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NASEM Webinar: Data Science for Undergraduates – Opportunities & Options

As our economy, society, and daily life become increasingly dependent on data, new college graduates entering the workforce need to have the skills to analyze data effectively. At the request of the National Science Foundation, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a study to explore what data science skills are essential for undergraduates ...

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Summary, video from Big Data in Finance conference now available

The summary paper and videos are now available from the inaugural Big Data and Finance conference held at the University of Michigan. The panels included a session on data modeling and analytics led by Prof. HV Jagadish (EECS), and another on data privacy and security led by Prof. Alfred Hero (MIDAS co-director).

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Workshop co-chaired by MIDAS co-director Prof. Hero releases proceedings on inference in big data

The National Academies Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics has released proceedings from its June 2016 workshop titled “Refining the Concept of Scientific Inference When Working with Big Data,” co-chaired by Alfred Hero, MIDAS co-director and the John H Holland Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The report can be downloaded from ...

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Data science institutes at University of Michigan and University College London sign academic cooperation agreement

ANN ARBOR, MI and LONDON — The Michigan Institute of Data Science (MIDAS) at the University of Michigan and the Centre for Data Science and Big Data Institute at UCL (University College London) have signed a five-year agreement of scientific and academic cooperation. The agreement sets the stage for collaborative research projects between faculty of ...

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MIDAS Co-Director Al Hero receives 2016-2017 Stephen S. Attwood Award

Al Hero, Co-Director for the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS), has received the 2016-2017 Stephen S. Attwood Award, the highest honor awarded to a faculty member by the College of Engineering for “extraordinary achievement in teaching, research, service, and other activities that have brought distinction to the College and University.”  More information on this ...

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MIDAS co-sponsoring Transportation Research Board’s Transformational Technologies symposium — Oct. 31 & Nov. 1 in Detroit

This symposium will bring together leaders from the public and private sectors and academia to meet the challenges posed by deployment of transformational transportation technologies. MIDAS affiliated faculty members Carol Flannagan, Al Hero and Pascal Van Hentenryck will be speaking. For more information, visit the event website.

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Slate Article: Reproducibility crisis is good for science

Recently it has been shown that many published results in biology, epidemiology,  psychology have failed to reproduce when reanalyzed with new data. This article in Slate argues that the reproducibility crisis is actually good for science, creating an awareness of the need for careful experimental design and and statistical data analysis. MIDAS is committed to promoting ...

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FiveThirtyEight Article: Scalia was almost never the most conservative justice

A recent analysis of Supreme Court data by U-M LSA Dean Andrew Martin, published in FiveThirtyEight, shows that the late Antonin Scalia was almost never the most conservative justice on the court.