Data Science

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Morgan Ames

Assistant Professor of Practice
Alumni (MIMS 2006)

Science and technology studies; computer-supported cooperative work and social computing; education; anthropology; youth technocultures; ideology and inequity; critical data science

Daniel Aranki

Assistant Professor of Practice

Predictive medicine; artificial intelligence; machine learning; tele-health; information disclosure; privacy; security.

David Bamman

Associate Professor

Natural language processing, computational social science, machine learning, digital humanities

Coye Cheshire

Professor

Trust, social exchange, social psychology, and information exchange

John Chuang

Professor

Biosensory computing; climate informatics; information economics and policy

Aditya Parameswaran

Associate Professor (I School and Computer Science)

Data management, interactive or human-in-the-loop data analytics, information visualization, crowdsourcing, data science

Recent Publications

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Securing Your Data From Breaches Will Help Us Improve Healthcare

Aug 2, 2020

When you go to a new healthcare clinic in the United States, doctors and nurses pull up your patient record based on your name and birthdate. Sometimes it’s not your chart they pull up. This is not only a healthcare problem; it’s a data science problem.

Migration and Social Networks: New Insights from Novel Data

May 9, 2020

This Thing Called Fairness: Disciplinary Confusion Realizing a Value in Technology

Nov 14, 2019

Information-intensive innovation: the changing role of the private firm in the research ecosystem through the study of biosensed data

Aug 16, 2019

Sensing is Believing: What People Think Biosensors Can Reveal About Thoughts and Feelings

Jun 13, 2019

The strength of long-range ties in population-scale social networks

Dec 31, 2018

Don't forget people in the use of big data for development

Dec 30, 2018

Machine Learning for the Developing World using Mobile Communication Metadata

Dec 10, 2018

The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction

Feb 13, 2018

This essay explores the changing significance of gender in fiction, asking especially whether its prominence in characterization has varied from the end of the eighteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first. The authors found that while gender roles were becoming more flexible, the space actually allotted to (real, and fictional) women on the shelves of libraries was contracting sharply.

Imputing KCs with Representations of Problem Content and Context

May 8, 2017

Data Science news

Dean Jennifer Chayes Dedicated to Advancing Diversity in Computing

Jan 27, 2021

Summer and Fall 2020 MIDS and MICS Award Winners

Feb 3, 2021

Outstanding MICS and MIDS capstone projects, and distinguished teaching awards.

Data For Good Fellowship Recipient Wants to Empower Rural Healthcare Providers with AI

Jan 21, 2021

Mahdieh Taher (MIDS ’20) has been awarded the Jack Larson Data for Good Fellowship for her work as a data engineer dedicated to improving medical diagnoses in rural areas.

Blumenstock’s Research Brings Cash Aid to to Togo’s Poorest

Dec 11, 2020

Charity Worked with Josh Blumenstock to Identify Aid Recipients in Togo Using Mobile Phone Data

Dec 11, 2020

Jennifer Chayes at NeurIPS ’20: ML Community Must Work With Interdisciplinary Experts

Dec 14, 2020

Prof. Blumenstock’s Technology Brings Covid Aid to Togo

Dec 17, 2020

Pioneering NLP Research Examines Representation in Texas Textbooks

Oct 28, 2020

Ph.D. student Lucy Li Awarded Best Paper by the American Educational Research Association

Ph.D. Student Doris Lee Awarded 2020 Facebook Fellowship in Systems for Machine Learning

Sep 11, 2020

Lee aims to design systems that provide automated recommendations in visual data exploration and machine learning

David Bamman Wins National Endowment for Humanities Grant

Aug 13, 2020

David Bamman’s BookNLP project will receive funding from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) to expand its scope to include German, Japanese, Russian and Spanish languages.