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Huge New York Development Project Becomes A Data Science Lab
November 16, 2018 Featured by the New York Times. Hudson Yards is a huge estate development project, the largest in New York since Rockefeller Center. It is to include office towers, apartments, shops, a luxury hotel, a public school and… Continue Reading Huge New York Development Project Becomes A Data Science Lab
Hudson Yards To Become First ‘Quantified Community’
April 14, 2014 Featured by Crain’s New York. New York University is teaming up with the developers of the Hudson Yards in the hopes big data collected from the future 28-acre complex will help it run more efficiently and make… Continue Reading Hudson Yards To Become First ‘Quantified Community’
Urban Physics
March 4, 2014 Opinion editorial featured by APS News. While physics is a science, it is also a set of tools and a state of mind. Physicists have repeatedly found intellectual and practical benefit in applying their methods to new… Continue Reading Urban Physics
Steven Koonin’s Growing Army Of Big-Data Wizards Is Out To Make New York A Better City
November 16, 2018 Featured by New York Business Journal. Forget the ivory tower. Some new college programs launching in New York are tied into improving city life and boosting the economy. For example, Steven Koonin, director of Center for Urban Science… Continue Reading Steven Koonin’s Growing Army Of Big-Data Wizards Is Out To Make New York A Better City
A School Devoted Entirely To The ‘Science Of Cities’
November 16, 2018 Featured by The Atlantic’s CityLab. The Center for Urban Science and Progress, a new research center that recently welcomed its first students and faculty in downtown Brooklyn, certainly has its eyes on the city. The ceiling-high windows of the main… Continue Reading A School Devoted Entirely To The ‘Science Of Cities’
Big Data 101: How Higher Ed Is Teaching Data Science
November 16, 2018 Featured by EdTech Magazine. There’s little garnering more buzz today than Big Data. But there are clues that Big Data is more than just the latest technology fad. One such indicator is the IBM Academic Initiative. Big Blue… Continue Reading Big Data 101: How Higher Ed Is Teaching Data Science
Hottest Job Of The 21st Century? Bet On This
Data Scientists have been named the sexiest job of the 21st century, and are so in demand that there won’t be enough of them to fill every position by 2018, according to a report by McKinsey Global Institute.
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Life In The City Is Essentially One Giant Math Problem
November 16, 2018 Featured by Smithsonian Magazine. Glen Whitney stands at a point on the surface of the Earth, north latitude 40.742087, west longitude 73.988242, which is near the center of Madison Square Park, in New York City. Behind him… Continue Reading Life In The City Is Essentially One Giant Math Problem
New high-tech NYU ‘genius’ school opens in downtown Brooklyn
New York University’s new Center for Urban Science & Progress unveiled its new Downtown Brooklyn office that includes 26,000 square feet of office space, work stations for visiting faculty, and two huge “visualization labs.” Continue Reading New high-tech NYU ‘genius’ school opens in downtown Brooklyn
NYC ‘Urban Informatics’ Program Readies For Start
November 16, 2018 Featured by the Washington Examiner. A new New York City graduate program aimed at applying information technology to urban problems is gearing up to admit its first class this summer. The New York University-led Center for Urban… Continue Reading NYC ‘Urban Informatics’ Program Readies For Start
NYU Opens New ‘Urban Informatics’ School In Downtown Brooklyn
November 16, 2018 Featured by DNAInfo. Officials cut a ribbon Thursday to open New York University’s new Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) in Downtown Brooklyn. The center, which will focus on addressing the challenges cities face as their populations grow,… Continue Reading NYU Opens New ‘Urban Informatics’ School In Downtown Brooklyn
Executive Perspective: Steven Koonin At NYU Finds Pathway From Energy Innovation To Energy Transformation
November 16, 2018 Featured by Thomson Reuters. There are compelling reasons to improve our energy system – to increase accessibility, affordability and reliability and to reduce environmental impacts. Yet the energy system has historically evolved much more slowly than other… Continue Reading Executive Perspective: Steven Koonin At NYU Finds Pathway From Energy Innovation To Energy Transformation
SimCity, For Real: Measuring An Untidy Metropolis
NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress (NYU-CUSP) develops a “science of cities.” A public-private partnership between the city of New York and NYU-CUSP will use big data to tackle urban issues and help build better “SimCities.” Continue Reading SimCity, For Real: Measuring An Untidy Metropolis
Big Data Can Turn Real Estate Industry On Its Head: A Dispatch From NYU’s Schack Institute Conference
November 16, 2018 Featured by The Real Deal. Big data — the collection of large and complex data sets — can transform building construction and management, investment, leasing and even government policy, according to scholars and experts on sustainable real… Continue Reading Big Data Can Turn Real Estate Industry On Its Head: A Dispatch From NYU’s Schack Institute Conference
A First Look At NYU’s Big Data Campus
November 16, 2018 Featured by Crain’s New York. When real estate broker Misha Chiporukha leaves his Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, apartment on Livingston Street and Flatbush Avenue, he is bombarded with New York noises: Buses exhale at the stop in front… Continue Reading A First Look At NYU’s Big Data Campus