SoDa Symposium: Prompt Engineering to Support AI Enabled Research A webinar presentation and discussant followed by Q&A presented on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 12 pm – 1 pm (Online) REGISTER HERE! Abstract: Generative AI tools are an increasingly integral part of the social science research process. AI tools can be used to support idea…
A SoDa | ASA Symposium: In Celebration of Privacy Week, a conversation with Prof. Rochelle E. Tractenberg and Prof. Dr. Ivan Habernal Co-Sponsored by the American Statistical Association and the UMD Social Data Science Center Two Talks with Q&A presented on Tuesday, January 28, 2025 From Dialogue to Data: How Statisticians Can Safeguard Privacy and…
Fall Executive Certificate in Data Literacy & Evidence Building The Executive Certificate in Data Literacy and Evidence Building at the University of Maryland’s Social Data Science Center in conjunction with the Coleridge Initiative and the Kentucky Center for Statistics is a not-for-credit certificate program that trains participants in valuable data literacy skills and how to…
Date: May 7, 2024 Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm Location: Zoom WATCH VIDEO! Project Title: Correlating Population Demographics with Maryland’s County-Level Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities Abstract: Local government-controlled critical infrastructure relies on computer systems and is increasingly vulnerable to cyber-attacks that can disrupt its operation impacting citizens’ daily lives. While some research has looked at user characteristics…
Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024 Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm Location: Zoom WATCH VIDEO Abstract: The idea of a construct is central in the psychological and social sciences: constructs are abstract categories like empathy, misinformation, or benefits of social interaction that are operationalized in order to make them measurable. Social scientists spend an enormous amount of…
Event Dates: April 12-14, 2024 Location: Virtual REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Registration deadline is April 5! About DataFest The 2024 DC DataFest is a 48-hour competition where teams of undergraduate students from U.S. colleges and universities compete virtually to analyze rich, complex data sets from a major organization. Students are allowed just two slides to convince…
Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Location: Virtual / Zoom EST Watch Video UMD students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends—join us for the next SoDa Symposium! Description: The UMD Transatlantic Privacy Project (https://privacyperceptions.org/) presents their findings from both qualitative (interviews) and quantitative (panel surveys) portions of the project, sharing insights on…
Date: January 17, 2024 Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm Location: Zoom Watch Video Abstract: This is an exciting time to be part of official statistics. There is growing demand for statistical products that traditional surveys alone cannot address. Stakeholders want timelier, more accurate, more granular, and differently structured information about people, places, and the economy than…
Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2023Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pmLocation: Zoom Abstract: Our project examines media coverage of lynching from 1789 to the current era. Researchers examined metadata of 60,000 pages of news coverage in the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America database and conducted a computational text analysis of a stratified sample. We find that some…
