Writing Centers as Data Repositories and Research Sites
Lightning Talk by Genie Giaimo (WRPR) on Writing Centers as Data Repositories and Research Sites.
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Data Literacy Through Geography
Lightning Talk by Niwaeli Kimambo, Assistant Professor of Geography on Data Literacy through Geography.
“Why’d You Stop Me?” META Lab Works with the Salinas City Hall to Assess De-Escalation Police Policies
| by Phil Murphy and Director of META Lab
Phil Murphy writes about a META Lab team that worked with the Salinas, California city hall on a project called “Evaluation of strengthening relations between law enforcement and the community” that was solicited by City Hall in Salinas, CA in the wake of three police shootings in a one month span. The META Lab was asked to measure the efficacy of the program. The project was initiated in July, 2016 and concluded in July of 2018.
First Round of midd.data Grants Awarded
We are pleased to announce that the midd.data steering committee has awarded 9 microgrants and 4 leave-term grants.
You can learn more about funding and support on the funding section of midd.data website or by emailing us at midd.data@middlebury.edu .
MiddData Video from the Clifford Symposium
In September 2020, Faculty Directors Caitlin Myers and Kathy Morse introduced MiddData as part of the Clifford Symposium on The Rise of Big Data.
Utilizing Open COVID-19 Data
Accessing, Visualizing, and Communicating Open COVID-19 Data by Benjy Renton ‘21.
Working with Text Data and Language Ideologies Online
Lightning Talk featuring speakers John Foley (Computer Science) on Working with Text Data: Automatically Extracting Poetry from Scanned Books and Gyula Zsombok (French and Francophone Studies) on Language Ideologies and How People Perceive Them Online.