Institute Hosts CS Student Poster Session: Data Mechanics

Friday, April 28, 2017
3:00 – 5:00 pm
CS Student Poster Session: Data Mechanics
Hariri Institute for Computing, 111 Cummington Mall

The Hariri Institute is pleased to host a student poster session  Friday, April 28th from 3-5PM. The event will feature 25 group projects completed by students enrolled in the spring iteration of CS 591 L1 (“Data Mechanics”), a computer science course taught by Andrei Lapets, CS Adjunct Assistant Professor and Director for Research Development and SAIL at the Hariri Institute for Computing.

Students will present posters describing projects in which they worked with real data sets from the City of Boston, Massachusetts Department of Transportation, Boston Public Schools, and a variety of other sources to build applications and services that answer questions, perform analyses, and solve optimization problems related to the organization and characterization of urban resources in Boston. The projects deal with questions related to public transportation, crime, residential development, public health, and others. All the projects were assembled within a unifying framework that tracks data provenance and allows sharing of data sets.