Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility
Teaching Responsible Data Science through Cybersecurity Analytics
Guest post by Dr. S. Jay Yang, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) This Success Story is a report on the results of one of the awards in the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2021 Seed Fund program. There were three primary objectives for this project: 1) To compile cybersecurity datasets […]
Improving Data Integrity Awareness in HPC Datasets using Sparsity Profiles
Guest post by Dr. Seung Woo Son, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Lowell This Success Story is a report on the results of one of the awards in the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2021 Seed Fund program. As scientists conduct analyses that rely on large-scale simulations to achieve breakthroughs […]
All Aboard!: Making AI Education Accessible
Guest post by Dr. Julia Stoyanovich, New York University This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2021 Seed Fund program. As artificial intelligence (AI) takes on a significant role in mediating our social lives, a democratic discourse around how this technology […]
January 2023 NEBDHub Inaugural Student Research Symposium
Written by: Femi Johnson A recording of this event is available at the Northeast Big Data Hub’s YouTube channel. On January 27, 2023, the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub (NEBDHub) held its 2023 Inaugural Student Research Symposium. This event highlighted the student-led research that was completed by undergraduate- and graduate-level […]
The Covid Information Commons & Columbia University Libraries – using translation & transcription to increase accessibility to NSF-funded research
by Lauren Close, Lylybell Teran, and Esther Jackson, with editorial support from Florence Hudson, Macy Moujabber, Isabella Graham-Martinez, and Jeremiah Mercurio With thanks to Lara Azar, Elia Bregman, Brian Buckley, Cora Lee Cole, Victoria Horrocks, Saanya Subasinghe, Rhyley Vaughan, and Kathryn Pope. As our scholarly communication ecosystem becomes increasingly reliant on digital […]
January 2023 National Student Data Corps Data Science Career Panel
Written by: Sumedh Datar A recording of this event is available at the Northeast Big Data Hub’s YouTube channel. On January 13th, 2023, the National Student Data Corps (NSDC) hosted its 11th Data Science Panel, designed to showcase the various educational and professional opportunities in the field of data science. […]
Leveraging Data Science and Advanced Technologies. Conversation with Ms. Florence D. Hudson
WIT Virtual Voices, a series of webinars hosted by the World Information Transfer focusing on the SDGs to promote science-based news on health and environment. This online webinar from NEBDHub Executive Director, Florence Hudson, touches on the role of data science in developing advanced technologies.
October 2022 National Student Data Corps Data Science Career Panel
On October 19th, 2022, the National Student Data Corps (NSDC) hosted the first National Hispanic Heritage Month Data Science Panel. Florence Hudson, the Executive Director of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub (NEBDHub), began the event by welcoming the co-moderators, the panelists, and the attendees. The event was co-moderated by Raul Cosio and Isabella Graham Martinez. Raul is a retired IBM Vice President and has received awards from the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corporation (HENAAC) and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). Isabella is a full-time student at Columbia University, works part-time at the NEBDHub as a Project Coordinator, and is a National Hispanic Scholar Awardee.
Forecasting Salinity in Rivers during Storm Events
Guest post by Dr. Laura Dietz, University of New Hampshire This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. Every winter, vast amounts of road salts are scattered onto streets across the northeastern U.S.. While important for our safety, […]
Pala Students Win ‘Best New Team’ Award at 2022 DataJam
Supercomputers can complete tasks so impressive that they have outpaced science fiction movies. However, they do more than that, they can provide inspiration to the next generation of scientists. One supercomputing center inspiring youth is the San Diego Supercomputer Center, or SDSC, at the University of California San Diego, which provides […]
Curricular Structures to Blend Data Science & the Digital Humanities
Guest post by Dr. Amanda Greene, Lehigh University This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. The goal of this project was to develop pedagogical resources that integrate humanist perspectives, ethics, and data science by supporting a collaborative […]
August 2022 National Student Data Corps Data Science Career Panel
