Archive: News
-
Working at the Intersection of Data Science and NLP
A glimpse of work that occurs at the intersection of data science and natural language processing, including cross-cultural name matching, Arabic proximity search, Chinese IR for term highlighting, Korean word similarity, and emoji processing for sentiment analysis.
Category: News Story
-
Georgetown Analytics Student on Winning Team at VHacks
Analytics student Yanchen Wang (MS ’19) was a programmer for the winning team of five Georgetown students sent to participate in VHacks, a hackathon at the Vatican.
Category: News Story
-
Analytics Student Yanchen Wang Selected for Vatican Hackathon
Analytics student Yanchen Wang (MS ’19) was selected to participate in VHacks, a hackathon at the Vatican.
Category: News Story
-
The Silicon Petri Dish: Modeling, Simulation, and Data Science
Using an initial set of assumptions about the state of the world derived from data analytics, a computer simulation model functioning as a “silicon petri dish” can be used to create synthetic data containing salient features of the real data set.
Category: News Story
-
Comparative Overview of Programming Languages for Data-Intensive Projects
Leo Osvald, PhD candidate at Purdue University View Presentation Abstract: DIY technological devices, making, and hacking are becoming more and more accessible for anybody. Especially
Category: News Story
-
Build Your Own Data Collection IoT Devices
DIY technological devices, making, and hacking are becoming more and more accessible for anybody. Especially for creating your own data and doing your own analytics this trend offers exiting opportunities…
Category: News Story
-
Analytics and Public Policy Students Win 2017 Deloitte Foundation Fellowship
Analytics students Tiankai Guo & Ruhan Wang teamed up with McCourt School of Public Policy students Andre Lee & Tommie Thompson to win the 2017 Deloitte Foundation Fellowship.
Category: News Story
-
Challenges and Successes of Managing Big Data
This seminar defines what Big Data is, and what challenges industry and research community face in dealing with Big Data…
Category: News Story
-
A Practitioner’s Look at Speech -to-Text
Discussion of the basics of signal processing for speech recognition, acoustic and language models, and how they are jointly maximized to produce text.
Category: News Story
-
How NYC is Using Analytics to Keep New Yorkers Safe
The discussion covers how the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics (MODA) uses citywide data and analytics to identify likely cases of tenant harassment throughout NYC.
Category: News Story