There is a particularly compelling data hackathon this weekend. It is the data on heating complaints in NYC. As you know. may unscrupulous landlords illegally and immorally withhold heat in the winter to force rent stabilized and rent controlled tenants out of their homes. Let’s use data nail them this…[Read more]

For anyone looking to come up to speed on Free Software Research tools (aren’t we all?). I would love to teach this at some point.

http://vislab-ccom.unh.edu/~schwehr/rt/

It covers R, Python, the shell, GiS and editors.

There is a full course on research tools that I think students in the bench sciences, social sciences and digital humanities should be aware of:

http://vislab-ccom.unh.edu/~schwehr/rt/

It covers R, Python, the shell, GiS and editors.

I wrote a small post on the excellent presentation by David Kung at the Mathematics Association of America on the persistence of the so called minority achievement gap. My post is available http://misshula.org and his talk is available at https://youtu.be/V03scHu_OJE?t=23m3s.

Please join the GC Digital Initiatives, the GC Digital Fellows, the PhD program in Computer Science and the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative in welcoming from MIT’s legendary CS/AI Lab and the Free Software Foundation Dr. Gerald J Sussman, who will present on the problems created by intelligent agents whose governing are purposefully obscured…[Read more]

Please join the GC Digital Initiatives, the GC Digital Fellows, the PhD program in Computer Science and the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative in welcoming from MIT’s legendary CS/AI Lab and the Free Software Foundation Gerald J Sussman, who will present on the problems created by intelligent agents whose governing are purposefully obscured but…[Read more]