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Data community connects at year-end celebration

Event Recording: Sustaining Impact Panel

This panel session at the Celebration of the Year of Data and Society brought together funding recipients to discuss sustaining the impact of their projects beyond the Year of Data and Society.

Event Recording: Celebration of the Year of Data and Society Lightning Talks

The lightning talks at the Celebration of the Year of Data and Society highlighted the range of research, events, and learning activities supported through the Funding Opportunity. Speakers included:

Event Recording: Panel on Facilitating Student Learning about Data

This panel session at the Celebration of the Year of Data and Society highlighted data-focused classroom and instruction design activities. 

Panelists included:

Na-Rae Han (Department of Linguistics), Project: Careers in Language Data

Bob Gradeck (University Center for Social and Urban Research), Project: Developing a Data Science for Social Justice Curriculum at Pitt

Event Recording: "Responsible Use of Learning Analytics: A Faculty Panel"

This panel session explored the implications of learning analytics for administrators and faculty. Panel discussion topics included ethical considerations when using learning analytics, the benefits and drawbacks of learning analytics, and how learning analytics is used in research and teaching. 

Projects Awarded in the Third Round of the Year of Data and Society Initiative

How linked open data can teach about the history of slavery

By Briana Wipf

Student data can help instructors but can lead to ‘unintended consequences’

By Briana Wipf

About 20 attendees gathered on Zoom to discuss the ethics of using student data for learning analytics on Thursday, Feb. 10, in a workshop led by George Rehrey of Indiana University in Bloomington.

Legislative redistricting relies on data deep dives

By Briana Wipf

“You have to be a pretty serious data person to take dives into this data,” Mark McKillop quipped toward the end of a Year of Data and Society presentation given Friday, Jan. 28, on the legislative reapportionment process in Pennsylvania.

‘Community of the eager’: Pitt’s Year of Data and Society plans for spring (The Pitt News)

By Elizabeth Primrose

The Year of Data and Society Initiative Second Round Awards

The Year of Data and Society made awards to 14 projects in the second round of the Funding Opportunity.

Data feminism takes aim at algorithms that discriminate (University Times Story)

Year of Data and Society projects announced (University Times Story)

Event Recording: CAASI Allegheny County Policing Project (ACPP) Launch Event

The Grief to Action Initiative at the Center for Analytical Approaches to Social Innovation (CAASI) shared their work to help residents navigate hyperfragmentation of policing in Allegheny County. The volunteer team, which includes GSPIA and SCI students, created a data platform with a searchable library of almost 100 police contracts, an interactive map of Allegheny County police departments, and a guide to help citizens navigate the complexity of filing misconduct complaints. View the recording of the November 19 launch event.

Applying Intersectional Feminism to Data Science: “Data Feminism” with Catherine D’Ignazio

By Jane Rohrer