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Social solutions for socio-economic issues

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Social solutions for socio-economic issues Published: Extreme poverty is a global issue that affects hundreds of millions of people. He hopes that this programme will help to encourage economic growth in the poverty-stricken communities of rural New England, so that the people who live there can attain a better quality of life.

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The Role of Mathematics in Education

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Finance and Economics: The Art of Numbers In the realms of finance and economics, mathematics is the brush with which professionals paint the picture of the market’s future. The development of new medical treatments often involves complex data analysis, making mathematics a crucial element in the quest to save lives.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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However, Dr Emil Temnyalov , an economist at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, highlights the effects of socio-economic influences on these scores. While these are the areas of economics commonly in the news, the field is so much broader than this. Stock markets, unemployment, inflation and recession?

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Is Psychology STEM? Here’s What You Should Know

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STEM places emphasis on communication, collaboration, research, critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity. Furthermore, every psychology student is required to take courses in research methods and data analysis to graduate. Data Analysis requires a great deal of mathematics and calculations.

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Fire trackers: how can we use modelling techniques to predict where wildfires will occur?

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Researchers from the FLARE Wildfire Research Group at The University of Melbourne in Australia are developing models that can help predict where wildfires are most likely to occur and how fires behave under different weather conditions. Long-lasting economic impacts can put huge pressure on local communities.

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Data Science is Needed in the Classroom

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For example, explaining how a math equation could help keep a company from going bankrupt or how scientific data analysis can help find cures provide the real-world application students need to make a connection to their possibilities. Bringing Data Science to Underrepresented Students. Moving Forward.

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How can we make future places healthier spaces?

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This project is investigating how computing, the internet of things and data science can generate information that people can use to make their future places healthier. DATA SCIENCE – encompasses preparing data for analysis, including cleansing, aggregating and manipulating the data to perform advanced data analysis.

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