Event Date and Time: April 14-16, 2023 Location : (HYBRID) In-person OR virtual About DataFestThe 2023 DC DataFest is a 48-hour competition where teams of undergraduate students from U.S. colleges and universities compete in-person or virtually to analyze rich, complex data sets from a major organization. Students are allowed just two slides to convince the judges that…
The Transatlantic Privacy Perceptions Panel (TAPP) and BERD@NFDI invite you to join the online discussion on perceptions, practices, and policies of digital privacy: Privacy in Practice – Enhancing Privacy Literacy through an interactive Virtual Assistant (iVA) The Diversity of Transatlantic Stakeholders’ Privacy Perceptions How to Balance Data Sharing and Data Protection in the Development and Use of Al? Jessica Vitak (University of Maryland), Leah…
12:00 – 1:00 PM EST December 13, 2022. AbstractOpen-ends are a well known problem in survey research: language can yield extremely rich responses, including bringing to the surface aspects of a question or issue that the researcher might not have known to look for, but the analysis of text is costly and labor-intensive. As a result,…
Gabriella WatersDirector of Public RelationsCenter for Equitable AI and Machine Learning Systems (CEAMLS)AI Innovation, Global Impact, Integrative InfluenceMorgan State UniversityPresenting: Reimagining Variance: AI and Neurodiverse PopulationsAbstract:Artificial intelligence (AI) has experienced exponential growth in application and innovation, and we’re only at the tip of the iceberg in exploring the many ways in which this technology can…
There is an increasing interest in food data among researchers and policymakers around the globe. This includes data about food acquisitions and purchases, nutrition, food security, food assistance, local food environments, food loss and waste, and health. To address the challenges with collecting high-quality food data, innovative techniques for data collection and processing are needed. …
WELCOME The first Social Data Science (SoDa) Center Workshop will serve as a bridge among statisticians, survey methodologists, sociologist, economist, political scientists, journalists, psychologists, information scientist among others interested in combining information from multiple databases in developing reliable inferences at granular levels. The Workshop on The Future of Measurement, Surveys and Social Data Science Research…
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Data Detectives Camp is a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) camp that focuses on statistics for rising 6th and 7th grade students. The camp has been conducted annually since 2016 as a commuter camp, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ll be holding our second virtual camp….
Meet the 2022 Award Winners! There were many qualified nominees making this year’s selection especially difficult, but our volunteer judges rose to the occasion by selecting a worthy recipient in each category. We are pleased to announce this year’s award winners! We invite you to take time to get to read more about these individual and…
Current data science projects in education research will be presented: 1) Dr. Stapleton will discuss a current AERA Research Grant aimed at measuring school quality using propensity score methods for the Baltimore City Public School System. 2) Dr. Sweet will present work on applying machine learning methods to predict high stakes test scores for student…
