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…
WATCH VIDEO January 23, 2024 The importance of creating good quality jobs has been highlighted in much recent legislation, including the Chips and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the InfrastructureInvestment and Jobs Act, as well as the renewal of existing legislation such as the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. Participants in a recent Executive Certificate class jointly offered by…
WATCH VIDEO January 30, 2024 The importance of high quality data and data access in creating evidence for policy making. However, data that are systematically missing observations over time or for different groups of people can negatively impact the quality of that evidence. Participants in a recent Executive Certificate class jointly offered by New York University and…
Date: February 27, 2024 Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm Location: Zoom
Date: TBD, Fall 2024 Time: TBD Location: Zoom Abstract: Data science methods are increasingly being applied to large-scale educational data, but there has been less attention on the possibility of algorithmic bias. In this presentation, we present several metrics used for algorithmic bias, discuss how proportions of racial groups impact the presence of algorithmic bias,…
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 apply best practices when working with data. Participants will…
Established in 2016, Data Detectives Camp is a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) camp that teaches statistics rising 6th- and 7th-grade students. The camp is conducted by NCHS, which is part of CDC, in collaboration with the American Statistical Association, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics, CDC’s Disease Detectives Camp, University of…
Tuesday, March 28, 2023: 12:00 PM EST The 2018 Foundations for Evidence-based Policymaking Act charged federal agencies with engaging in meaningful ways with the public to better understand how government data assets are used. The Economic Research Service and the National Agricultural Statistical Service have developed a new approach to understanding how their data are used that provides a more in-depth look that can…