Guest Post: Jeremy Prasad A recording of this event is available at the Northeast Big Data Hub’s YouTube channel. On August 19th, 2022, the National Student Data Corps (NSDC) hosted its ninth Data Science Panel, designed to showcase various careers in data science. The panel featured four established data scientists […]
Using Data Science To Study Environmental Racism, Justice, And Policy
Guest post by Dr. Aunshul Rege, Temple University This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. This project examined environmental injustice using a qualitative criminological lens. The project surveyed known case studies of environmental injustice in the United […]
Data Literacy as an Enabler to Broaden the Participation Of Underrepresented Minorities in STEM Careers
Guest post by Dr. Babak D. Beheshti, New York Institute of Technology This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. The objective of this project was to expand data literacy and broaden the participation of underrepresented minorities and […]
NJIT Hosts Big Data Alliance Symposium with Focus on Education
NJIT hosted the ninth New Jersey Big Data Alliance Symposium, bringing together nearly 200 experts from academia, government and industry to share ideas about the present state and future trends of their field. Attendees represented a gamut of careers, not just programmers, which the panelists said indicates that the importance […]
April 2022 National Student Data Corps Data Science Student Panel
Guest Post: Kaylen Ko & Emily Rothenberg A recording of this event is available at the Northeast Big Data Hub’s YouTube channel. On April 29th, 2022, the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub (NEBDHub) hosted the eighth National Student Data Corps (NSDC) Data Science Panel. In honor of Community College Month, […]
March 2022 National Student Data Corps Data Science Career Panel
Guest Post: Lekha Chunduri A recording of this event is available at the Northeast Big Data Hub’s YouTube channel. In honor of Women’s History Month, the NEBD Hub and the National Student Data Corps (NSDC) launched a month-long program in March 2022 called the Women in STEM campaign. This campaign leveraged […]
February 2022 National Student Data Corps Data Science Career Panel
Guest Post: Defne Ulusoy A recording of this event is available at the Northeast Big Data Hub’s YouTube channel. On February 18th, 2022, the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub (NEBD Hub) hosted the sixth National Student Data Corps (NSDC) Data Science Career Panel to have panelists discuss their career trajectories and […]
DEFLAB: Data Education and Feminism at Lafayette and Beyond
Guest post by Dr. Trent Gaugler, Lafayette College This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. The goals of this Seed Fund project were to introduce students to the fundamentals of data science through socially relevant projects, to […]
Building Tools and Training for Public & Educational Use of Geospatial Big Data
Guest post by Dr. Garrett Dash Nelson, Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at Boston Public Library This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. The primary goal of this Seed Fund project was to create a […]
October 2021 Northeast Student Data Corps Data Science Career Panel
Guest Post: Macy Moujabber A recording of this event is available at the Northeast Big Data Hub’s YouTube channel. On October 29, 2021, the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub hosted the fifth National Student Data Corps Data Science Career Panel. The talk was co-moderated by Haleigh Stewart, Undergraduate Senior at […]
Solving Health Tech Challenges Lies with Females: Meet the Women Leading Global Standards Development
Guest post: Macy Moujabber, Student Assistant, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub On September 14, 2021, the 24th session of the Wearables and Medical IoT Interoperability and Intelligence (WAMIII) Virtual Talk Series: Solving Health Tech Challenges Lies with Females: Meet the Women Leading Global Standards Development gathered women leaders in the health […]
Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub Extending its Northeast Student Data Corps to a National Program
New York, NY – October 6, 2021 The Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub announces a new rebranding initiative for the National Student Data Corps (NSDC). Formerly known as the ‘Northeast Student Data Corps’, the NSDC is a community-developed project that teaches data science fundamentals to students across the United States […]
Data Science in General Education
Guest post by Dr. Cathie LeBlanc, Plymouth State University This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. Plymouth State University has a history of active faculty learning communities focused on various aspects of teaching. Our latest learning community, funded […]
Why Aren’t More Women Participating in STEM?
