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UMD Researchers Receive $2.35M NSF Award to Improve Public Transit Planning in Baltimore

September 29, 2020 | Maria Herd

Dr. Frias-Martinez and team are to build an app for Baltimore residents to contribute their ideas and travel data, a public dashboard …

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University of Maryland Launches New Social Data Science Center with Support from Facebook

September 9, 2020 | Press Release

Initial Projects include Survey Tools to Track, Predict COVID-19 ‘Hot Spots’

Using Cell Phones to Learn How We Respond to Natural Disasters

Using Cell Phones to Learn How We Respond to Natural Disasters

June 27, 2019 | Maria Herd

Dr. Frias-Martinez, UMD iSchool, is using mobile data to build predictive models for emergency preparedness teams to use in future disa …