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The Kojo Nnamdi Show: Conspiracy Theories, Math And The Presidential Election, featuring Jen Golbeck

November 20, 2020 | iSchool News

Dr. Jen Golbeck explains why Benford's Law cannot be used to identify voter fraud in the 2020 election.

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University of Maryland, Carnegie Mellon, and Facebook Team Up to Forecast Coronavirus Spread

November 19, 2020 | Press Release

Data shared by 30M+ Facebook users world-wide will enable earlier detection of COVID-19 outbreaks, help communities to prepare, inform …

UMD iSchool @ the ACM’s 2020 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)

November 16, 2020 | Jessica Vitak

UMD iSchool's Dr. Jessica Vitak discusses the college's robust participation in the ACM's prestigious CSCW 2020 Conference.

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Faculty Spotlight: Assistant Professor, Naeemul Hassan

November 10, 2020 | iSchool News

Naeemul is focused on computational journalism and social sensing, working on a number of projects with faculty and staff from the UMD …

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Dr. Niklas Elmqvist & Purdue to Develop Virtual Reality Workforce Training Tech

October 26, 2020 | Mia K. Hinckle

Funded by a $5M NSF Grant to develop more effective workforce training methods using augmented, virtual, and extended realities.

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UMD iSchool Helping to Create Safer Roadways Through Data Visualization

October 7, 2020 | Hayleigh Moore

As part of PG County's Vision Zero project, the dashboard will help to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2040.

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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’

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Maryland Today: Visualizing Vehicle Safety, featuring TJ Rainsford

September 8, 2020 | iSchool News

Led by PhD student TJ Rainsford, an iSchool team created a geographical data visualization tool to support PG County's initiative to …

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UMD iSchool Welcomes Seven New Faculty Members

August 26, 2020 | Mia K. Hinckle

With strengths in library and archives innovation, digital curation, criminal justice data science, socio-technical aspects of cybersec …