The Data+Science Initiative

Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record After 44 years, there’s finally a better way to find approximate solutions to the notoriously difficult traveling salesperson problem.

Monte Carlo Simulation : An Astonishing Beauty of Probability You probably must have studied probability in your secondary schooling, and probably many of you must have got bored with the same subject as it is quite tricky to understand when the problems go…

In a Single Measure, Invariants Capture the Essence of Math Objects To distinguish between fundamentally different objects, mathematicians turn to invariants that encode the objects’ essential features.

What Is an Individual? Biology Seeks Clues in Information Theory. To recognize strange extraterrestrial life and solve biological mysteries on this planet, scientists are searching for an objective definition for life's basic units.

The “generation interval” of a disease, the amount of time between when one person is infected and when they infect the next person, helps researchers determine the details of an epidemic’s spread. https://www.quantamagazine.org/chasing-covid-19s-r0-and-other-numbers-that-define-epidemics-20210322/

Chasing the Elusive Numbers That Define Epidemics Most modeling efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic have sought to address urgent practical concerns. But some groups aim to bolster the theoretical underpinnings of that work instead.

Modeling viral infections using patient-specific "digital twins" could allow for more effective treatments, and could be a powerful addition to our arsenal of tools to fight future pandemics, argues a new .

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Superspreading drives the COVID pandemic — and could help to tame it Uneven transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has had tragic consequences — but also offers clues for how best to target control measures.

I Learned Data Viz in a Year, and You Can Too How I went from making simple charts to running workshops, and what I learned along the way

Pandas Sidetable: A Smarter Way of Using Pandas A great merge of value counts and cross tab functions

The statistician George E.P. Box famously said, “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” Our new video investigates how usefully wrong COVID-19 models have been and why their true value often gets lost in translation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKOslhIFt6U&feature=youtu.be