Category: Public Information
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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…
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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…
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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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Developing an Algorithmic Equity Toolkit with Government, Advocates, and Community Partners
Project lead: Mike Katell, PhD Candidate, UW Information School Data science lead: Bernease Herman Faculty Advisor: Peaks Krafft, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute Community Engagement Lead: Meg Young, PhD Candidate, University of Washington Information School DSSG fellows: Corinne Bintz, Vivian Guetler, Daniella Raz, Aaron Tam Project Summary: In partnership with ACLU of Washington, fellows will create an Algorithmic Equity…
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CrowdSensing Census: A heterogenous-based tools for estimating poverty
Project Lead: Afra Mashhadi, Bell Labs, Nokia Data Scientist Leads: Ariel Rokem (primary) and Jake VanderPlas (secondary) DSSG Fellows: Rachael Dottle, Myeong Lee, Imam Subkhan & Carlos Espino Project Goals: Household surveys and censuses, periodically conducted by National Statistical Institutes and the like, collect information describing the social and economic well being of a nation, as well as…
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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…