The SoDa Center conducts contract and applied research in social data science in support of social science and related areas including public health, economics, transportation, and education.
Highlights
UMD Affiliations
Nations’s oldest and largest graduate training program in survey research.
Nationally recognized for research and education in data visualization, privacy and ethics, and information management.
Research and education focusing on societal functions and social interactions to improve human welfare.
Research and education focusing on how people make choices to inform ongoing decision-making!
Education and research in statistics and probability.
Education and research with immensely broad applications in public health, medical and biological research.
Support
Develop Major Grant Proposals
Support for associate members research projects that would benefit from the use of modern data analysis, management techniques, and knowledge of data and measurement quality.
Seed Grants
Designed to bring attention to the vast universe of digitized data, new forms of behavioral data, and developments in data science to benefit investigators in the social sciences.
Seminars, Workshops & Conferences
Designed to bring attention to the vast universe of digitized data, new forms of behavioral data, and developments in data science to benefit investigators in the social sciences.
Training Modules
Short training modules allow faculty and other working professionals to retool and develop skills to better capitalize on an increasingly data-intensive world.
