{"id":211,"date":"2024-06-24T14:48:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T14:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/opendata\/?page_id=211"},"modified":"2024-06-24T14:48:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T14:48:49","slug":"2023-mit-prize-for-open-data","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/opendata\/open-data-mit-home\/mit-prize\/2023-mit-prize-for-open-data\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 MIT Prize for Open Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_200\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-200\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/11\/open-data23-143_news-copy-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/11\/open-data23-143_news-copy-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/11\/open-data23-143_news-copy-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/11\/open-data23-143_news-copy-624x416.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2023\/11\/open-data23-143_news-copy.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Bryce Vickmark.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The MIT School of Science and the MIT Libraries present the MIT Prize for Open Data to highlight the value of open data at MIT and to encourage the next generation of researchers. The following winners and honorable mentions were selected from more than 80 nominees representing all five schools, the college, and several research centers across MIT.<\/p>\n<p>2023 MIT Prize for Open Data winners and honorable mention recipients were honored at the Open Data @ MIT event held Oct. 24 at Hayden Library.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2023\/rewarding-excellence-in-open-data-1116\">Read more at MIT News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><b>Winners<\/b><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Hammaad Adam<\/b>, <i>graduate student, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS);<\/i> <b>Vinith M. Suriyakumar<\/b>; <i>graduate student, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS);<\/i> <b>Tom Pollard<\/b>, <i>research scientist, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES);<\/i> <b>Benjamin Moody<\/b>, <i>programmer analyst, IMES;<\/i> <b>Jennifer Erickson<\/b>, <i>senior fellow, Federation of American Scientists; <\/i><b>Greg Segal<\/b>; <b>Brad Adams<\/b>, <i>Southwest Transplant Alliance<\/i>; <b>Diane Brockmeier<\/b>, <i>Mid-America Transplant;<\/i> <b>Kevin Lee<\/b>, <i>Mid-America Transplant; <\/i><b>Ginny McBride<\/b>, <i>OurLegacy Organ and Tissue Donation Services; <\/i><b>Kelly Ranum<\/b>, <i>LOPA<\/i>; <b>Matthew Wadsworth<\/b>, <i>Life Connection of Ohio<\/i>; <b>Janice Whaley<\/b>, <i>Donor Network West<\/i>; <b>Ashia Wilson, <\/b><i>assistant professor, EECS;<\/i> and <b>Marzyeh Ghassemi<\/b>, <i>assistant professor, EECS and IMES<br \/>\n<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.13026\/b1c0-3506\">Organ Retrieval and Collection of Health Information for Donation (ORCHID)<\/a> is the first ever multi-center dataset dedicated to the organ procurement process. ORCHID provides researchers the first opportunity to quantitatively analyze organ procurement organization decisions and identify operational inefficiencies.<\/li>\n<li><b>Adam Atanas<\/b>, <i>postdoctoral associate, Brain and Cognitive Sciences;<\/i> and <b>Jungsoo Kim<\/b>, <i>graduate student, Brain and Cognitive Sciences<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wormwideweb.org\/\">WormWideWeb.org<\/a> allows researchers to easily browse and download one-of-a-kind datasets collecting brain-wide neural recordings of defined cells across an animal\u2019s brain, simultaneous to behavior quantification.<\/li>\n<li><b>Paul Berube<\/b>, <i>research scientist, Civil and Environmental Engineering; <\/i><strong>Steven Biller, <\/strong><i>Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College<\/i><br \/>\n\u200b\u200bUnlocking Marine Microbiomes with Open Data: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geotraces.org\/new-biogeotraces-data\/\">Open data<\/a> of genomes and metagenomes for marine ecosystems, with a focus on cyanobacteria, leverage the power of contemporaneous data from GEOTRACES and other long-standing ocean time-series programs to provide underlying information to answer questions about marine ecosystem function.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/img.jgi.doe.gov\/cgi-bin\/proportal\/main.cgi\">IMG\/Prochlorococcus Portal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbif.org\/dataset\/3de01c29-b3d4-4eeb-bd5c-b2bb475566cc\">Marine metagenomes from the bioGEOTRACES project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/sdata.2018.154\">Single cell genomes of Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus, and sympatric microbes from diverse marine environments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/sdata.2018.176\">Marine microbial metagenomes sampled across space and time<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Jack Cavanagh<\/b>, <i>research manager, J-PAL Global, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL)<\/i>; <b>Sarah Kopper,<\/b> <i>interim director of research, J-PAL Africa<\/i>; and <b>Diana Horvath<\/b>, <i>research and training associate, J-PAL Global<\/i><br \/>\nJ-PAL\u2019s Data Publication Infrastructure includes a trusted <a href=\"https:\/\/dataverse.harvard.edu\/dataverse\/jpal\">repository<\/a> containing over 130 open-access datasets from randomized controlled trials in development economics; a dedicated team of data curators to help research affiliates publish open data and replication packages; and public good <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/J-PAL\/stata_PII_scan\">coding<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/J-PAL\/Data_publication_codebook\">tools<\/a> and a suite of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.povertyactionlab.org\/resource\/data-publication\">guides<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.povertyactionlab.org\/resource\/data-de-identification\">training materials<\/a> to help other teams publish data in an efficient and ethical manner.