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Formal Response
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Formal Response — MDI’s Response to NSF Request for Information on Key Technology Areas for TIP

The Massive Data Institute (MDI) at the McCourt School of Public Policy and the Department of Computer at Georgetown University (see contributors below) offer the following…

July 31, 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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Massive Data Institute drives community efforts to preserve at-risk data

The Institute is working to save data vital for shaping evidence-based public policy. The McCourt School of Public Policy’s Massive Data Institute (MDI)   is leading an…

July 17, 2025

Events
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Event — MDI Summer 2025 Student Research Showcase

On Friday, August 1, 2025, the Massive Data Institute of the McCourt School of Public Policy will host the MDI Summer 2025 Student Research Showcase. MDI student and recently…

July 2, 2025

Job Posting
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MDI is Hiring: Fall 2025 MDI Scholars

We are pleased to announce a call for applications for the Fall 2025 cohort of the MDI Scholars Program. For full consideration, the application deadline is Friday July 18, 2025…

June 30, 2025

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Announcing Summer 2025 Research at MDI

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

June 13, 2025

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2024 – 2025 Academic Year Recap

Written by Lisa Singh, MDI Director, Sonneborn Chair, Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy Now that the…

June 13, 2025

Events
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Editing for Equity: Closing the Wikipedia Gender Gap

Join the Georgetown community to help close this gender gap on Wikipedia by increasing the representation of underrepresented groups — in both Wikipedia content and…

June 13, 2025

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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. …

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…

May 5, 2025