Next Generation of Indigenous Coders: STEM+CS and Career Readiness Course
Applications to join due April 10th
Education Data Literacy
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. […]
Platform Engineering Internship, RENCI
The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) is a living laboratory that creates cyberinfrastructure for the benefit of science, business, and society. What makes us so ‘renaissance’? Our work isn’t just about solving known problems. It’s aboutunlocking human potential.We accelerate research.We help overcome barriers to make research faster, stronger, and more creative.We […]
Summer Internships at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
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.
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 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 working […]
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 […]
Data Literacy as an Enabler to Broaden the Participation Of Underrepresented Minorities in STEM Careers
Guest post by 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 women […]
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 […]
Building Tools and Training for Public & Educational Use of Geospatial Big Data
Guest post by 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 gateway […]
Data Science Research and Training Program
Guest post by Yusuf Danisman, Queensborough Community College, City University of New York (CUNY) This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. The aim of this Seed Fund project was to Improve programming and data science skills of […]
COVID Information Commons: Lightning Talks (November 2021)
Guest Post: Saanya Subasinghe A recording of this event is available at the Northeast Big Data Hub’s YouTube channel as well as at covidinfocommons.net. The COVID Information Commons is an NSF-funded project brought to you by the Big Data Innovation Hubs, led by the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at […]
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 Cathie LeBlanc, Ph.D., 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 […]
How to Innovate AI Procurement?
Guest post by Mona Sloane, Ph.D., New York University This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly deployed in the public sector. As these technologies can harm citizens and pose risk to […]
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 […]
Thinking Beyond the Ordinary: Unconventional Approaches to Success and Utilizing Data Science for Good
Data science has become relevant across all disciplines in areas of STEM from healthcare to environmental studies and cybersecurity, to the humanities and social sciences in areas like criminal justice, ethics, and economics. Now more than ever it is imperative that we work towards developing valuable insights from data science […]
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 […]
Announcement of Student Paper Challenge and shared insights amongst COVID-19 researchers at the December COVID Information Commons webinar
Over 80 people convened for this month’s COVID webinar, as six NSF Rapid Response Research investigators from across the United States shared their research topics and findings regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, and the new COVID Information Commons Student Paper Challenge was announced. This month’s presenters included Foad Hamidi (University of […]
Executive Director Florence Hudson discusses data science for good and data literacy at Iona College
On October 13, 2020, Executive Director Florence Hudson spoke at the Careers in Science program at Iona College. She discussed leveraging data to identify new insights that can help members of society make better decisions, as well as her own career trajectory in science. Representing the current strides and efforts […]
Researchers from NYU Tandon release 3-D data tracking human interactions outside of coronavirus hotspots
Study to set groundwork to build machine learning models that rapidly analyze how a virus spreads In April when New York City was under a strict lockdown, a team of 16 student researchers from New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering commenced a National Science Foundation Rapid Response Research (RAPID) […]
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 […]
Cyberteam to Advance Research and Education in Eastern Regional Schools Program
The CAREERS Cyberteam Program is a 3-year initiative to build a regional pool of Research Computing Facilitators to support researchers at small and midsized institutions…
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 […]
Using machine learning to optimize big data workflows for collaborative computational steering
Guest post by Chase Wu, Associate Chair of and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at NJIT. Research Background Model-based simulations have become an essential component in next-generation scientific applications and are generating big data on the order of terabyte at present and petabyte or exabyte in the predictable […]
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 invited data scientists around the world to participate in a competition around the analysis of student data. Data from middle school student use of a popular online […]
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 […]
UMass Amherst, WPI, Penn announce winners of Northeast big data competition
Winning Schemes for Predicting Student Interest in Science UMass Amherst, WPI, Penn announce winners of Northeast big data competition AMHERST, Mass. – After a year-long, global data-mining competition, organizers today awarded the top three winning teams from Hong Kong, Japan and Michigan at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Northeast Big […]
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 […]
Talking Big Data Literacy in “Data Divide” series
With data touching all aspects of our lives today, how can we look beyond traditional approaches to data science education to build capacity as broadly and inclusively as possible? Leaders in data science education discussed “Alternative Avenues for Development of Data Science Education Capacity” on Friday, September 22nd, in a […]
First Steps toward Big Data Literacy Framework at Spring Workshop
Guest post by Catherine Cramer, NYSCI Increasingly, the prosperity, innovation and security of individuals and communities depend on a big data-literate society, which calls for a concerted effort to define what it means to be a big data literate citizen, information worker, researcher, or policymaker. As a step toward that […]
Meeting of the Big Data in Education Spoke
Our Big Data in Education Spoke harnesses data-driven approaches to improve student outcomes and transform existing educational practices. Activities have recently kicked off with the first of three educational data competitions now open to worldwide participation. You can learn more and get involved at our upcoming Spoke meeting this summer! […]
Big Data in Education: News and Competition
How can big data help predict student outcomes? Ryan Baker (U Penn) and Neil Heffernan (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) of our Big Data for Education Spoke hope to do just that via the Longitudinal Educational Big Data Competition. Using carefully de-identified, real-world educational data, participants will predict whether 172 students in validation and […]