Tag: Data

  • 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.

    3 minutes
    Person holds bars of jail cell.
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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.

    4 minutes
    Illustration of person using computer.
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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.

    4 minutes
    Karen Chan and Jerry Huang.
  • Nation & World

    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.

    3 minutes
    Pinker in a hallway
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    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.

    5 minutes
    Brian Cafferty works in the lab.
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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.

    4 minutes
    David Kane
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    Mining Facebook data for science

    An organization co-created by Harvard scientists is set to release a massive trove of Facebook data, strictly for research purposes.

    7 minutes
    Rows of office workers working on computers with data streaming.
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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…

    11 minutes
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    Prospects for digital humanities

    THATCamp forum allows practitioners of digital humanities to define their concerns, devise solutions for them.

    4 minutes
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    Crunching data in the campaign cave

    During an appearance on campus, Michelangelo D’Agostino explained how he worked to mine fundraising data, helping President Barack Obama win re-election.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    4 minutes
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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.

    5 minutes
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    Data may not compute

    The Dataverse Network Project, spearheaded by Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, provides archival storage for research projects whose records are on outmoded technology formats.

    6 minutes
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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.

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