Solidarity and Strife
Recap
Published February 5, 2021
Measuring Belief in Fake News Online
Recorded on January 29, 2021, this video features Joshua A. Tucker, Professor of Politics at New York University. Tucker discussed his recent research, which focused on understanding how well can ordinary people do in identifying the veracity of news in real time.
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Article
Published September 15, 2020
Social Science Prediction Platform
An interview with Stefano DellaVigna, Professor of Economics and Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Article
Published May 6, 2020
Disaster Preparedness and Seeking Equity Amidst COVID-19
An interview with Sarah Vaughn, Assistant Professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology, on how different communities prepare for and respond to pandemics and disasters.
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Published April 29, 2020
Berkeley Interpersonal Contact Study
Researchers from the UC Berkeley Department of Demography use survey methods to measure the effect of "social distancing."
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Article
Published January 28, 2020
The Berkeley Protocol on Open Source Investigations
UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center is leading the way in the ethical use of open-source methods for investigating war crimes and human rights violations. We interviewed Dr. Alexa Koenig, executive director of the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law and a pioneer in shaping the Berkeley Protocol.
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Published November 11, 2018
Getting the Facts on Sexual Violence & Sexual Harassment
Recorded on October 25 at UC Berkeley's Social Science Matrix, this panel discussion focused on the limits of what can be learned about sexual violence and harassment from personal narratives that are shared online, as well as the question of what is missed in survey data related to sexual violence.
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Recap
Published October 17, 2016
Weapons of Math Destruction
On September 16, 2016, Social Science Matrix hosted Cathy O'Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.
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Published December 9, 2015
Juana María Rodríguez: “Statistics and Queer Theory”
Professor Juana María Rodríguez, from UC Berkeley's Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, suggests that scholars in the field of Queer Studies would benefit from a turn to statistics as a lens into bisexuality and other identities.
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Article
Published April 23, 2015
Emmanuel Letouzé: “Data for Development”
UC Berkeley demographer (and cartoonist) Emmanuel Letouzé seeks to reduce the gap in statistical data available about populations in developing nations.
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Article
Published August 4, 2014
The Happy App
Tchiki Davis, a Berkeley social psychology Ph.D. candidate, is building an app to boost happiness.
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Article
Published August 1, 2014
If Then What?
A Social Science Matrix seminar is examining the creeping presence of algorithms in modern society.
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