Natalie Evans Harris | Creating A Shared Code Of Ethics To Guide Ethical and Responsible Use of Data
During her career at the National Security Agency, Capitol Hill and the White House, Natalie Evans Harris saw that while we collected troves of data, we didn't have strong frameworks and governance in...
1 Aug 201930min
Meltem Ballan | Mission Impossible, Fingerprint Recognition, and Connected Cars
Ballan brings multiple perspectives to her current work on Connected Cars—drawing on expertise in data science and neuroscience gained during her ever-changing career in academia, entrepreneurship and...
17 Juli 201933min
Chiara Sabatti | Algorithms and the Human Genome
Data science and genetics are closely linked and have been for some time. But now, data science is playing an even larger role in genetics, a trend that is prompting researchers to look hard at their ...
10 Dec 201834min
Elena Grewal | From Education to Head of Airbnb Data Science
Career paths don’t always follow a straight line. Just ask Elena Grewal, whose education culminated in a PhD in education, but who became the head data scientist at Airbnb. In some ways, the leap wasn...
3 Dec 201843min
Sonu Durgia | Optimizing the Online Shopping Experience
Consumers know Walmart as a retailing giant that has changed the face of retail in communities across America. But with a data store containing billions of queries and items, it’s also a laboratory fo...
26 Nov 201828min
Megan Price | Data Science and the Fight for Human Rights
Data scientists are involved in a wide array of domains, everything from healthcare to cybersecurity to cosmology. Megan Price and her colleagues at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG), howev...
20 Nov 201846min
Eileen Martin + Nilah Monnier Ioannidis | Data in Seismology and Genomics Research
Fiber optic cables that convey data at high speeds across the globe area is a well-known feature of modern technology. Now, university data scientists have found a unique use for them: monitoring eart...
12 Nov 201837min
Janet George | The Multifaceted World of Data Storage
“Fail fast” has become something of a mantra in Silicon Valley. But Janet George, the chief data officer of data storage giant Western Digital, has an amendment to that conventional wisdom: “Fail priv...
5 Nov 201831min
