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2026 Sports Data Challenge Winners!
Last week, we hosted our 2026 Data Challenge Final Event. This year’s theme was sports data as part of a collaboration with the Texas A&M Collaborative for Sport Data Science (CSDS). Over the last seven weeks, teams of undergraduate and graduate students worked to create data visualizations that told a story using data from past… Read more
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Text Mining Workshop Series
The Text Mining Workshop Series is a four-part, hands-on tutorial program designed to introduce social science researchers to computational text analysis, from foundational concepts to advanced modeling techniques. Led by TAMIDS’s Data Science Ambassadors, the series begins with an accessible introduction to text mining, its complement to traditional qualitative methods, and its value for social… Read more
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The 2026 Data Challenge is Here!
This year’s theme? Sports Data! Read more
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GAIRE Program Award Recipients
Ten Projects Selected for GAIRE Program The Generative AI Research for Education (GAIRE) Program is a collaboration between Texas A&M’s Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS) and Center for Teaching Excellence, and is supported through OpenAI’s NextGenAI Consortium. GAIRE operates under the Generative AI Literacy Initiative at TAMIDS and aims to create AI literacy materials, integrate… Read more
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RAISE AI Bridge @ Texas A&M
Seed Grant Proposals Due February 23 A one-week training and team-formation summit and linked seed grant initiative to catalyze interdisciplinary teams, translate advanced AI into novel solutions, and support seed projects for future extramural funding. MISSION To bridge foundational and use-inspired AI research across Texas A&M by pairing AI method experts with domain researchers in… Read more
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Welcoming TAMIDS’ New 2025 Fellows
TAMIDS is proud to announce the addition of three new fellows, Dr. Thanos Gentimis, Drs. Hadi Salman, and Reid Powell! Dr. Thanos Gentimis Research Coordination Fellow Dr. Gentimis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Texas A&M University and leads the Group for AI in Agriculture (GAIA). With a Ph.D.… Read more
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TAMIDS’s Early Career Grants Drive Transformative Research at Texas A&M
The Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS) is at the forefront of fostering groundbreaking research through its Early Career Collaboration Grant program. One year after receiving this grant, several promising projects from our 2024 cycle have achieved significant milestones, demonstrating how strategic investment in early-career faculty is yielding innovative solutions across critical sectors, including… Read more
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MSDS Applications Open for Fall 2026 Semester
Want to take your data science skills to the next level? Apply to our M.S. in Data Science Program today! Applications for the Fall 2026 cohort of the Master of Science in Data Science (MSDS) program are officially open! The Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS) collaborates with the Departments of Computer Science and… Read more
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Spring 2025 Semester Wrap-Up
With the spring semester behind us, we’re reflecting on an exciting and eventful few months. TAMIDS hosted multiple events, workshops, seminars, and our annual highlight — the Student Data Challenge. We’re grateful to all the students who participated and to the faculty who helped make these outreach opportunities possible. This year’s Student Data Challenge was… Read more
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2025 Data Science Course Development Awardees
The Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS) has announced six faculty awards that will support the creation of new courses and materials to expand AI, Data Science, and Machine Learning literacy at Texas A&M. The TAMIDS Data Science Course Development Grant Program is offered in association with the Texas A&M Center for Teaching Excellence and offers… Read more