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.
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Latest Round of Microgrant Recipients Announced
| by Mike Roy
The midd.data steering committee has approved four new micro-grants for colleagues at the college and institute, and one leave grant for the 2022-23 academic year.
Technology Career Exploration with CCI's Jeff Sawyer
| by Jeff Sawyer
Jeff Sawyer from The Center for Careers and Internships (CCI) shares information about career opportunities in the technology and data, and how to work with CCI to explore.
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.
How does study-abroad impact the development of grammatical accuracy? An Interview with Dr. Hang Du
| by Mike Roy
Dr. Hang Du of Middlebury’s Chinese Department has for over a decade been building and analyzing a database of spoken Chinese to understand how student’s studying abroad learn Chinese. We checked in with her to see how she is doing this work, what she has learned, and what advice she has for others embarking on this type of study.
Call for Participation: midd.data and Axinn Center for the Humanities Data Workshop Series
| by Mike Roy
Do you have an idea for a data-driven humanities project, but you are not sure where to start? Do you have a humanities-centered research question that can only be answered with data analysis? Consider participating in the Humanities Data Workshop Series, brought to you by midd.data and the Axinn Center for the Humanities with support from Middlebury’s data librarians Wendy Shook and Ryan Clement. In this beginners workshop you will learn how to collect, organize, structure, clean, and visualize your data. Depending on the needs of the participants, other topics may also be introduced.