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Can Online Professional Development Courses Teach Data-Driven Decision Making?
Statistics and Data Science Center Director Devavrat Shah weighs in on how the MIT xPRO online course ‘Data Science and Big Data Analytics: Making Data-Driven Decisions’ is helping professionals leverage an avalanche of data to make better decisions for their organizations.
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Emery Brown Awarded the 2018 Dickson Prize in Science
The prize recognizes Brown’s substantial achievements in the statistical analysis of neuronal data and his research on anesthesia.
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IDSS conference explores data-disruption in the retail sector
Industry and academic leaders discussed how retailers are personalizing sales and delivering unique customer experiences — with the help of machine learning, predictive analytics, and artificial intelligence.
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Model paves way for faster, more efficient translations of more languages
IDSS affiliate Tommi Jaakkola and CSAIL researchers have developed a model leveraging a metric in statistics, called Gromov-Wasserstein distance, that could lead to faster, more efficient language translations.
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Suvrit Sra awarded NSF TRIPODS + X grant
Sra’s cross-disciplinary research explores how machine learning can improve medical imaging.
