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TAMIDS has announced the awards for seven projects under its Data Science Course Development Grant Program. The program, developed in association with the Texas A&M Center for Teaching Excellence, provides support to faculty for developing new courses in Data Science, or redesigning existing courses to include Data Science components. Read more

Christi Retzer joined TAMIDS as Program Coordinator II on February 1, 2021. Christi will coordinate TAMIDS Educational Programs, including the new MS in Data Science program which will welcome its first cohort of students in Fall 2021. Christi has been working in higher education for the past twelve years. Welcome Christi! Jennifer South has been… Read more

In the 2021 Data Science Competition, student teams will develop models to predict the impact on electoral outcomes of contributions and spending by campaigns and donors, and use these to develop recommendations for where funds should be directed. Students will be encouraged to identify metrics for effectiveness of donations and campaign spending. What characterizes the… Read more

The Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS) solicits proposals to establish Labs operating under the auspices of TAMIDS in emerging areas of Data Science (DS), here understood as including the foundations and applications of the associated fields of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. The mission of each Lab will be to develop knowledge, resources,… Read more

Research Workshop Grants Program Instructional Workshop and Tutorial Program Education Support Programs Data Science Course Development Program Awards, 2021 Research Support Programs Data Resource Development Program Awards, 2020 Postdoctoral Project Read more

Dr. Nick Duffield, TAMIDS Director, welcomes three new postdoctoral researchers for Fall 2020. Dr. Yalong Pi will join the Operational Data Science Lab. Dr. Jisu Cao (Mays Business School) and Dr. Liang Ding (Industrial and Systems Engineering) are partially supported by TAMIDS and will contribute to TAMIDS research, education and enablement programs. Read more

TAMIDS is delighted to report that Dr. Yu Ding, Mike and Sugar Barnes Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and TAMIDS Associate Director for Research Engagement, has received the Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Research. Read more

Six teams of Texas A&M University students shared $6,000 in prizes during a data science competition hosted by the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science. The competition required students to analyze airline data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics to develop measures and models to forecast the expected performance of airlines. Read more

Dr. Nick Duffield, Director of the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science (TAMIDS), is excited to announce the inaugural awardees of the TAMIDS Data Resource Development Program. The program supports work that will enable, promote and increase the usage of data resources and tools that can exploit them for research at Texas A&M. Read more

List of all TAMIDS events 4/25/2022; TAMIDS Seminar; Online Monitoring of Big Data Streams–Roadmap and Recent Advances, Kaibo Liu, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Presentation Slides, Video. 4/18/2022; TAMIDS Seminar; Online Nonnegative Read more