into a Master of Science in Data Science program is the host of career opportunities available upon graduation. At the Center for Data Science, we prid...

https://cds.nyu.edu/pwc-comes-cds/

A few weeks ago, The New Yorker magazine published a story titled “Total Recall,” in which one of their correspondents, Patrick Radden Keefe, traveled to England to interview a team of “sup...

https://cds.nyu.edu/effective-neural-networks-object-recognition/

If you want to avoid traffic in a city or congested area, there are applications such as Google Maps and Waze to help you get around. But what about avoiding noise and distracting sounds? The Cit...

https://cds.nyu.edu/can-data-collection-used-map-city-sounds/

We are thrilled to announce that Arthur Spirling, the Interim Deputy Director at the Center for Data Science, has been awarded a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project ...

https://cds.nyu.edu/cds-interim-deputy-director-arthur-spirling/

The Center for Data Science is proud to announce that we have relocated to the historic Forbes Building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan! To celebrate the change in location, we talked with Maria Lav...

https://cds.nyu.edu/welcome-new-cds-office-space/

Hurricane season is upon us, and for New Yorkers who remember Hurricane Sandy, this season’s La Nina weather system and warmer sea-surface temperatures are not contributing to a welcome forecas...

https://cds.nyu.edu/open-data-solution-hurricane-warnings/

One of the core tenants of data science is the idea of transparency, both in the sense that data collection methods should be open to scrutiny, and that the results of data collection should be s...

https://cds.nyu.edu/us-government-data-transparency/

From the proliferation of smartphones with a built-in camera, to the increasing use of security cameras in public spaces, we are all on camera, more than ever before. And with an increase in ima...

https://cds.nyu.edu/8194-2/

In May of this year, The United Kingdom’s Government Digital Service released a paper titled, the “Data Science Ethical Framework.”  Although it is not a legally binding document, the pape...

https://cds.nyu.edu/government-agencies-regulate-data-science/

Professor Afonso Bandeira is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.  This fall, he will be teaching a course at the Center for Data Science, tit...

https://cds.nyu.edu/interview-cds-instructor-afonso-bandiera/

America’s contemporary political scene is characterized by an open distrust of elected officials, with the common refrain, on both sides of the isle, being that politicians have forgotten thei...

https://cds.nyu.edu/can-twitter-track-politicians-affected-constituents/

While the proliferation of data science is most commonly associated with fields such as finance, marketing, and the technology sector, data science has become increasingly important in a variety ...

https://cds.nyu.edu/vasant-dhar-using-data-science-tackle-educational-problems/

As digital technologies become increasingly entrenched into our world, the conversation surrounding when and how to teach computer science is becoming increasingly important.  Should computer sc...

https://cds.nyu.edu/children-taught-computer-science/

The release of Pokémon Go—an augmented reality game that has been developed for IOS and Andriod devices— brought with it a rock slide of nostalgia. 20 years after the first Pokémon game was...

https://cds.nyu.edu/pokemon-go-collecting-data-users/

Historically, police departments have often been chastised for dragging their feet when it comes to releasing data regarding police officers. As a result, newspapers and public institutions have...

https://cds.nyu.edu/data-law-enforcement/

It is no secret to data scientists that humans and computers think differently.  While computers are highly adept at arithmetic, humans can hardly calculate the tip on a restaurant bill.  And w...

https://cds.nyu.edu/memory-neural-networks/

For a field with such profound potential to improve the world we live in, data science has had trouble making its way into the public consciousness. This might be because most people’s interact...

https://cds.nyu.edu/data-science-everyday-life-healthcare/

Within the world of data science, there is possibly no field that is as misunderstood as the field of artificial intelligence (AI).  Whether it’s Hollywood films depicting AI robots taking ove...

https://cds.nyu.edu/ai-now/

What is a data scientist?  The question is seemingly simple, and yet deceptively complex.  A data scientist obviously works with data, but in what capacity?  Is a data scientist more concerned...

https://cds.nyu.edu/what-does-a-data-scientist-do/

Last week, the Center for Data Science welcomed Kx Systems—a software company based in New York—into our office, where they gave two consecutive day-long workshops on their q programming la...

https://cds.nyu.edu/kx-systems-comes-nyu/

As data collection and data analysis have become entrenched in our daily lives, the conversations surrounding the ethical treatment and usage of data are becoming increasingly important.  Almost...

https://cds.nyu.edu/ethics-data-collection/

The financial markets—the stock exchange, bonds, commodities—are a historically high-risk, high-reward avenue towards making, or losing, money.  Besides working as a television weatherman, ...

https://cds.nyu.edu/money-machines-markets-vasant-dhar/

Sam Bowman is one of the leading researchers in the field of natural language processing (NLP), and recently joined NYU as an Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics, a joint position be...

https://cds.nyu.edu/interview-sam-bowman/

One of the most important conversations in the field of machine learning is the debate surrounding the use of predictive methods to influence or inform human decisions.  Broadly speaking, the fi...

https://cds.nyu.edu/human-decision-making-machine-learning-processes/

One of the struggles in the field of data science is striking the necessary balance between human decision making, and automated computer processing.  The field of machine learning—which looks...

https://cds.nyu.edu/unknown-unknowns-machine-learning/

Daniel Fernández is a new Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Data Science, and his research focuses on the ways in which data science can be used to help individuals with speech impediments....

https://cds.nyu.edu/post-doctoral-fellow-interview-daniel-fernandez/

With all of the advancements that are taking place in the field of data science, one aspect that can often be overlooked is the actual collection of data.  While machine learning, neural networ...

https://cds.nyu.edu/crowdsourcing-data-michael-laver/

Last April, two CDS students, Zewei Liu and Olivia Yang, along with two Stern Business School Students, Andrew Hamlet and Troy Manos, won the University of Iowa’s MBA Business Analytics Case Co...

https://cds.nyu.edu/cds-student-interview-zewei-liu-olivia-yang/

Dustin Duncan is an Affiliated Faculty member at the Center for Data Science, an Assistant Professor at NYU’s Department of Population Health, and the Principal Leader at the Spatial Epidemiolo...

https://cds.nyu.edu/faculty-interview-dustin-duncan/

As part of the Moore-Sloan Data Science Environment’s ongoing attempt to foster interdisciplinary research, they recently announced the NYU Data Science Seed Grant.  The grant is open to NY...

https://cds.nyu.edu/data-science-grant-opportunity/

At the Center for Data Science, our commitment to giving our students networking opportunities with the leading technology companies extends beyond our lunch seminars and round table career sessi...

https://cds.nyu.edu/cds-hosts-first-datathon/

One of the most compelling reasons to enter into a Master of Data Science program is the breadth of networking opportunities that help students begin their professional or academic careers after ...

https://cds.nyu.edu/spring-2016-career-recap/

On Thursday, April 21st at 12:30pm, Ben Schneiderman, Computer Science Professor at the University of Maryland, will give a talk on The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations...

https://cds.nyu.edu/ben-schneiderman-give-talk-new-abcs-research/