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Data scientist dreams up ideas and then brings them to life

An app could soon give blind people a new tool to explore the world

Anirudh Koul’s grandfather was slowly losing his ability to see. By 2014, he was having a hard time recognizing Koul’s face in their weekly Skype calls bridging the vast distance between the Silicon Valley, where Koul is a data scientist at Microsoft, and the elderly man’s home in New Delhi. (more…)

‘Hackathon’ teaches Chicago high school students the social power of Big Data

By Guest PostNovember 28, 2013Education, Scienceanonymity, big data, campaign, Chicago, chicago data portal, city, commuting patterns, complex data, creative use, data, data scientist, Eric Schmidt, google chairman, high school hackathon, kenwood academy, nina henderson, obama for america, public policy, rayid ghani, shaz rasul, statistics, tom plagge, university of chicago, urban problems, william woods

Like urban bike-sharing programs everywhere, Chicago’s Divvy must contend with a key problem: due to commuting patterns, some bike stations empty out fast while others fill up quickly, leaving no space for more drop-offs.

But such urban problems can be addressed with socially minded computer science, as a group of 50 Chicago high school students learned recently during a daylong conference at the University of Chicago. (more…)

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Data scientist dreams up ideas and then brings them to life

‘Hackathon’ teaches Chicago high school students the social power of Big Data