<\/li>\n<li><b>Jerome Patrick Cruz, <\/b><i>graduate student, Political Science; <\/i><b>Philip Arnold P. Tua\u00f1o<\/b> <i>dean, Ateneo School of Government, Ateneo de Manila University;<\/i> <b>Heidi Mendoza<\/b> <i>professor of practice, Ateneo School of Government, Ateneo de Manila University;<\/i><br \/>\nand <b>Rainier Gerald Mora<\/b>, <i>graduate student, Ateneo de Manila University<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jerikdcruz\/OpenAudit\">OpenAudit<\/a> leverages advances in natural language processing and machine learning to make data in public audit reports more usable for academics, policy researchers, as well as governance practitioners, watchdogs, and reformers.<\/li>\n<li><b>Daniel Kurlander, <\/b><i>undergraduate student, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences<br \/>\n<\/i>An Interactive System for Rapidly Filtering and Displaying Images from the Rosetta Comet Mission: <a href=\"https:\/\/comet.photos\/\">This tool<\/a> allows users to rapidly access and filter images of the comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and is critical for planetary scientists to easily access and utilize the images in their research.<\/li>\n<li><b>Halie Olson<\/b>, <i>postdoctoral associate, Brain and Cognitive Sciences<br \/>\n<\/i>A functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/whsb7\/\">study<\/a> on language processing in a sample of 20 adults. The study used video clips from <i>Sesame Street<\/i> in which researchers manipulated the comprehensibility of the speech stream, allowing them to isolate a \u201clanguage response\u201d in the brain.<\/li>\n<li><b>Thomas Gonz\u00e1lez Roberts,<\/b> <i>graduate student, Aeronautics and Astronautics<\/i><i><br \/>\n<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ThomasGRoberts\/ITU-Compliance-Assessment-Monitor\">International Telecommunication Union Compliance Assessment Monitor<\/a> combats the heritage of secrecy in outer space operations by creating human- and machine-readable datasets that succinctly describe the international agreements that govern satellite operations.<\/li>\n<li><b>Melissa Kline Struhl<\/b>, <i>research scientist, Brain and Cognitive Sciences<\/i><i><br \/>\n<\/i>A free, open-source platform for remote studies with babies and children, <a href=\"https:\/\/childrenhelpingscience.com\/\">Children Helping Science<\/a> makes it possible for researchers at over 100 institutions to conduct reproducible studies. The platform includes an open review process and, in addition to the code itself, provides open resources that enable data sharing, while maintaining a secure data environment for sensitive research data.<\/li>\n<li><b><\/b><b>JS Tan,<\/b> <i>graduate student, Urban Studies and Planning; <\/i><strong>Nataliya Nedzhvetskaya, <\/strong><i>graduate student, Sociology Department, UC Berkeley<\/i><i><br \/>\n<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/data.collectiveaction.tech\/\">Collective Action in Tech Archive<\/a> is an open database of all publicly recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/collectiveaction.tech\/\">collective actions<\/a> taken by workers in the global tech industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><b>Honorable Mentions<\/b><b><\/b><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Alex Berke, Dan Calacci, Robert Mahari, Sandy Pentland, Kent Larson<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b>First large open <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/aberke\/amazon-study\">dataset<\/a> of crowdsourced consumer purchase histories<\/li>\n<li><b>Jordana Bloom<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/gtexportal.org\/home\/\">Effects<\/a> of reproductive aging on gene expression in tissues within and outside of the reproductive tract<\/li>\n<li><b>Yun Chang, Yulun Tian, Long Quang, Arthur Schang, Carlos Nieto-Granda, Jonathan How, Luca Carlone<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/web.mit.edu\/sparklab\/datasets\/KimeraMultiData\/\">Kimera-Multi Dataset<b><\/b><\/a><b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Wenhao Gao<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/tdcommons.ai\/\">Therapeutic Data Commons (TDC)<b><\/b><\/a><b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Kailin Graham, Christopher R. Knittel<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/kailingraham\/GrahamKnittel_EmploymentCarbonFootprints_Data.git\">U.S. Employment Carbon Footprints<b><\/b><\/a><b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Hannah Jacobs<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gtexportal.org\/home\/\">Naturally