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Tracking The Tones of Media Coverage

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...

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Constructing Machine Brains Using Neuroanatomy

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 has been...

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Descartes Labs come to CDS

By NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from Greenbelt, MD, USA (Landsat View: Las Vegas, Nevada) [CC BY 2.0] While Google Maps is a useful enough tool for directing you up and down Manhattan’s urban grid...

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The Psychology of Conservatism and Liberalism

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-Director of...

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Using Machine Learning To Characterize Singing Styles

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 of...

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How Can Neural Networks Improve Breast Cancer Screening?

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

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Can deep learning models learn like the human brain?

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 incorporate...

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Creating A Multi-Genre Corpus for Natural Language Inference

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 can...

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The City Health Dashboard: Organizing Public Health Data

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 City...

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NYU Scientists Invent New Protein for Regenerative Medicine

“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. Focused on...

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Verisk Comes To CDS

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 Science...

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The Future is Nigh: NYU Data Future Lab (Part I)

  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 Lab...

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On Different Sides of China’s Internet Firewall: Sina Weibo and Twitter

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 University...

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The Future is Nigh: NYU Data Future Lab (Part II)

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 career...

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Does Social Media Impact How We Consume News?

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 Facebook...

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Big Data, Big Questions: Can We Measure Political Sophistication?

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 level of a...

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Graham Capital Management comes to CDS

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-oriented...

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Harnessing New York City’s Soundscape 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...

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The Common Man in Politics: Crowd-sourcing Political Data

  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 data...

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Where do CDS Alumni go?

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...

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Data in Death: Analyzing The Deaths of Political Leaders

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...

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Our NLP Community

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 Sloan...

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Photography-As-Data: ‘Homestyle’ Political Photographs

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...

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The Rise of A.I. and Machine Learning

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 becoming the...

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Ph.D. in Data Science: The Math & Data Group

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, and...

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Using Self-Driving Sailboats to Collect Ocean Data

Launching saildrone in Dutch Harbor. AK ©Saildrone Inc. 2015 As we wait patiently for self-driving cars to become viable, self-sailing boats are already a reality. A Californian company, Saildrone,...

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Using Data Science to Moderate Online Harrassment

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 data...

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The Master’s Experience: Interviews with our Winter Graduates

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 them over...

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On Algorithmic Accountability

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 science...

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CDS Welcomes New Research Seminars!

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...

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Performing Censorship Using Algorithms

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 gather...

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Learning About NLP

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 importance among...

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The United States of Diaspora: Digital Maps Highlight National Diversity

Fischer, Eric. (2011) “North American detail map of Flickr and Twitter locations.”  A major reason why the United States has held such a special place on the world stage is due to our extraordinary...

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eBay comes to CDS

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 Development and...

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How Can We Improve Online Search?

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 issues are...

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FactSet comes to CDS

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...

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Big Data, Big Questions: Can NLP Reveal Power Imbalances?

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 &...

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CDS Faculty and Students Sweep Up Awards

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, to...

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Big Data, Big Questions: How Does Tumblr’s Graph-Based Topic Modeling Work?

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 and...

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Student Research: How Can Data Science Improve National Security?

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 Yiqiu...

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Using Population Models for…Astrophysics?

NASA, ESA, H. Teplitz and M. Rafelski (IPAC/Caltech), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and Z. Levay (STScI). (2014). “Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2014.” Galaxies are gorgeous...

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Saving Climate Change Data

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 directly...

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Using Robots To Make Decisions

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 Business...

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Math& Data Seminar: Optimal Approximation with Sparse Deep Neural Networks

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 systems...

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Future State: How Can We Use Big Data To Develop Better Governance?

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 heard...

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How Can We Use Data to Make Self-Driving Cars Safer?

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 road...

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Say Hello to Nematus, A New Toolkit for Neural Machine Translation

“Translation Latin Alphabet” by Jesse Burgheimer, Ladislav Faigl, David Levy,  Xiaomingyan is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Just last week, CDS Professor Kyunghyun Cho and an international group of his...

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Using AI To Generate Images

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

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Creating Synthetic Languages

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 smallest...

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Improving Stress Tests on Financial Portfolios

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 upheavals....

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