Workshop/Symposium
Recap
Published October 19, 2017
Geo4Dev Symposium
Matrix was honored to co-sponsor Geospatial Analysis for International Development (Geo4Dev), a two-day symposium and workshop held September 6-7, 2017 focused on the application of remote sensing and geospatial analysis to address issues of poverty, sustainable development, urbanization, climate change, and economic growth in developing countries.
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Article
Published June 13, 2017
Dr. Charis Thompson: Critique in the Era of Trump
Dr. Charis Thompson analyzes our political moment and discusses working at the intersections of science, gender, and society.
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Recap
Published May 22, 2017
An Orderly Mess: Helga Nowotny
View the video of the 2017 Social Science Matrix Distinguished Lecture, presented by Helga Nowotny, Professor emerita of Science and Technology Studies, ETH Zurich, and a founding member of the European Research Council.
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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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Article
Published September 6, 2016
Karen Barkey: “Shared Sacred Sites”
Dr. Karen Barkey, a sociologist joining UC Berkeley in Fall 2016, directs the Shared Sacred Sites initiative, which uses digital humanities methods to present fieldwork on sacred sites shared by different religious communities.
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Published January 26, 2016
Tips for Computational Text Analysis
Social science researchers are increasingly enlisting computer-driven textual analysis to help their research. This article provides an overview of the key steps required for this kind of analysis, with a focus on resources available at UC Berkeley.
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Published December 17, 2015
Crowdsourcing Social Research
The capability to democratically distribute tasks within a directed project presents novel possibilities for researchers—and social scientists at UC Berkeley are taking advantage.
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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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Published September 24, 2015
Fall 2015 Matrix Seminars Underway
Covering topics ranging from climate change and race relations to polarization in Europe and the study of metaphor, a new series of interdisciplinary seminars are underway at Social Science Matrix.
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Published July 7, 2015
Hacking Measurement
A Social Science Matrix research seminar on "Technology for Measurement" is dedicated to developing new solutions for gathering social data from a variety of sources.
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Published July 7, 2015
Taming Animal Spirits
A pair of researchers from UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy organized a Matrix seminar to explore what neuroscience can tell us about asset price bubbles and other irrational economic behavior.
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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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