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Social science research could hugely benefit from tapping into online communities and big data to learn more about social interaction and structure.

Summer course online and at Stanford on big data STARTS ONLINE JUNE 12, 2017 AT STANFORD JULY 25-28, 2017 How is big data transforming our world and changing business, government, and civil society?

Jennifer Widom, a professor of computer science and of electrical engineering at Stanford University for 24 years, has been named dean of the School of Engineering, Provost Persis Drell announced Monday.

A new course in the School of Earth, Energy, & Environmental Sciences uses big data from sources like archives, satellites, smart phones and remote-sensing devices to explore how new techniques advance research on water resources, sustainable food production, renewable energy and more.

For years people have believed that opposites attract, but recent research from Stanford GSB assistant professor Michal Kosinski uses big data gleaned from Facebook to develop a more detailed picture of personalities and discovered that friends and partners are more similar than we thought. 

New research shows people in underdeveloped parts of the world are not as likely to complete massive open online courses, or MOOCs. But small psychological activities could help motivate them, closing the global achievement gap, according to Rene Kizilcec, graduate student in communication.

Stanford researchers are using deep learning to detect diabetic retinopathy, one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide.

Despite the large number of fake news stories favoring Donald Trump that circulated during the election, they were viewed by a relatively small group of people. Stanford economist and affiliate of the Center for Computational Social Science, Matt Gentzkow, discusses how false news may not have been as influential as we thought. 

The NIH Big Data to Knowledge program is pleased to announce the BD2K Guide to the Fundamentals of Data Science, a series of online lectures given by experts from across the country covering a range of diverse topics in data science.  This course is an introductory overview that assumes no prior knowledge or understanding of data scie

Stanford researchers show that telephone metadata – information about calls and text messages, such as time and length – can alone reveal a surprising amount of personal detail. The work could help inform future policies for government surveillance and consumer data privacy.