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White House spends millions to train more data scientists

Posted on December 1, 2013 by timbatchelder

White House To Universities: We Need More Data Scientists
BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER, fastcompany.com

New York University, University of California-Berkeley, and the University of Washington are launching a $37.8 million project to boost the numbers of American data scientists.

It’s official: America needs more data scientists. This week, a…

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UC Berkeley BIDS Launch and Conscilience (pafnuty.wordpress.com)
Big Data Grant from Moore, Sloan Aims to Make Pi-Shaped Scientists (xconomy.com)
QuickWire: 3 Universities Join to Make Big Data More Useful (chronicle.com)
Data science institute on campus to facilitate multidisciplinary research (dailycal.org)
Grant will support interdisciplinary, data-intensive research at UW (washington.edu)
Busy Week for Big Data (cni.org)
Program Seeks to Nurture ‘Data Science Culture’ at Universities (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
Big turnout for launch of big-data center (newscenter.berkeley.edu)
New data science institute to help scholars harness ‘big data’ (newscenter.berkeley.edu)

What to Consider in Deciding Whether to Rent or Buy

Posted on September 16, 2012 by timbatchelder

What to Consider in Deciding Whether to Rent or Buy
Richard Florida is Co-Founder and Editor at Large at The Atlantic Cities. He’s also a Senior Editor at The Atlantic, Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, and Global Research Professor at New York University. He is a frequent speaker to communities, business and professional organizations, and founder of the Creative Class Group, whose current client list can be found here. All posts », theatlanticcities.com

What makes more sense today — to rent or to buy? And where to do it?

Real-estate website Trulia’s “Summer 2012 Rent vs. Buy” report, released Thursday, points to the large U.S. metros where owning a house, when taxes and other transactio…

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Rule for Success: Choose Your Playing Field (inc.com)
Renters Insurance, Is It Worth It? Weighing the Pros and Cons – Rent.com. | The Shared Wall (rent.com)
Refocusing important on and off the court, says recent study. (eurekalert.org)
Buying home £120 cheaper a month than renting (telegraph.co.uk)
4 Steps to Take Before Renting Out Your Home (allstate.com)
Rent My Vacation Home Makes Deposits and Cancellations Unnecessary (prweb.com)

NYU Interactive Media Program’s Rob Faludi makes things that talk to each other

Posted on May 9, 2010 by timbatchelder

IOE signs agreement with New York University (Photo credit: IOE London)

I love this program. Finally more schools are merging liberal arts and technology to make cool things..

The Grill: NYU’s Rob Faludi wants your toaster to befriend your smoke alarm.

Rihanna To Visit NYU This Spring In Wake Of Students’ “Diamonds” Tribute (nyulocal.com)
No More Choosing Roommates For NYU Freshmen (newyork.cbslocal.com)
Large-Scale Machine Learning at NYU (datascience101.wordpress.com)
The Top Colleges in NY for English Majors (college.answers.com)

Mobile communications and loneliness

Posted on February 9, 2009 by timbatchelder

An article in Boston Globe magazine charts the curious trend away from real human interaction towards entirely digitally mediated ones and notes the importance of being “un reachable” at times which is becoming increasingly difficult, and of being able to tolerate being alone. In particular the article cites research by an NYU social scientist and a U Toronto information scientist that show the effects of widespread usage of mobile comms on our culture.

Meditation in the news: PTSD, Loneliness, Inflammation and Stress of Youth Violence (karahpino.me)
Meditation reduces loneliness (sciencedaily.com)
The Worst Kind of Loneliness (deepthinkings.wordpress.com)
Loneliness… (daveboothby.wordpress.com)
Loneliness ‘major health issue’ (bbc.co.uk)

NYU Stern Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences website actually looks halfway cool

Posted on August 27, 2008 by timbatchelder

Stern School of Business, New York University (Photo credit: InSapphoWeTrust)

NYU Stern | Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences.

Similar to NYU’s interactive media program, it also has what looks to be a very nice IS program which is well described on their site, unlike others which look like a Best Buy Geek Squad counter. Might be worth giving some examples to other sites using the course descriptions, student highlights etc. and what can be done with CIS.

MBA Student Interview – Ben from NYU Stern (accepted.com)
Professors Weigh in on NYU’s Expansion Plan (wnyc.org)
5 Reasons Why NYU’s Expansion Plan Reeks of 1% Greed (alternet.org)
NYU Stern Essay Topic Analysis 2012-2013 (clearadmit.com)
NYU Stern MBA – New York University grad turns Entrepreneur in India (mbacrystalball.com)
Identifying influential and susceptible members of social networks like Facebook, Twitter (nextlevelofnews.com)
Richard Florida, Renowned Urbanist, Appointed Global Research Professor at NYU (sacbee.com)
Current Student Interview – Richard from NYU Stern (accepted.com)
Who Wields the Most Influence on Facebook? (healthland.time.com)

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