News, updates, and perspectives from across the Northeast and beyond.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The NSDC Data Science Flashcards series will teach you how the data pipeline is developed for data science projects. This installment of the NSDC Data Science Flashcards series was created by Sneha Dahiya, a graduate student majoring in Business Analytics. You can find these videos on the NEBDHub Youtube channel. […]
The NSDC Data Science Flashcards series will teach you how the data pipeline is developed for data science projects. This installment of the NSDC Data Science Flashcards series was created by Emily Rothenberg, National Student Data Corps (NSDC) Program Manager. You can find these videos on the NEBDHub Youtube channel. […]
The NSDC Data Science Flashcards series will teach you how the data pipeline is developed for data science projects. This installment of the NSDC Data Science Flashcards series was created by Sneha Dahiya, a graduate student majoring in Business Analytics. You can find these videos on the NEBDHub Youtube channel. […]
The NSDC Data Science Flashcards series will teach you how the data pipeline is developed for data science projects. This flashcard was created by Emily Rothenberg, National Student Data Corps (NSDC) Program Manager. You can find the full NSDC Data Science Flashcards collection of videos on the NEBDHub Youtube channel. […]
The NSDC Data Science Flashcards series will teach you how the data pipeline is developed for data science projects. This flashcard was created by Emily Rothenberg, National Student Data Corps (NSDC) Program Manager. You can find the full NSDC Data Science Flashcards collection of videos on the NEBDHub Youtube channel. […]
The Water Data Forum is a virtual webinar series presented by the Cleveland Water Alliance, Water Environment Federation, and Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub. These interactive web sessions engage a cross-sector panel of experts in an exploration of utility, private sector, and research approaches to collecting, managing, and measuring water […]
Guest post by Dr. Shuting Wang, Assistant Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY) 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. In this study, the Baruch College team investigated the […]
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 […]
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 […]
The thirteenth in the series of COVID Information Commons (CIC) webinars which began in 2020 took place on April 24th, 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The twelfth in the series of COVID Information Commons (CIC) webinars which began in 2020 took place on January 31st, 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 […]
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. […]
The purpose of this Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) is to inform the scientific community of the interest of NIGMS, NLM, and ODSS in supporting efficiency optimization and cost reduction for Sequence Read Archive (SRA) data storage and utilization. Research Objectives The SRA, hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology […]
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.
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.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The COVID Information Commons (CIC) webinar took place on July 15th, 2022. 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 (PI), and Lauren Close, […]
Guest post by Dr. Steven Skiena, Stony Brook University This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. Steven Skiena and Xingzhi Guo presented this research to the COVID Information Commons (CIC) community as part of the February 2022 […]
Guest post by Dr. Todd Brothers, University of Rhode Island This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. The main goal of this project was to develop a cutting-edge tool, CritCOVIDView, for bedside clinicians interpreting individualized patient data […]
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 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 […]
The June 2022 COVID Information Commons (CIC) webinar took place on June 10th, 2022. In this forum, leading COVID-19 scientists funded by NSF 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 […]
The April 2022 COVID Information Commons (CIC) webinar took place on April 15th, 2022. In this forum, leading COVID-19 scientists funded by the NSF presented their current research on the global pandemic. Florence Hudson, Executive Director of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University and COVID Information Commons […]
The May 2022 COVID Information Commons (CIC) webinar took place on May 5th, 2022. In this forum, leading COVID-19 scientists funded by the NSF presented their current research on the global pandemic. Florence Hudson, Executive Director of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub at Columbia University and COVID Information Commons […]
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, […]
Guest Post: Kenia Pujols Keywords: Pandemic, virtual reality, health, data science, mandates, government, collaboration, diagnostics, depression, social isolation, learning, COVID-19. A recording of this event is available on the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s YouTube Channel and the COVID Information Commons website at covidinfocommons.net. The COVID Information Commons is an […]
Guest post by Dr. Seth Cooper, Northeastern University This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. The main goal of this project was to integrate location-based images into an augmented reality (AR) citizen science game toolkit by interfacing […]
Guest post by Dr. Hongyu Zhao, Yale School of Public Health, Yale 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 address the computational and implementation issues by developing a unified and […]
Guest post by Dr. Eli Fenichel, Yale 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 the project was to bring together mathematics, data science, economic epidemiology, and public health, contributing to all fields by […]
Guest post by Dr. Robert Wieder, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. The goal of the project was to conduct an in-depth large-scale study of the comprehensive 1991-2016 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Post Guest: Haleigh Stewart Four NSF-funded researchers convened on Friday, February 4th, 2022 at the COVID-19 Research Webinar Lightning Talk, marking the 17th event of the webinar series. Organized through the COVID Information Commons (CIC), the COVID-19 Research Webinar series fosters collaboration across different disciplines and provides a virtual platform […]
Guest Post: Kenia Pujols Keywords: Pandemic, STEM, structural biology, crystallography, MARCO polo, COVID-ARC, bibliometrics, health, data science, collaboration, archive, COVID-19. A recording of this event is available at the Northeast Big Data Hub’s YouTube Channel and covidinfocommons.net. The COVID Information Commons is a NSF-funded project brought to you by the […]
Guest post by Dr. Kaushallya Adhikari, University of Rhode Island This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. The goal for the project was to perform functional cortical mapping using tripolar electroencephalography (tEEG) and EEG data with convolutional […]
Guest post by Dr. Ho-Joon Lee, Yale School of Medicine This Success Story is a report on the results of the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub’s 2020 Seed Fund program. COVID Information Commons Presentation: A landscape of virus-host protein-protein interactions in SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans by machine learning Our goal […]
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 […]
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 […]
