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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

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Health, Demographics, and Superfund Sites in Maryland: A use case for the Environmental Impact Data Collaborative

To demonstrate the power of the Environmental Impact Data Collaborative, we have assembled environmental, health, and demographic data for Maryland to support location-based…

October 7, 2022

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Improving Firearm Research Using Social Media Data

Massive Data Institute researchers and students developed machine learning classifiers to identify tweets that pertain to firearm deaths and develop estimates of the volume of…

October 7, 2022

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Event – MDI Distinguished Lecture “The Unpredictability of Life Outcomes” by Dr. Matthew J. Salganik

On October 26, 2022 from 3:00-4:00pm at Copley Formal Lounge, the McCourt School of Public Policy’s Massive Data Institute (MDI) will host the inaugural MDI Distinguished…

September 30, 2022

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Massive Data Institute Announces Fall 2022 MDI Scholars

With the start of the academic year, the Massive Data Institute (MDI) is pleased to announce our Fall 2022 MDI Scholars Cohort. The MDI Scholars program was launched in 2019 and…

September 29, 2022

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Assessing the American Community Survey Program

Professor Amy O’Hara and her MDI team were recently awarded two grants, one from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) for $30,000 and one from the Robert Wood…

August 22, 2022

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William E. Winkler: A High-Impact Career in Statistical Computing – Yves Thibaudeau

August 25,…

August 15, 2022

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Integrating City Open Data for Environmental Impact

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

August 9, 2022