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Big ideas, big impact: Georgetown students advance 35 data-driven policy solutions

Extracted from: https://mccourt.georgetown.edu/news/georgetown-students-advance-35-data-driven-policy-solutions/ Undergraduate and graduate students across the Georgetown…

December 21, 2022

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Can Medicaid Managed Care mitigate race/ethnic health disparities in diabetes?

Professor Maria Alva and her MDI team were recently awarded a grant by National Institute On Minority Health And Health Disparities, a division of the NIH, for over $525,000. &…

December 8, 2022

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Spring 2023 MDI Scholar Job Description

We are pleased to announce a call for applications for the Spring 2023 cohort of the MDI Scholars Program. For full consideration, please submit your application by December 9,…

November 22, 2022

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Building reliable demographic baseline for environmental research

Low-geography-level population estimates built from housing and population data. Population statistics are critical to environmental research and advocacy. For example, measuring…

November 20, 2022

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The unpredictability of life outcomes

Extracted from: https://mccourt.georgetown.edu/news/the-unpredictability-of-life-outcomes/ This fall, the McCourt School’s Massive Data Institute (MDI) launched its…

November 19, 2022

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Integrating Data Engineering Principles to ensure data quality and usability of the EIDC

The Massive Data Institute (MDI) is developing the Environmental Impact Data Collaborative (EIDC) to enable community groups, policymakers, and researchers to discover, access,…

November 17, 2022

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MDI Scholars Fall 2022 Research Showcase

On December 7th, 2022 from 1:00-2:30 pm followed by a reception from 2:30-3:30 pm in the Social Room in the Healey Family Student Center at Georgetown University, the Fall 2022…

November 17, 2022

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What We Learned From Evaluating Drinking Water Funding & Why It’s Currently Too Hard to Effectively Track

Extracted from: https://www.policyinnovation.org/blog/what-we-learned-from-evaluating-drinking-water-infrastructure-funding-its-currently-too-hard-to-effectively-track-where…

November 16, 2022

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Creating an Open Source National Dataset of National Drinking Water Funding

How to turn 50 PDFs into actionable data. Access to clean drinking water is widely considered a basic human right. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…

November 15, 2022

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Expanding the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool to better understand Justice40’s impact

The Massive Data Institute (MDI) is developing the Environmental Impact Data Collaborative (EIDC) to enable community groups, policymakers, and researchers to discover, access,…

October 31, 2022