Guest post: Esteban Garcia, Data Analyst, Orthus Health; MBA Candidate, Florida International University; Volunteer, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub On Wednesday, August 11th, Florence Hudson, Executive Director of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, co-hosted a roundtable on Women in STEM as part of the NSF Includes Virtual Convening. This […]
August 2021 Northeast Student Data Corps Data Science Career Panel
Guest post: Brian Buckley, Boston University; Volunteer Program Assistant, Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub On Friday, August 20, 2021, four established data scientists shared insights into the data science career world and provided anecdotes from their own experiences. Haleigh Stewart (Project Coordinator, Columbia University), Florence Hudson (Executive Director, Northeast […]
June 2021 Northeast Student Data Corps Data Science Career Panel
On June 11th, 2021, over 260 data science enthusiasts gathered for the Northeast Student Data Corps (NSDC)’s third Data Science Career Panel in its Data Science Career Panel Series. The panel once again featured data scientists from a wide range of backgrounds. The panel was the first in the series […]
April 2021 Northeast Student Data Corps Data Science Career Panel
After the launch of the Northeast Student Data Corps (NSDC)’s Data Science Career Panel Series, the NSDC hosted a second Data Science Career Panel featuring data scientists from academia, government, industry, and nonprofits. Forough Ghahramani, Northeast Student Data Corps Outreach Co-Leader and Associate Vice President for Edge, one of the […]
Northeast Student Data Corps: Inaugural Data Science Career Panel
On February 19th, 2021, 280+ students, educators and data science enthusiasts gathered for the Northeast Student Data Corps (NSDC)’s Inaugural Data Science Career Panel, where an esteemed panel of invited speakers shared their experiences and advised the attendees on potential opportunities in Data Science. The session also saw the launch […]
Data Visualization Beyond the Screen
Guest post by Dr. Sara Stoudt, Lecturer in Statistical and Data Sciences Program, Smith College We’ve all been acutely aware of screens lately; we cannot seem to escape them. As statisticians and data scientists we’re stereotypically buried in our spreadsheets and charts anyway, but who do we exclude when communicating […]
New EdgeDiscovery Virtual Magazine Issue
The Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub was highlighted for “Building a Collaborative Community to Drive Data Science Innovation” in the EdgeDiscovery Fall 2020 issue published by Edge, the research and education network community headquartered in New Jersey supporting research connectivity, collaboration and partnerships. Florence Hudson, the Northeast Hub’s executive director, discussed the focus […]
DS4All Workshop: Computer Science for All
Guest post by Catherine Cramer, Founder and Principal, Woods Hole Institute. The Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub supports the work of DS4All and has done so since 2015. While there are several different strands to this work, the focus on data science in K-12 education continues to be prominent. The […]
CUAHSI has been selected to be the Coordinating Hub for the Critical Zone (CZ) Collaborative Network
Guest post by Jerad Bales, Executive Director, CUAHSI The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) located in Cambridge, MA, has been selected to be the Coordinating Hub for the National Science Foundation’s Critical Zone (CZ) Collaborative Network. The 5-year cooperative agreement became effective September 1, 2020. The […]
Announcing the Northeast Big Data Hub Seed Fund Program
The Northeast Big Data Hub is delighted to announce our Seed Fund program this month. Designed to promote collaboration in data science, the Seed Fund will encourage the cross-pollination of ideas, data and tools across disciplines and sectors including academia, industry, government, and communities. Funding provided through this program is intended […]
Data-driven workshops help teachers understand and engage with students
Guest post by Ivon Arroyo, Associate Professor in the College of Education and the College of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Big Data for Education Spoke’s professional development workshops have empowered teachers to leverage data to identify and answer a variety of pedagogical questions about their […]
Massive online open course teaches machine learning and data mining for education research
Guest post by Ryan Baker, Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. The Northeast Big Data for Education Spoke has conducted considerable outreach on methods for data science for educational data sets. Workshops have been conducted in New York City, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and […]
ASSISTments Longitudinal Data Competition challenges participants to determine correlation between early mathematics education and STEM careers
Guest post by Ryan Baker, Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. The ASSISTments Longitudinal Data Competition (external link no longer available) invited data scientists around the world to participate in a competition around the analysis of student data. Data from middle school student […]
Data Science for All: NE Hub workshop explores teaching data science to high schoolers
Data science is expanding rapidly in undergraduate education, but at the K-12 level, few schools have integrated this critical subject into their curricula. Many questions must be answered first: how should data science be taught to high schoolers? As a standalone course, or integrated throughout other courses? What level of […]
Funding Awarded for First Round of NEBDIH-Sponsored Big Data Workshops
As part of our mission to address high-priority challenges with data-driven solutions, the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub put out a call for workshop proposals this spring. We sought to support community-driven workshops that are designed to plan and develop Big Data projects, and are delighted to announce our first […]
Announcing CRUX: The Collaborative Resource and Understanding Exchange Program
The Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub (NEBDIH) is excited to announce our CRUX program: a Collaborative Resource and Understanding Exchange. CRUX will launch the development of NEBDIH’s forthcoming Big Data Map and Assets Platform, with an ultimate aim of connecting the dots to create data-driven solutions to real-world problems. What […]