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Humans In the Loop: Building Trust in Elections With Bipartisan Messaging
By: Thessalia Merivaki, Ph.D., Associate Teaching Professor & Associate Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy & the Massive Data Institute While many state…
December 4, 2025
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How State Education Systems Are Charting a New Data Privacy Frontier
By: Stephanie Straus, Policy Fellow, Massive Data Institute In recent years, state education departments have expanded their existing databases into integrated, multi-agency…
September 23, 2025
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Connecting Science to Policy – Three Years of MDI’s Research Experience for Undergraduates Program
By: Rebecca Vanarsdall, MDI Research Manager Our MDI Summer Research Showcase on August 1st, marked the end of the final year of the Department of Computer Science and MDI’s…
September 3, 2025
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Expanding Impact: How Safe Babies Safe Moms Data is Powering Research Across Health Systems
By: Aditi Bhardwaj is a Data Scientist working with the Health Care Financing Initiative and the Massive Data Institute, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University.…
July 28, 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…
May 5, 2025
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Who Decides What You See? How Middleware Can Reshape Social Media
By: Renée DiResta, Associate Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy For as long social media has existed, there have been debates about content moderation and…
April 10, 2025
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Researchers at Georgetown are using Data to Generate Policy-Driven Solutions to Forced Migration Issues
Written by Tilde Jaques, MDI Journalism Intern Global forced migration has continued to increase throughout the past decades. According to the United Nations High Commissioner…
April 1, 2024
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The Wetlands Impact Tracker: Revealing Public Notices for the Public Good
Extracted from: https://www.policyinnovation.org/blog/wetlands-trackerOriginal written by Gabe Watson (EPIC), Kumar Himangshu (MDI), and Matthew Vining (Atlas Public…
March 25, 2024
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Reevaluating the Low Income Energy Assistance Program- A Proposal For a More Equitable Distribution Formula
Written by Grace Jensen, 2023 Summer Graduate Assistant Extreme heat conditions, or periods where the heat index exceeded 90 degrees fahrenheit, have become more commonplace…
September 4, 2023
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A deep dive into U.S. residential energy usage: Challenges and opportunities for clean energy transition and equitable access to energy
To offer users a detailed but intuitive understanding of the U.S. energy landscape, EIDC has developed an interactive dashboard that taps into the latest residential energy…
August 17, 2023