Harvard Data Science Initiative

🥂🎞️ The Harvard Data Science Review 5th Anniversary recordings from our two-day celebration focused on #datascience in #AI and #viticulture are now available on the HDSI YouTube Channel! ☝️ Day 1: AI and Data Science: Integrating Artificial and Human Ecosystems ✌️ Day 2: Vine to Mind: Decanting Wine's Future With Data Science + AI 🎥 Watch now: https://lnkd.in/e5FziPCH Amara Deis Xiao-Li MENG Rebecca McLeod

Meet the winners of the first-ever HDSI Agri Datathon!

Our latest issue (6.4, Fall 2024) is out and filled with lots of great content covering a wide range of topics including: the #2024Elections, #Causalinference, #DataScienceEducation, #AIandCreativity and #ReproducibleResearchStandards. Read the issue now starting with the insightful editorial by Editor-in-Chief Xiao-Li MENG Harvard Data Science Initiative The MIT Press https://lnkd.in/esuYPNhN

🎶✨ Introducing Project42! 🎨📊 What happens when data science, music, and art collide? You get Project42, a collective where creativity meets reproducibility. Inspired by the number 42—the ultimate random seed—we’re creating a community where art and science are shared openly. Project42 began with a few Harvard Data Science Initiative scholars jamming together. Now it’s grown to 10+ members, each contributing with music, video, or art. 🎼🎥 Our goal is to make this a lasting, inclusive project where everyone with passion can join. So what’s next? In 2025, we plan to host (at least) two events at Harvard Data Science Initiative. Picture it: after-work gatherings where interdisciplinary scholars give 5-min talks on their latest work, with live music & art filling the spaces between ideas. If you are around or you are just interested in taking part to this regardless of where you are located, reach out to us, the more the merrier!🧠🎶 Follow us on IG: https://lnkd.in/dxGg_vWZ Linda Delacombaz Gianluca Guidi Alessandro Zito Federica Spoto Davide Viviano Veronica Ballerini francesca dominici Rebecca McLeod Nicolò Fraccaroli James K. Giacomo De Nicola

🎙️New podcast! 🇺🇸 The upcoming U.S. presidential race arrives at a time when many Americans are grappling with questions about #poll accuracy and #data reliability. For this month's episode, HDSR is joined by journalists Leland Vittert and Colby Hall for an-in-depth look at how the media uses data to report and analyze U.S. presidential races past and present. 🎧 Listen here: https://lnkd.in/earjYNTT or wherever you get your podcasts. The MIT Press Harvard Data Science Initiative Liberty Vittert Capito Arianwyn Frank Gavin Yang Bell Riley #ElectionPolls #2024PresidentialRace #Election2024 #Voting #ElectionForecast #DataAnalysis

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🎉New Podcast! 🏈 To mark the start of the National Football League (NFL)'s regular season, we talk to Mike Lopez, NFL's Senior Director of Football Data and Analytics who helps us explore how #DataScience & #AI are used in professional football to make the sport more entertaining, competitive, and safe. How has the way data is used to enhance the game advanced? What is the most underutilized piece of data that could offer teams a significant advantage? How do teams balance human instinct with AI-driven analysis when making decisions in games? For aspiring sports analysts, what technical or soft skills and experiences are most important to develop? 🎧 Listen to our fascinating discussion as we delve into the intersection of #SportsAnalytics and #DataScience https://lnkd.in/earjYNTT Liberty Vittert Harvard Data Science Initiative The MIT Press

Join us on Zoom at 1:30pm Eastern on October 3 for an HDSI Industry Seminar with Maria Bowman of the USDA Economic Research Service! Maria is an Economist in the Conservation and Environment Branch of the Rural and Resource Economics Division at USDA’s Economic Research Service. She studies the economic and environmental impacts of conservation and soil health management in U.S. agriculture, and co-leads a USDA Inflation Reduction Act Greenhouse Gas Quantification Action Area charged with improving the spatial and temporal coverage of national conservation activity data. Register here: https://bit.ly/4egB4Oy

📣 📆 TOMORROW!📣 📆 Join us this Thursday, September 19, from 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm, for an HDSI Industry Seminar featuring Michael Curran, Director of Platform & Foundations Data Science at Instacart. "Experimentation at Scale in the Tech Industry: Lessons I Have Learned": This talk will revisit experimentation fundamentals and explain how experiments with millions (billions) of observations coupled with small effect sizes mandates rethinking basic experimental design and analysis. Curran will share real examples from industry and recap the challenges that were faced. 🥕 Register now! https://lnkd.in/eadFmPcN #HDSI #DataScience #IndustrySeminar #Instacart #Harvard

🚜🌾 Calling All Students and Experts: Join the HDSI Agri Datathon! 🌾🚜 Are you a college or graduate student passionate about data science and agriculture? Or an expert looking to mentor or judge the next generation of innovators? The HDSI Agri Datathon needs you! 📅 Key Dates: Registration Closes: September 27th In-person Kickoff at Harvard: October 4th Project Submission Deadline: October 6th, 11:59 PM Winners Announced: Week of October 21st 👥 Who Can Compete? Undergraduate and graduate students from any college or university with data science skills and curiosity about agriculture. As long as you can attend our in-person kickoff at Harvard, you are eligible! 📢 Learn More and Register Today: https://lnkd.in/efP5iyx6 #AgriDatathon #DataScience #Agriculture #FoodSecurity #Harvard 🌟 Share this and spread the word! 🌟