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Celebrating the launch of UMD’s new major in Social Data Science

The Art of Skepticism in a Data Driven World Celebrating Social Data Science with Dr. Jevin West Hosted by Katie Shilton and Brian Kim, co-directors of UMD’s new major in Social Data Science Wednesday, March 30th at 3:00pm ESTOnline via Zoom To celebrate the launch of UMD’s new major in Social Data Science, join us…

UMD survey offers real-time data-driven glimpse into Ukrainian well-being

The Global Covid-19 Trends and Impact Survey (CTIS), in partnership with Meta, which has been collecting data from around the world since April 2020 to inform stakeholders and public health officials of the pandemic’s spread, is now shedding new light on how Ukrainians’ health and well-being has been impacted by Russia’s attack.  The CTIS’ measures…

SoDa Symposium: Universal Adaptability – A Target-Independent Approach to Inference

A Panel Discussion with Q&A Tuesday, March 8, 2022 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST The slides can be found here. Presenters: Christoph Kern, Ph.D. University of Mannheim (Postdoc) University of Maryland (Research Assistant Professor) Michael P. Kim Miller Institute at UC Berkeley (Postdoc) Moderator: Frauke Kreuter, Ph.D. Universal adaptability: Target-independent inference that competes with…

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DC DataFest 2022

Event Date and Time: Weekend of April 22–24 Location : Virtual/Washington DC About DataFestThe 2022 DC DataFest is a 48-hour competition where teams of undergraduate students from the DC metro area compete virtually to analyze rich, complex data sets from a major organization. Students are allowed just two slides to convince the judges that they…

SoDa Symposium: Trustworthiness in Social Data Science: Excavating Awareness and Power

SoDa Symposium: Trustworthiness in Social Data Science: Excavating Awareness and Power Presented by: Pervasive Data Ethics (PERVADE) A SoDa Presentation with Q&A February 08, 2022 – Tuesday 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST Data science researchers using data about people face a significant challenge: we largely don’t agree on norms or practices for ethical and trustworthy…

Global COVID-19 Survey by UMD, Facebook Earns Likes

A survey launched by a team of researchers from the Joint Program in Survey Methodology, College of Information Studies and Department of Geographical Sciences at the pandemic’s onset proves it can function as an early warning system for changes in outbreaks. Survey Launched at Pandemic’s Onset Proves It Can Function as Early Warning System for…

Call for Abstracts – iFARM Workshop

Closing date: December 13, 2021 Conference Registration Opens for Presenters: February 8, 2022 Conference Registration Opens for Non-Presenting Participants: August 20, 2022 Workshop: October 20-21, 2022 (rescheduled from April 2022 in order to accommodate an in person event) We are excited to announce that abstract submissions are open for a new workshop titled “International Food…

SoDa Symposium: How Businesses Leverage Data to Engage Customers and Employees

SoDa Symposium: How Businesses Leverage Data to Engage Customers and Employees Presented by: Smith Analytics Consortium (SAC) a SoDa Affiliate Organization December 07, 2021- Tuesday 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST The mission of the Smith Analytics Consortium is to inspire and facilitate innovation in analytics among students, faculty, and the larger business community by providing opportunities…

SoDa Symposium: Quantitative Methodology with Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation

Presented by the Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation program in the College of Education, a SoDa Center Affiliate Organization Tuesday, November 9, 2021 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST The Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation program in the College of Education offers PhD and MS degrees as well as certificate, focused solely on quantitative methodology. Although the…

SoDa Symposium: Big data and Small Experiments: Navigating theory building in a world with too much information

SoDa Symposium: Big data and Small Experiments: Navigating theory building in a world with too much informationPresented by the Interdisciplinary Lab for Computational Social Science (iLCSS),a SoDa Center Affiliate Organization 12:00 – 1:00 PM EST October-12, 2021 (The link for registration is at the bottom of the page ) The iLCSS members will present three projects, followed…


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