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The Massive Data Institute (MDI) at Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy harnesses modern data and computing power to produce cutting edge social science, computer science, and data science research that improves public policy decision making.

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Bridging the Online Gender Gap: Rebecca MacKinnon and the Fight for Gender Equity on Wikipedia

Participants from the 2nd Annual Georgetown Wikipedia Edit-a-thon.

May 6, 2025

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Labeling Election-Related Communications on Social Media: Navigating “easy” and “hard” Labels

By: Thessalia Merivaki, Ph.D., Associate Teaching and Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, and Jorge Bris Moreno ’25, MDI Scholar Researchers analyzing social media data…

May 5, 2025