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Traffic, transit data paint a picture of COVID-19 impacts
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Data science faculty member Shashi Shekhar is using spatial data to understand how people responded to the pandemic.
New project creates 'first-ever traveling studio for indigenous co-design of spatial interfaces'
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The project ‘Mixed Reality Spatial Interaction for Diverse Communities’ aims to get technology into community hands while accounting for pandemic restrictions.
Linking brain function to adolescent suicide risk
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Suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents in the U.S. and often preceded by bouts of depression. A new study co-led by the School of Public Health is looking at the emergence of depression and suicide risk in thousands of adolescents and how it relates to the behavior of specific brain regions over time.
From academic conferences to the classroom
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Learn more about Qian Qin, an assistant professor in the School of Statistics and a member of the data science graduate faculty.
Fighting COVID-19 with deep graphs
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U of M team has partnered with other institutions to create a knowledge graph and a set of machine learning tools to find new uses for existing drugs.
Computing COVID-19
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Location data collected by smartphones could allow health officials to monitor the disease—as well as assist with contact tracing.
The beauty of the numbers
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To be a statistician, it's also helpful to have curiosity or interest in lots of different fields, because then, as a statistician working on projects, you can get familiar with different fields like physics, like economics.