Media and Talks
This list contains only articles that are still live on the Internet. Past aired TV, Radio, or Magazine articles that are not archived are not included. A complete list is in here.
Crime Data Mining
“Possible to predict recidivism? Here's how…”: The Docket, MSNBC (TV), Tuesday May 19, 2015
"Crime-Fighting Computer Code from Cambridge Police and MIT" : Interview on WBUR (NPR) Radio Boston, August 2013
“Cambridge police look at math to solve crimes”: Boston Globe, Metro Section, front page (also link to article from Boston Globe front page), Sunday August 4 2013
“Statistician enlisted to fight crime by numbers”: The Times of London, US & Americas section, Tuesday August 6 2013
“Mapping the Future: The Power of Algorithms”: Documentary by Java Films, 2015
“Can Cops Predict Crime?”: Discovery News, December 12, 2014. (Slightly misquoted - we do consider time and space.)
Health
Do You Zone Out? Procrastinate? Might Be Adult ADHD: NPR 2017 (article about Berk Ustun's JAMA Psychiatry paper on ADHD)
How Big Data Can Be Used to Improve Early Detection of Cognitive Disease: The Health Care Blog 2015
Could a digital pen change how we diagnose brain function?: Phys.org 2015
Data-driven tool enables patients to balance recovery expectations: FierceHealthIT, July 2, 2014
Meeting Analysis
Some of the media coverage of our meetings analysis paper was pretty funny.
“At Work: Just Say 'Yeah’”: Wall Street Journal, Business Section, on page B8 in the U.S. edition, June 19, 2013
“How to sound like a boss at your next work meeting,”: Interview on Fox & Friends, Fox News, national television, 6:45AM July 3 2013
"How to be effective at meetings? Say 'yeah’: Toronto Star, Business section, June 28, 2013
'Yeah’ is the most persuasive word to use in a meeting: study says,": NY Daily News, living section, June 26, 2013
Most Persuasive Four-Letter-Word in Meetings (It's Not What You Think): Yahoo! Shine, work-money section, June 25, 2013
5 Words That Get Results Business Meetings: Yahoo! News, (also LiveScience and Business News Daily), June 21, 2013
Researchers discover the key to persuasion: ABC News, consumer report blog / business, June 24, 2013
MIT Sloan Professor's Research Identifies Top Persuasive Words in Meetings : Reuters, Businesswire
5 Important words to say in every business meeting: Business News Daily, June 20, 2013
“How To Win Over Co-Workers And Influence Meetings: Use These 3 Words”: Forbes.com, Pharma & healthcare section, June 23, 2013
“The most effective words to use at a meeting”: Fox Nation, foxnews.com, June 20, 2013
“Five words that can persuade your boss to give you a raise”: NDTV (India) June 25, 2013
Product Rankings
“How to Improve Product Rankings”: Businessweek, March 09, 2012
Power Grid Reliability
“New York's Exploding Manhole Covers Pose Unexpected Winter Hazard”: Reuters, Yahoo! News, NY Times
“Machine vs. Manhole”: U.S. News and World Report, Science News, WIRED Science, Slashdot, Discovery News
“21st-Century Data Miners Meet 19th-Century Electrical Cables”: IEEE Computer Magazine (one of three articles featured on the cover), 2011
Other
Top 40 Under 40: Poets & Quants, 2015
12 of the most impressive professors at MIT: Business Insider, 2015
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from The Docket on MSNBC |