Category: Public Health & Wellness
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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…
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Natural Language Processing for Peer Support in Online Mental Health Communities
Project leads: Tim Althoff, Assistant Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington; and Dave Atkins, Research Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington Data science lead: Valentina Staneva DSSG fellows: Shweta Chopra, David Nathan Lang, Kelly McMeekin Project Summary: Everyone encounters challenges in life – whether that includes stress from school or work or more significant problems…
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Mining Online Data for Early Identification of Unsafe Food Products
Project Lead: Elaine Nsoesie, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Department of Global Health, UW Data Scientist Leads: Valentina Staneva (primary) and Joe Hellerstein (secondary) DSSG Fellows: Michael Munsell, Kiren Verma, Cynthia Vint & Kara Woo Project Goals: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 48 million people experience foodborne illness, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000…
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Assessing Community Well-being through Open Data and Social Media
Project Lead: Shelly Farnham, Third Place Technologies DSSG Fellows: Jordan Bates, Ryan Burns, Jenny Ho, Yue Zhou ALVA Students: Avery Glass, Jennifer Nino eScience Data Scientist Mentors: Bernease Herman, Bill Howe Our DSSG Fellows and ALVA students paired with Third Place Technologies to create neighborhood community report pages in the context of a hyperlocal, crowd-sourced community network. The objective was to…