Our own Shawn Walker will be speaking at a forum at the New America Foundation on the January 6 attacks on the Capitol. The event is online at noon eastern on June 24. Registration may be found here. (Picture from REUTERS/Cheney Orr)
Arizona State University- April 9, 2021New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Science 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM – Registration/Check in 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM – Event on Zoom Open to Current College & University students, Business and Industry professionals You are invited to Arizona State University’s virtual Machine Learning Read more…
Kelley Cotter has coauthored, with Mel Medeiros, Chankyung Pak, and Kjerstin Thorson, a new article entitled “‘Reach the right people’: The politics of ‘interests’ in Facebook’s classification system for ad targeting” that appears in Big Data & Society: Political campaigns increasingly rely on Facebook for reaching their constituents, particularly through Read more…
Welcome to our new Social Data Science website. You may find pieces here familiar. Hope you will bear with us as we build it out. (If you would like to help with that, don’t hesitate to reach out!)
Data and Society faculty Alex Halavais and Nick Proferes are teaching three graduate seminars this fall. Two are sequential, in sessions A and B on the downtown campus. The third is in session A and in hybrid format, with meetings on West campus and online. All three of these courses Read more…
Next meeting March 11, 1-2pm Mountain The next meeting of the B2C2 Reading Group (organized by Profs. Perla Vargas and Nick Proferes) will be discussing “New Frontiers in Ambulatory Assessment: Big Data Methods for Capturing Couples’ Emotions, Vocalizations, and Physiology in Daily Life.” Please contact the organizers to be added Read more…
On March 17, at 2-3pm Mountain Time (21:00 GMT), Alex Hanna is scheduled to speak as part of the B2C2 series. Dr. Hanna is part of the Ethical AI Team at Google. Her talk is entitled “Beyond Bias: Algorithmic Unfairness, Infrastructure, and Genealogies of Data.” Problems of algorithmic bias are Read more…