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Event – Datathon for Democracy: Data In Action — Massive Data Institute, Bright Initiative, and IBM
Join the McCourt School of Public Policy’s Massive Data Institute (MDI), Bright Data Initiative by Bright Data, and IBM, for an exclusive one-day Datathon for Democracy on March 29th. We will…
March 2, 2026
Job Posting, News
MDI is Hiring: Summer 2026 MDI Scholars
We are pleased to announce a call for applications for the Summer 2026 cohort of the MDI Scholars Program. For full consideration, the priority deadline is Tuesday March 31, 2026 at 12 noon Eastern.…
February 27, 2026
News
Introducing: The Georgetown Data Science Corps
By: Miranda Yarowsky SFS 2026, MDI Communications & Events Assistant In the Fall of 2024, a cross-disciplinary team at Georgetown University received support from the National Science…
February 26, 2026
MDI’s Medium Blog
What’s Ahead for the Place-Based Indicators Project
The Place-Based Indicators Project was launched with the goal of helping communities turn the masses of data on all aspects of daily life into useful, easily accessible information that can help them …
July 5th, 2023
Green Space Data Challenge Winners: Specific Populations Category
Over the month of February, MDI hosted the Green Space Data Challenge, inviting undergraduate and graduate students as well as early career professionals to use green space data to create or improve i…
June 27th, 2023
Green Space Data Challenge: Community Health Winners
Closing out our series of Q&As with the winners of the Green Space Data Challenge is the top-placing team of the Community Health category.Community Health Challenge Category Winner: Uncovering In…
June 22nd, 2023
