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So You Want to Be a Data Scientist
Monday, June 8 2015More than 50 students—majoring in everything from political science to engineering—gathered on the third floor of Gross Hall for a lunch to share status updates on their Data+ projects.
Two iiD Teams Help LinkedIn Improve Opportunity for World’s Workforce
Tuesday, May 26 2015Two of the 11 teams that won the innovative and highly competitive LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge are led by Duke Statistics faculty affiliated with iiD.
Launched in October 2014, the challenge asked investigators, academicians and “data-driven thinkers” to submit their ideas for creating greater economic opportunity for the approximately 3 billion people in the global workforce.
Video: Innovative Approaches to Autism Diagnoses
Thursday, May 21 2015In the latest Duke Forward video in the Ideas That Move the World Forward series, iiD faculty member Guillermo Sapiro talks about a new technological approach to mental health disability screening and behavioral analysis in children.
Maths Is (Also) for Women
Wednesday, May 20 2015The World Academy of Sciences interviewed Duke's Ingrid Daubechies on why more women should engage in mathematics.
More Evidence That Big Data Draws Big Dollars. This Time From Duke University
Wednesday, May 6 2015From Inside Philanthropy: The potential for huge amounts of data to accelerate advances across fields has funders giddy. Part of the draw is the diverse array of possible applications, and Duke University's collaborative data science center is a prime example.
Fitting Name for New Gross Hall Space: 'The Foundry'
Friday, May 1 2015Evoking the energetic spirit of industry and entrepreneurship, the new “maker space” in the lower level of Gross Hall has been named The Foundry: The Design Foundry @ Duke.
Duke Receives $9.75 Million for ‘Big Data’ Initiative
Monday, April 27 2015The gifts will endow iiD professorships, graduate fellowships in engineering, and educational programs on data-driven problem-solving, both in the classroom and in the field. It also will provide flexible funding for iiD to explore new teaching and research avenues.
Conitzer Awarded $50,000 Guggenheim Fellowship
Monday, April 20 2015Vincent Conitzer has been named a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow for his work in computational social choice, and he will receive a $50,000 grant to support his research.
Graduate Fellows: Chris Tralie
Thursday, April 16 2015Through iiD, graduate students mentor undergraduates in labs during the semester and into the summer, bringing them in on intensive, highly creative projects. This hooks undergraduates on the excitement of working with real data early in their Duke education.
Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality
Thursday, April 16 2015Large-scale databases from the social, behavioral, and economic sciences offer enormous potential benefits to society. When made widely accessible, these databases facilitate advances in research and policy-making, enable students to develop skills at data analysis, and help ordinary citizens learn about their communities. However, as most stewards of social science data are acutely aware, wide-scale dissemination of such data can result in unintended disclosures of data subjects’ identities and sensitive attributes, thereby violating promises—and in some instances laws—to protect data subjects’ privacy and confidentiality. iiD faculty, social science faculty, and Duke OIT staff are developing new methods and infrastructure for providing access to large-scale confidential social science data. These methods have the potential to revolutionize how researchers, students, and the general public access data, helping facilitate more and deeper analyses about our society.