Category: DSSG Project

• Generating regionally integrative datasets to understand groundwater insecurities in the Colorado River Basin

  

  Project leads: Akshay Mehra, Assistant Professor of UW Earth and Space Sciences, and Sameer Shah, Assistant Professor of UW Environmental and Forest Sciences Data scientist: Vaughn Iverson DSSG fellows: Yuanning Huang, Kimberly Kreiss, Maia Powell, and Aanchal Setia. Get the participant bios here. The Colorado River Basin (CRB) is experiencing unprecedented water scarcity. Arguably, the CRB is an…

• Heating Pumps in Alaska and Beyond

  

  Project leads: Erin Trochim, Research Assistant Professor, Alaska Center for Energy and Power, University of Alaska Fairbanks Data scientist: Maddie Gaumer DSSG fellows: Aminat Adefolu, Silas Gifford, Katherine Grisanzio, and Brian Leung. Get the participant bios here. Decarbonization, a pressing global issue, necessitates the transition from carbon-intensive power to net-zero sources. The Arctic is an area of particular concern,…

• Exploring new understandings of the cost of living at a basic needs level using the Self-Sufficiency Standard database

  

  Project leads: Annie Kucklick, Research Coordinator, and Lisa Manzer, Director, Center for Women’s Welfare, University of Washington School of Social Work Data scientist: Bryna Hazelton DSSG fellows: Azizakhon Mirsaidova, Priyana Patel, Cheng Ren, Hector Sosa. Get the participant bios here. Project Summary: The best-known measure of income adequacy, the Official Poverty Measure, (OPM) is too low with flawed and…

• Tracking family and intergenerational poverty using administrative data

  

  Project leads: Jennie Romich, Professor of Social Welfare at the UW School of Social Work and Faculty Director of the West Coast Poverty Center Data scientist: Jessica Godwin DSSG fellows: Zhaowen Guo, Ihsan Kahveci, Betelhem Aklilu Muno, Eliot Stanton Participant bios available here. Project Summary: This project will examine whether the Seattle $15 minimum wage policy reduced poverty or affected intergenerational economic…

• Satellite Streaks in Astronomical Images

  

  Project leads: Dino Bektešević, Graduate Student, Department of Astronomy; and Meredith Rawls, Research Scientist, Department of Astronomy, and Data-intensive Research And Cosmology (DiRAC) Fellow, University of Washington Data scientist: Vaughn Iverson DSSG fellows: Abhilash Biswas, Kilando Chambers, Ashley Santos Participant bios available here. Project Summary: We are on the cusp of fundamentally altering the night sky, which has been a source…

• Heating Loads in Alaska and Beyond

  

  Project leads: Erin Trochim, Research Assistant Professor, Alaska Center for Energy and Power, University of Alaska Fairbanks Data scientist: Nicholas Bolten DSSG fellows: Vidisha Chowdhury, Maddie Gaumer, Philippe Schicker, Shamsi Soltani Alaska– and the wider Arctic region– have experienced accelerated effects of climate change over the past decade. Rapid decarbonization of energy is a critical step for mitigating…

• Developing Ensemble Methods for Initial Districting Plan Evaluation

  

  Project leads: Daryl DeFord, Assistant Professor of Data Analytics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Washington State University Data scientists: Bernease Herman and Vaughn Iverson DSSG fellows: Rowana Ahmed, Katherine Chang, Ryan Goehrung, Michael Souffrant. Get the participant bios here. Project Summary: Gerrymandering, the drawing of legislative boundaries for improper purposes, is a fundamental threat to…

• Geography, Equity, and the Seattle $15 Minimum Wage Ordinance

  

  Project leads: Jennie Romich, Professor of Social Welfare at the UW School of Social Work and Faculty Director of the West Coast Poverty Center Data scientists: Jose Hernandez and Valentina Staneva DSSG fellows: Lamar Foster, Delaney Glass, Christopher Salazar, Mahader Tamene Participant bios available here. Project Summary: This project examines the minimum wage as a solution to income inequality – and one potential…

• Detecting of Vote Dilution: New tools and methods for protecting voting rights

  

  Project leads: Matt A. Barreto, Professor of Political Science and Chicana/o Studies, and Faculty Director of the Voting Rights Project at University of California, Los Angeles; and Loren Collingwood, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at University of California, Riverside Data scientists: Scott Henderson and Spencer Wood DSSG fellows: Juandalyn Burke, Ari Decter-Frain, Hikari Murayama, Pratik Sachdeva Participant…

• Identifying Coronavirus Disinformation on Websites

  

  Project leads: Maggie Engler, Lead Data Scientist, and Lucas Wright, Senior Researcher, at the Global Disinformation Index (GDI) Data scientists: Noah Benson and Vaughn Iverson DSSG fellows: George Hope Chidziwisano, Richa Gupta, Kseniya Husak, Maya Luetke Participant bios available here. Project Summary: Online disinformation has been used as a tool to weaponize mass influence and disseminate propaganda. To combat disinformation, we need…