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Data & SocietyJoin us for a discussion about the various ways that newsrooms use data and data-analysis in their reporting, with a special focus on data-driven investigations. Read moreJanuary 2015 -
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Data & SocietyDr. Stevens briefly shares the findings from her recent study examining social media use among African American and Latino youth living in disadvantaged urban neighborhoods. Read moreJanuary 2015 -
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Data & SocietyA defining characteristic of journalism’s transition to the digital age is the ability to track and quantify audiences’ responses to online news content in real time. Read moreDecember 2014 -
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Data & SocietyCathy O’Neil on Mathematical models and what we can learn from the financial crisis. Read moreDecember 2014 -
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Data & SocietyMary Madden (Pew Research Center’s Internet Project) on Public Perceptions of Privacy and Security in the Post-Snowden Era: Read moreNovember 2014 -
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Data & SocietyJake Porway, Founder and Executive Director of DataKind, talks about DataKind’s work applying data science in the social sector, how data scientists can use their skills to give back, and the potential ethical implications of these projects. Read moreNovember 2014 -
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Data & SocietyChris Whong explains how and why he used FOIL to get NYC taxi trip data, how and why he shared it publicly when nobody else had before, and where it’s gone since he shared it. Read moreNovember 2014 -
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Data & SocietyBig social data, such as that produced by Facebook and Twitter, have the potential to transform the social sciences and lead to advances in understanding human behavior. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyChris Wiggins discusses how his earlier research on applications of machine learning in biology has influenced his work on advancing the field of data science by improving ties between industry and academia. Read moreOctober 2014 -
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Data & SocietyAnoush Tatevossian, Alex Rutherford, and Mila Romanoff — multi-disciplinary team from UN Global Pulse walk through the data science, privacy, and partnership considerations which go into conducting an applied research project utilizing big data (such as social media, mobile phone data, etc.) for global development topics. Read moreOctober 2014