varying splicing<\/a> in human cohorts is widespread and can be used to interpret human disease<br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Hause Lin, Jana Lasser, Stephan Lewandowsky, Rocky Cole, Andrew Gully, David Rand, Gordon Pennycook<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b>An open-source wisdom-of-expert-crowds <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/pnasnexus\/pgad286\">dataset<\/a> for evaluating misinformation consumption and engagement<\/li>\n<li><b>Yi Liu<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b>MECP2 NeuroAtlas<\/li>\n<li><b>Cole Ruehle, Rodrigo Garza Garcia, Nicholas Liu<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lobbyview.org\">Who Are America\u2019s Lobbyists<\/a>: A comprehensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lobbyview.org\/data-download\/datasets\/lobbyist_level\">dataset<\/a> of histories, donations and influence<\/li>\n<li><b>Leonard Schrage, Zoe Le Hong<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vSXrShfgaCgKzyoy4_mkBpZkjERxikFcIZjeekGtaI1SvwNko3FgCbJpraVK4tz4Z84mqmMeGrztNjW\/pub?start=false&amp;loop=false&amp;delayms=3000\">Urban Ingredients<\/a><b><\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>C\u00e9sar Terrer<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/gcb.16585\">When things get MESI<\/a>: The Manipulation Experiments Synthesis Initiative\u2014A coordinated effort to synthesize climate change experiments<\/li>\n<li><b>Dylan Walsh<br \/>\n<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/IUPAC\/IUPAC_SMILES_plus\/tree\/spec_rev01\">Standardization<\/a> of chemical representations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><br \/>\nCo-sponsored by\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-28\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/08\/School-of-Science-logo-square-11-150x150.png\" alt=\"MIT School of Science logo\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/08\/School-of-Science-logo-square-11-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/08\/School-of-Science-logo-square-11-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/08\/School-of-Science-logo-square-11-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/08\/School-of-Science-logo-square-11-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/08\/School-of-Science-logo-square-11-624x624.png 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/08\/School-of-Science-logo-square-11.png 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-32\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/08\/MIT_LIB_LOGO_RED_RGB_P-150x150.png\" alt=\"MIT Libraries logo\" width=\"100\" height=\"122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/08\/MIT_LIB_LOGO_RED_RGB_P-246x300.png 246w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/08\/MIT_LIB_LOGO_RED_RGB_P-838x1024.png 838w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/08\/MIT_LIB_LOGO_RED_RGB_P-768x938.png 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/08\/MIT_LIB_LOGO_RED_RGB_P-624x762.png 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2022\/08\/MIT_LIB_LOGO_RED_RGB_P.png 924w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><b>2023 Committee<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Committee Co-Chairs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chris Bourg, Director, MIT Libraries<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Saxe, Associate Dean of Science, School of Science (SoS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Committee Members<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advait Athreya, graduate student, Computational &amp; Systems Biology<\/li>\n<li>Iain Cheeseman, Herman and Margaret Sokol Professor of Biology, SoS and Whitehead<\/li>\n<li>Fotini Christia, Ford International Professor in the Social Sciences, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society<\/li>\n<li>Satrajit Ghosh, McGovern Institute, SoS, and Director of Data Models and Integration, ReproNim<\/li>\n<li>William H. Green, Hoyt Hottel Professor in Chemical Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Ye Li, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering Librarian, MIT Libraries<\/li>\n<li>Nick Lindsay, Director of Journals and Open Access, MIT Press<\/li>\n<li>Jack Payette, graduate student, Earth and Planetary Sciences, SoS<\/li>\n<li>Tom Pollard, research scientist, Laboratory for Computational Physiology<\/li>\n<li>Dave Rand, Erwin H. Schell Professor and Professor of Management Science and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Sloan School of Management<\/li>\n<li>Justin Reich, associate professor of Comparative Media Studies\/Writing, director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab<\/li>\n<li>Pedro Reynolds-Cu\u00e9llar, graduate student, MIT Media Lab\/ACT<\/li>\n<li>Heather Sardis, Associate Director for Technology, MIT Libraries<\/li>\n<li>Virginia Spanoudaki, Scientific Director, Preclinical Imaging and Testing Facility, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research<\/li>\n<li>Djuna von Maydell, graduate student, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MIT School of Science and the MIT Libraries present the MIT Prize for Open Data to highlight the value of open data at MIT and to encourage the next generation of researchers. 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