Yale University has launched a campus-wide initiative that will unite institutional leadership and academic experts across the natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, professional schools, and the humanities in an intensive effort to tackle the...
Elisa Celis doesn’t see any reason why artificial intelligence (AI) can’t reflect a society’s best values, as well as its commercial interests.
It’s the idea at the heart of her efforts as a data scientist: Fairness and inclusion can be written into...
From quantifying the wisdom of crowds to measuring polarization in political speech, data science is enhancing a wide range of social science research.
On Oct. 20, Yale held its first Data Science Workshop, a daylong event focused on computational social...
This week a group of U.S. senators highlighted the research of Yale sociologist Justin Farrell and others during discussion of a proposed resolution to condemn what they called a “web of denial” on issues including climate change.Yale sociologist Justin...
A new study finds that children who received expanded Medicaid benefits in the 1980s and 1990s contributed more to the U.S. tax system as adults. They also were more likely to attend college and less likely to die prematurely in adulthood.The study is...
