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NSDC Data Science Flashcards – Time Series #5 – What are Time Series Forecasting Methods?

This NSDC Data Science Flashcards series will teach you about time series analysis, including data preprocessing, decomposition, plots, and forecasting. This installment of the NSDC Data Science Flashcards series was created by Varalika Mahajan. Recordings were done by Aditya Raj. You can find these videos on the NEBDHub Youtube channel. […]

Flashcard Intro Slide: What are Time Series Forecasting Methods?

NSDC Data Science Flashcards – Time Series #3 – What is Time Series Decomposition?

This NSDC Data Science Flashcards series will teach you about time series analysis, including data preprocessing, decomposition, plots, and forecasting. This installment of the NSDC Data Science Flashcards series was created by Varalika Mahajan. Recordings were done by Aditya Raj. You can find these videos on the NEBDHub Youtube channel. […]

Flashcard Intro Slide: What is Time Series Decomposition?

Flashcard Intro Slide: What is Time Series Data Preprocessing?

NSDC Data Science Flashcards – Time Series #2 – What is Time Series Data Preprocessing?

This NSDC Data Science Flashcards series will teach you about time series analysis, including data preprocessing, decomposition, plots, and forecasting. This installment of the NSDC Data Science Flashcards series was created by Varalika Mahajan. Recordings were done by Aditya Raj. You can find these videos on the NEBDHub Youtube channel. […]


Flashcard Intro Slide: What are the 5 V's of Big Data?

NSDC Data Science Flashcards – Data Science Ethics Card #6 – 5 V’s of Big Data

This NSDC Data Science Flashcards series will teach you about the importance of data ethics. This installment of the NSDC Data Science Flashcards series was created by Florence Hudson and Varalika Mahajan. Recordings were done by Lauren Close, Florence Hudson, and Emily Rothenberg. You can find these videos on the […]


NSDC Data Science Flashcards – Data Science Ethics Card #5 – Algorithmic Fairness

This NSDC Data Science Flashcards series will teach you about the importance of data ethics. This installment of the NSDC Data Science Flashcards series was created by Florence Hudson and Varalika Mahajan. Recordings were done by Lauren Close, Florence Hudson, and Emily Rothenberg. You can find these videos on the […]

Flashcard Intro Slide: What is Algorithmic Fairness?

Flashcard Intro Slide: What are the FAIR Data Principles?

NSDC Data Science Flashcards – Data Science Ethics Card #4 – FAIR Principles Part 2

This NSDC Data Science Flashcards series will teach you about the importance of data ethics. This installment of the NSDC Data Science Flashcards series was created by Florence Hudson and Varalika Mahajan. Recordings were done by Lauren Close, Florence Hudson, and Emily Rothenberg. You can find these videos on the […]


NSDC Data Science Flashcards – Data Science Ethics Card #3 – FAIR Principles Part 1

This NSDC Data Science Flashcards series will teach you about the importance of data ethics. This installment of the NSDC Data Science Flashcards series was created by Florence Hudson and Varalika Mahajan. Recordings were done by Lauren Close, Florence Hudson, and Emily Rothenberg. You can find these videos on the […]

Flashcard Intro Slide: What are the FAIR Data Principles?

Data Science Flashcard Intro Slide: What is Intellectual Property?

NSDC Data Science Flashcards – Data Science Ethics Card #2 – Intellectual Property

This NSDC Data Science Flashcards series will teach you about the importance of data ethics. This installment of the NSDC Data Science Flashcards series was created by Florence Hudson and Varalika Mahajan. Recordings were done by Lauren Close, Florence Hudson, and Emily Rothenberg. You can find these videos on the […]


NSDC Data Science Flashcards – Data Science Ethics Card #1 – Privacy, Transparency, and Consent

This NSDC Data Science Flashcards series will teach you about the importance of data ethics. This installment of the NSDC Data Science Flashcards series was created by Florence Hudson and Varalika Mahajan. Recordings were done by Lauren Close, Florence Hudson, and Emily Rothenberg. You can find these videos on the […]

Flashcard Intro Slide: What is Privacy, Transparency, and Consent?

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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 […]


Summer 2023 CIC Webinar Recap

The fourteenth session of the COVID Information Commons (CIC) webinar series took place on July 26th, 2023. In this forum, leading COVID-19 scientists presented their current research on the global pandemic.  Event moderators included Florence Hudson, Executive Director of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University and COVID Information Commons Principal Investigator […]

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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 […]

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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.

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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 […]


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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]


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 […]

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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 […]


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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) […]