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Love Data Week is a weeklong series of events designed to help students, faculty, and staff better understand how data is collected, stored, interpreted, and sometimes misrepresented.

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The lauded Preceptor and Curriculum/Pedagogy Specialist in Statistics sat down with Fifteen Minutes to talk about her long-held love of teaching, the importance of good data in an increasingly ...

Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public’s trust in the Covid era. Now it’s up to outsiders to restore it.

By creating a 'little bit of the Universe in a bottle' in her lab, a PhD student in physics has reverse-engineered the ...