# Professor Vasant Dhar comments on a new project studying data from 10,000 New Yorkers

1 Faculty News June 19, 2017 ![Associated Press logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031530.jpg?itok=uSjLQY9n)>

Excerpt from the [Associated Press](http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/06/19/human-project-study-will-ask-10000-to-share-lifes-data.html) -- "But the $15 million-a-year Human Project is breaking ground with the scope of individual data it plans to collect simultaneously, says Dr. [Vasant Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar), editor-in-chief of the journal Big Data, which published a 2015 paper about the project. 'It is very ambitious,' the NYU information systems professor says."

[Read more](http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/06/19/human-project-study-will-ask-10000-to-share-lifes-data.html)