Dr. Emma Spiro and Dr. Kate Starbird (HCDE) along with student collaborators C. Andrews, E. Fichet, and S. Ding were awarded a honorable mention for their 2016 CSCW paper "Keeping Up with the Tweet-dashians: The Impact of 'Official' Accounts on Online Rumoring." The award is given to the top 5% of CSCW papers each year.

Dr. Blumenstock's research was featured on KPLU this morning. It was also recently covered by the New York Times, the BBC, GeekWire, Cristian Science Monitor, and media outlets in Spain and Germany.

Dr. Spiro and collaborators have a new research article, "A cross-hazard analysis of terse message retransmission on Twitter", published in the Proceedings of the National Academcy of Sciences.

Dr. Blumenstock's paper, Predicting Poverty and Wealth from Mobile Phone Data, is being published in the November 27 issue of Science Magazine!

Dr. Blumenstock was awarded a Millenium Grand Challenge Exploration grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Yea Seul Kim and Dr. Hullman's work on text simplification for science journalism was featured on the European Journalism Center's website Data Driven Journalism

Dr. Hullman's work on Hypothetical Outcome Plots, a new technique for visualizing uncertainty in data, has been published in PLOS ONE.

Jevin is giving a talk at Duke University's Machine Learning Seminar on mining the scholarly literature.

We had our first DataLab Open House.  Thanks to everyone who attended.  It was a great event! 

Jevin gave one of the plenary talks on measuring scholarly influence at the Pew Biomedical Scholars Conference in the Cayman Islands.

DataLab PhD student Guanghua Chi's research on Chinese Ghost Cities has been featured in the MIT Technology Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and other major media outlets around the world.

Yea Seul Kim, Dr. Hullman, and collaborator Eytan Adar published and presented their work DeScipher: A Text Simplification Tool for Science Journalism at the 2015 Computation+Journalism conference. 

Research by DataLab members Joshua Blumenstock and Niall Keleher has been accepted for oral presentation and publication at the ACM Conference on Computing for Development in London. The paper is titled, "The Price Is Right? Statistical evaluation of a crowdsourced market information system in Liberia."

Datalab fellow Ott Toomet, along with collaborators, released a new version of maxLik, a package for Maximum Likelihood estimations for R.  The package features Marquardt (1963) quadratic approximation control, and a new API. Download and more information available at CRAN.

Dr. Spiro and collaborators have published in Sociological Methods & Research. The paper titled "Using Twitter for Demographic and Social Science Research: Tools for Data Collection and Processing" is now available online.