Data & Analysis

One of the most pressing issues facing the news & media today is how to navigate and define journalism’s evolving relationship with giant actors in the platform economy like Facebook, Google. As the 2016 presidential election and the skyrocketing of fake news show, these platforms wield enormous power in shaping the societal dialogue around critical issues, and publishers must grapple with the ramifications of being disintermediated.

On October 11th, 2017 the Digital Seminar series hosted Anja Lambrecht from London Business School. Anja gave a talk called “Algorithmic Bias? An Empirical Study into Apparent Gender-Based Discrimination in the Display of STEM Career Ads.”

The advent of Google Street View and machine learning algorithms has enabled us to study urban change in a way that’s unlike anything we’ve quite seen before. In this joint study between HBS, Harvard, and MIT, researchers demonstrate how cities evolve and why it underscores the importance of human capital and education in defining urban outcomes.

On October 8th, 2014 the Digital Seminar series hosted Hilary Mason from Fast Forward Labs. Hilary gave a talk called “Innovation through Data.”

Want to make city data more personal and tell a more compelling story to its citizens? Turn it into art! Beyond the obvious cool factor and pleasing aesthetics, this approach highlights the importance of curating data to effectively convey its meaning to an audience.

This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative’s classroom blogging platform. Can big data revolutionize even the fine arts? Today, the number of people in the U.S. who buy art as a percentage of people who can afford art is 3%. Carter Cleveland’s vision is to increase that number by an order of magnitude. […]

This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative’s classroom blogging platform. See how a 179-year-old company has created the go-to platform for the agricultural industry, allowing John Deere to compete against both other farm equipment manufacturers as well as new Ag Tech entrants. John Deere is the number one farm equipment manufacturer in the […]

On March 8th, 2017 the Digital Seminar series hosted Andrew Mao from Aarhus University. Andrew gave a talk called “Studying Teamwork and Cooperation in the Virtual Lab.”

Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg explore data visualization’s many applications — from analytics to art.

People analytics (the reflexive use of big data within organizations to drive decision making) has the potential to transform the way we manage and lead from altering hiring practices to workload assessment and collaboration. From our 2017 Digital Transformation Summit, Professor Jeff Polzer leads a panel discussion exploring the state of this new field and what it means for managers — and employees — across the board.