Chris Wiggins (data scientist)

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Chris Wiggins
Born1971  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Alma mater
Occupation Mathematician, scientist, university teacher  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Employer Columbia University
Known forco-founding hackNY
Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times

Chris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University. [1] In 2010 he co-founded hackNY, a nonprofit organization focused on connecting students with startups in New York City. [2] Since 2014, he has been the Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times . [3] [4]

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Career

In 2017, Chris Wiggins, along with Matthew L. Jones, introduced a new course to Columbia called "Data: Past, Present, Future". [5] The course syllabus, lectures, labs, and resources are available online. [6]

Notable works

Awards

In 2007, he received the Janette and Armen Avanessians Diversity Award at Columbia University. [8]

Bibliography

References

  1. "Chris H. Wiggins". datascience.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  2. Ovide, Shira (2015-02-02). "Steering Grads to Start-Ups - WSJ". Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 2015-02-02. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  3. Hunter, Leah (2014-07-24). "New York Times Chief Data Scientist Chris Wiggins On The Way We Create And Consume Content Now". Fast Company. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  4. "NY Times Taps Prof. Wiggins as Chief Data Scientist". Columbia Engineering. 2017-01-31. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
  5. "How the Core Curriculum Inspired the NYT's Chief Data Scientist's Latest Project". Columbia Daily Spectator. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  6. "data: past, present, and future". data-ppf.github.io. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  7. Margolin, Adam A.; Nemenman, Ilya; Basso, Katia; Wiggins, Chris; Stolovitzky, Gustavo; Favera, Riccardo Dalla; Califano, Andrea (2006-03-20). "ARACNE: An Algorithm for the Reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Networks in a Mammalian Cellular Context". BMC Bioinformatics. 7 (1): S7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-S1-S7 . ISSN   1471-2105. PMC   1810318 . PMID   16723010.
  8. "Wiggins Wins Avanessians Diversity Award". apam.columbia.edu. 28 April 2017. Retrieved 2020-02-08.
  9. "Data Science in Context: Foundations, Challenges, Opportunities". Columbia University Data Science Institute. 2022-05-27. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
  10. Greenawalt, Marc (2022-12-02). "Spring 2023 Announcements: Science". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2022-12-14.