Category: NYU
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Today’s session followed the usual macro/micro format, starting with a guest lecturer to provide big-picture context, and ending with hands-on labs for more in-depth skill development. Our guest lecturer, Lela Prashad, is Chief Data Scientist at NiJeL.org and technical adviser to my MIT thesis project, OpenIR. She specializes in geospatial…
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The range of student backgrounds and voices continues to engage, excite, and make for lively discussion and experimentation. As Anthony Vanky said during the MIT workshop, I take a “mile-wide, inch deep” approach to structuring graduate workshops, with the aim of giving students a fat set of tools for going…
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In today’s first session, we got situated with basic housekeeping + intros, some background lecture, and some hands-on exercises. I’m very pleased to see a few different departments represented in this class: ITP of course, CUSP (NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress), and Journalism. Students represent a wide range of previous…
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The Quantified Self About Town Tues, 12:10pm to 3:05pm. 721 Broadway, NYC, Floor 4, Room 15 How can we take advantage of the connected technologies transforming individual data to massively larger scales in time and space? From smartphones to wearables, from social media to quantified self, the aggregation and geo-location of…