Data Science and Analytics news

As part of the Arizona Health Improvement Plan (AZHIP), Arizona State University (ASU) provided technical assistance to the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) Data Advisory Committee (DAC) to create a modified social vulnerability index (SVI) that tailors to the health, environment, socioe...

Should you believe innocent looks or statistics? I hope you side with statistics after reading this blog. Otherwise it would mean I have failed as an educator. Well, one day I came home and found my dogs near a bunch of chewed books. To be fair, I didn’t catch them red-handed, but it was “obvious” t...

The ASU Library is pleased to announce Kerri Rittschof as the new director of its Unit for Data Science. Rittshof was previously the program manager and will now lead, plan and organize operations of the data science and analytics unit....

The Unit for Data Science is a hub for research collaborations and student mentorship. It is a one-of-a-kind resource at ASU Library. Opportunities to get involved and learn about data science are through  a free online Canvas course, a Podcast, and/or attend our open virtu...

ASU Research Computing will be sponsoring a two-day in-person  expo to prepare students, staff, and faculty for usage of the ASU supercomputer. The intent of this Expo is to inspire and motivate our research community to use Research Computing's supercomputing systems and to showcase the important a...

The data science field is rapidly expanding, but is often driven by the private sector, which monetizes data. On Wednesday, June 8, nearly 50 people from three dozen academic institutions across the country virtually attended the inaugural meeting of data science in libraries, hosted by Arizona Sta...

By  Michael Simeone  and Shawn Walker June 1, 2022 It was the spring of 2020, and the presidential election was only a few months away when Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) decided to gamble big on an all-out political offensive. From the start of the 2020 presidential election cycle, there were early sig...

Our team was approached to take part in the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) challenge during the Fall 2021 semester at Arizona State University (ASU). This competition was interested in predicting hospitalizations in children under the age of 18 with COVID. The analysi...

Photo by Riccardo Annandale on Unsplash   Web archives present opportunities to explore and enhance our understanding of our digital cultural heritage. After a quarter-century of intentional collection and curation, they offer a br...