A new project led by Richard Plunz and his colleagues at the Earth Institute’s Urban Design Lab combines mapping techniques with Twitter-usage data to gain a real-time understanding of how people occupy public space.

Chris Wiggins, a Data Science Institute professor and Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times, has helped launch nytDEMO, a group at the NYT devoted to bringing data-science prototypes into products.

Researchers from the Data Science Institute will use the grant to conduct ecological research in Puerto Rico, where they’re studying the effect of Hurricane Maria on El Yunque National Forest, the only tropical rainforest in the U.S. Forest System.

In this video, Jeannette Wing, Ivan Corwin, John Cunningham, and David Madigan — four of Columbia’s leading investigators — explain their research and Columbia's commitment to harnessing data science and big data for the benefit of society.

Eugene Wu, an assistant professor of computer science and a member of the Data Science Institute, where he co-chairs the Center for Data, Media and Society received an Amazon Research Award for his proposal “Interactive Matcher Debugging via Adversarial Generation.”