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On May 3rd, the Massive Data Institute hosted the MDI Scholars Research Showcase Spring 2023. Over the past semester and longer, scholars have worked with faculty and researchers on…
May 11, 2023
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MDI Scholars Spring 2023 Research Showcase
On May 3rd 2023, the Massive Data Institute of the McCourt School of Public Policy will host the MDI Scholars Research Showcase Spring 2023. MDI Scholars will present their research in the Healey…
April 19, 2023
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Politics and Polling: Digging into How Data Influences the Political Process
As part of Tech and Society Week 2023, the Massive Data Institute and the Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service, both part of the McCourt School of Public Policy, teamed up…
April 18, 2023
MDI’s Medium Blog
Using Guided Topic-Noise Models
Learn how to use GTM with social media data (2/3)Topic-noise models are a new type of topic model designed for short texts like social media data. They have been used to discover topics in large doma…
January 26th, 2023
The Urban/Rural DivideBy Izzy YoungsThis blog post is part of the Massive Data Institute’s Place-Based Indicators Project. Each blog post discusses an aspect of our research and efforts to produce …
September 28th, 2022
Understanding Community Indicators
By Joseph ScarianoThis blog post is part of the Massive Data Institute’s Place-Based Indicators Project. Each blog post discusses an aspect of our research and efforts to produce a framework for un…
August 30th, 2022
