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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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Event — MDI Scholars Research Showcase Fall 2025

On Wednesday, December 10, 2025, the Massive Data Institute of the McCourt School of Public Policy will host the MDI Scholars Research Showcase Fall 2025. MDI Scholars will…

November 3, 2025

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MDI is Hiring: Spring 2026 MDI Scholars

We are pleased to announce a call for applications for the Spring 2026 cohort of the MDI Scholars Program. For full consideration, the priority deadline is Friday December 12,…

October 31, 2025

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Event – MDI Distinguished Lecture “Career Transitions: Impact and Interventions” by Susan Athey, Ph.D.

On October 22, 2025 from 3:00-4:00pm at Fisher Colloquium, the McCourt School of Public Policy’s Massive Data Institute (MDI) will host Susan Athey, Ph.D., Economics of…

September 25, 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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Announcing Fall 2025 Research at MDI

The Massive Data Institute at the McCourt School of Public Policy welcomed the Summer 2025 Cohort of student.…

September 12, 2025

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Fall 2025 MDI Workshops

Each semester, the Massive Data Institute (MDI) at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University sponsors technical data processing and analysis workshops to…

September 11, 2025

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Hoyas Help Close Wikipedia’s Gender Gap During Virtual Edit-a-Thon

Georgetown University Library, in partnership with the Massive Data Institute at the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University Women’s Center, and Wikimedia…

September 10, 2025

Faculty Spotlight
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Elissa Redmiles Selected as One of MIT Technology Review’s 2025 Innovators Under 35

Elissa Redmiles, the Clare Luce Boothe assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been named one of MIT Technology Review’s innovators under. …

September 8, 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