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New App Helps Tracking COVID-19 Testing, Hospitalization and...

The COVID-19 Data Science project, led by Dr. Jeffrey S. Morris, focuses on reporting research results, data sets, applications and models related to COVID-19. In the light of... Read more

Rice D2K Lab Transitions Showcase to a Live, Interactive Virtual...

Rice D2K Lab and Students Step Up to the Challenge of COVID-19

The Center for Transforming Data to Knowledge, informally known as the D2K Lab, adapted to the challenges of social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic to host a virtual end of semester Showcase.

On April 22,... Read more

Congratulations to the Winners and Organizers of the Rice Datathon...

Students from Rice and elsewhere armed with laptops and sleeping bags flooded Duncan Hall on Jan. 24-25 for the second annual Rice Datathon sponsored by the Rice Data Science Club and the ... Read more

Hadley Wickham identifies good design in data science

Having hit 40, data scientist Hadley Wickham has undergone a rather hopeful and somewhat premature midlife crisis.

“I asked myself, ‘What the hell have I been doing for the last 10 years?’ The answer I came up with is I’m not doing science, I’m doing design,” said Wickham... Read more

Students: Adding 5 ambulances would aid EMS response across Houston

Rice’s Data to Knowledge team gives recommendation to Houston City Council

Adding five ambulances to southwest neighborhoods served by the Houston Fire Department (HFD) Emergency Medical Services program would cut an average of... Read more

Data Visualization Contest Winners!

Thank you to all that submitted projects to our Data Visualization Contest, and thank you to our judges Dr. Anneli Joplin, Dr. Santiago Segarra, Dr. Tracy Volz and Dr. Hadley Wickham.

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