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It is no surprise that when you get a group of highly intelligent students together, most tasks turn into a competition. And for a group of aspiring data scientists, that competition comes down to numbers! This month, our Blue and Orange cohorts competed against one another to donate as many Continue reading Thanksgiving Food Drive
IAA’s Annual School Supplies Drive On average, teachers spend $500 each school year for supplies for their students. In order to help decrease this amount locally, the students at the Institute for Advanced Analytics organized a supplies drive for Centennial Campus Middle School (CCMS). Eight students from the class of Continue reading Annual School Supplies Drive Class of 2019
At the start of my IT career, when I was introduced to the field of data analytics, using data to solve problems appealed to me for the humanitarian possibilities it yields. Outside of my job, I was engaged with local nonprofits and NGOs working in fields that I was passionate Continue reading Data Dive with Data Kind
“Novel data streams allow us to see what’s happening in areas where traditional disease surveillance is weak. As internet penetration around the world improves, we are getting better signal in more places.” Maia Majumder is a computational epidemiology research fellow at HealthMap and a PhD candidate at MIT. In our Continue reading Datalines: An Interview with Maia Majumder