Building a Post-War U.S. State-Level Unemployment Dataset
Midd.data welcomed David Munro (Economics) for this year’s first Lightning Talk on Wednesday, 9/21 on creating a new unemployment dataset, one of our best economic indicators.
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Pandemic Layoffs
Learn how Economics Professor Erin Wolcott and her students mined unemployment data to better understand the impact of the pandemic on employment trends.
Data Analytics at The Center for the Blue Economy
The Center for the Blue Economy’s Tony Castelletto describes how the Center for the Blue Economy uses data to conduct translational work in environmental economics.
Million Dollar Hoods
Lightning Talk by Kelly Lytle Hernández on Million Dollar Hoods: Mapping the Cost of Mass Incarceration, an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecture.
Critical Language Awareness Pedagogy
Lightning Talk by Shawna Shapiro, Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, on Building a Community of Practice around Critical Language Awareness Pedagogy.
Geography's Pete Nelson Tracks Pandemic Movement with Cell Phone Data
| by Mike Roy
Geography’s Pete Nelson’s work tracking pandemic movements using cell phone data was recently featured on WCAX.
Using Digital Humanities to Recover Lost Histories of Slavery Video Posted
Lightning Talk by Dr. Elsa Mendoza’s on Using Digital Humanities to Recover Lost Histories of Slavery.
Eric Schmidt on the Liberal Arts in an Information Age
Midd.data chats with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt about the epochal changes wrought by the rise of AI and the ways in which liberal arts institutions can and should adapt to prepare students for this new age.
Watch Middlebury's Ami Biswas Lightning Talk
| by Mike Roy
Professor Biswas’ talk “Optimizing spirits distribution in Bangkok with data-driven marketing analytics” is now online.
Open-Source Intelligence and Operational Security for Researching the Far Right
Lighting Talk by Alex Newhouse, Middlebury Institute Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, on Open-Source Intelligence and Operational Security for Researching the Far Right.