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George Mason & University of Maryland to Leverage 311 Data for Increased DMV Resilience During a Pandemic
February 26, 2021 | Press ReleaseFunded by the NSF, the team aims to provide tools to governments to better respond to regional disasters and crises.
University of Maryland, Carnegie Mellon, and Facebook Team Up to Forecast Coronavirus Spread
November 19, 2020 | Press ReleaseData shared by 30M+ Facebook users world-wide will enable earlier detection of COVID-19 outbreaks, help communities to prepare, inform …
UMD Researchers Receive $2.35M NSF Award to Improve Public Transit Planning in Baltimore
September 29, 2020 | Maria HerdDr. Frias-Martinez and team are to build an app for Baltimore residents to contribute their ideas and travel data, a public dashboard …
University of Maryland Launches New Social Data Science Center with Support from Facebook
September 9, 2020 | Press ReleaseInitial Projects include Survey Tools to Track, Predict COVID-19 ‘Hot Spots’
Using Cell Phones to Learn How We Respond to Natural Disasters
June 27, 2019 | Maria HerdDr. Frias-Martinez, UMD iSchool, is using mobile data to build predictive models for emergency preparedness teams to use in future disa …
UMD iSchool Researchers Jennifer Preece and Tamara Clegg’s Interaction Design Paper Published in PNAS
February 12, 2019 | iSchoolNews