Tag: Data
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Nation & World
Think of jailing debtors as Dickensian? Think again.
Harvard-led study of three states finds thousands are jailed each year for failure to pay court costs, often for misdemeanors.
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Humanizing technology
Public Interest Technology Lab brings together experts from across Harvard to pursue technologies that serve the interests of the public.
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Using data science for social good
In April, the Harvard College Data Analytics Group, a student-led nonprofit organization, created 17 COVID-19 response teams that partnered with 16 organizations and municipal governments to tackle elements of the COVID-19 crisis.
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One thing to change: Anecdotes aren’t data
Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, points to a number of instances where the use of anecdotes over data creates a false narrative.
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Nation & World
Beyond the cloud
Every day, more and more information is filed in less and less space. Even the cloud will eventually run out of space, can’t thwart all hackers, and gobbles up energy. Now, a new way to store information could stably house data for millions of years.
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Data analysis could be key to success
New course brings data to a different audience as its importance continues to grow in different directions.
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On the web, privacy in peril
Innocent victim or background contributor? Facebook now faces questions from authorities on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean after news reports in The Guardian and The New York Times this…
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Prospects for digital humanities
THATCamp forum allows practitioners of digital humanities to define their concerns, devise solutions for them.
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In the genes, but which ones?
A team of researchers, led Harvard Professor David I. Laibson and Christopher F. Chabris of Union College, has found that virtually all claims that intelligence is associated with specific genes are wrong.
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Dealing with data
A computer program developed by brothers David and Yakir Reshef, together with Professors Michael Mitzenmacher and Pardis Sabeti, enables researchers to scour massive data sets for meaningful relationships that might otherwise have been missed.
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Computer imaging that aids science
Miriah Myer, a postdoctoral fellow, is a computer scientist using technology to better model and clarify medical data.