Issue 6.3, Summer 2024

From the Editor-in-Chief

From COVID-19 to GPT-4o: The Groundbreaking Quinquennium for Harvard Data Science Review (and Humanity)

by Xiao-Li Meng

Issue 6.3/ Summer 2024

Panorama

Overviews, Visions, and Debates

Amid Advancement, Apprehension, and Ambivalence: AI in the Human Ecosystem

by Francine Berman, David Banks, Michael I. Jordan, Sabina Leonelli, and Martha Minow

An interview with David Banks, Michael Jordan, Sabina Leonelli, and Martha Minow by Francine Berman.

Data Scientists Discuss AI Risks and Opportunities

by David Banks, Gerard de Melo, Sam (Xinwei) Gong, Yongchan Kwon, and Cynthia Rudin

Large Language Models: Trust and Regulation

by David Banks, Costanza Bosone, Bob Carpenter, Tarak Shah, and Claudia Shi

An interview with Costanza Bosone, Bob Carpenter, Tarak Shah, and Claudia Shi by David Banks

Data Science and AI in Context: Summary and Insights

by Alfred Spector

Cornucopia

Impact, Innovation, and Knowledge Transfer

A Self-Supervised Algorithm for Denoising Photoplethysmography Signals for Heart Rate Estimation From Wearables

by Pranay Jain, Cheng Ding, Cynthia Rudin, and Xiao Hu

Stepping Stones

Learning, Teaching, and Communication

Data Science Learning in Grades K–12: Synthesizing Research Across Divides

by Joshua Rosenberg and Ryan Seth Jones

In-Class Data Analysis Replications: Teaching Students While Testing Science

by Kristina Gligorić, Tiziano Piccardi, Jake M. Hofman, and Robert West

Milestones and Millstones

Foundations, Theories, and Methods

Differentially Private Linear Regression With Linked Data

by Shurong Lin, Elliot Paquette, and Eric D. Kolaczyk

Effective Policy Learning

Data Science for Policy Making and Makers

Column Co-Editors: Nancy Potok and Nick Dudley Ward

How To Foster a Civic Research Community: Lessons From Greater Boston's Annual Insight-to-Impact Summit

by Daniel T. O’Brien and Kimberly D. Lucas

Meta Data Science

A Philosophical Column

Column Co-Editors: Sabina Leonelli and Hanti Lin

To Be a Frequentist or Bayesian? Five Positions in a Spectrum

by Hanti Lin

Minding the Future

Building Pipelines for Data Science

Column Editor: Nicole Lazar

Bringing Students’ Lives Into Data Science Classrooms

by David Weintrop and Rotem Israel-Fishelson

Reinforcing Reproducibility and Replicability

A Path to Better (Data) Science

Column Editor: Lars Vilhuber

We Should Do More Direct Replications in Science

by Stuart Buck

Bits and Bites

Is ChatGPT More Biased Than You?

by Golnoosh Babaei, David Banks, Costanza Bosone, Paolo Giudici, and Yunhong Shan