Thanks to a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Andreas Mueller, a lecturer at Columbia's Data Science Institute, will be able to create software that makes machine learning even easier to use.

The National Science Foundation announced today that it will fund the Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS), which will be based at Columbia's Data Science Institute.

David Blei, a Professor of Statistics and Computer Science in the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

For data science to be effectively used in different kinds of scientific research, data scientists must take a holistic view that fuses statistical and computational skills with human judgment, argues the Data Science Institute's David Blei.

Amir Imani wrote his first computer program, a family phone book, at age 9. The experience sealed his interest in computing. “Coding gave me a way to explore the enigmatic world of computers,” he said.