Commercial space: Can we privatize our way to the stars?
Annual conference explores the rise and distant future of the private space industry.
The next-generation water cooler
Smart flavored-beverage machines are persuading consumers nationwide to ditch their plastic bottles.
Get your head in the game
MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference rolls on, showcasing more data and greater impact.
Artificial data give the same results as real data — without compromising privacy
New approach can help organizations scale their data science efforts with artificial data and crowdsourcing.
Women in Data Science conference highlights impactful work and builds community
Some 150 academic leaders, industry professionals, and students gather in Cambridge as part of a worldwide Women in Data Science event.
Strength in numbers
PhD student Dean Knox studies social networks and how individuals use them to access government goods and services.
Cheaper, faster randomized evaluations
J-PAL North America releases new catalog of administrative data sets to give researchers a leg up in conducting rigorous evaluations of social programs.
Putting data in the hands of doctors
Computer scientist Regina Barzilay empowers cancer treatment with machine learning.
From MIT Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp to boomtown
An MIT global entrepreneur launches one of the world's most innovative companies.
What can we learn from lottery spending?
“City Digits: Local Lotto” teaches Brooklyn high school students how to work with data by analyzing lottery spending patterns.
Making the most of social media
Jenny Fowler, manager of social media strategy in MIT’s Communications Initiatives, shares tips for those building a social media presence for their DLC or group.
Taming data
System finds and links related data scattered across digital files, for easy querying and filtering.
Split-second data mapping
New type of database-analytics platform queries and maps billions of data points in milliseconds.
How ride-sharing can improve traffic, save money, and help the environment
Study shows carpooling apps could reduce congestion by a factor of three while still serving the same number of people.
Data diversity
Preserving variety in subsets of unmanageably large data sets should aid machine learning.