Upcoming Events

Monday, April 12 (3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT)

The Measurement of Partisan Sorting for 180 Million Voters
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Speaker: Ryan Enos, Professor of Government and Faculty Associate in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), Harvard UniversityAbstract: Segregation across social groups is an enduring feature of nearly all human societies and is associated with numerous social maladies. In many countries, reports of growing geographic political polarization raise concerns about the stability of democratic governance. This talk will show how advances in spatial data computation was used to measure individual partisan segregation by calculating the local residential segregation of every registered voter in the United States, creating a spatially weighted measure for more than 180 million individuals. Read about the research in New York Times.________________

Thursday, April 15 (12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT)
Elections, Online Chatter and Content Moderation
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Speaker: Mutale Nkonde, Founding Director, AI for the People. Chaired by Desmond Upton Patton, DSI’s Associate Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

This talk will center on the work done by AI for the People on racially targeted disinformation on Twitter during the 2020 Election, and the challenges they faced communicating this to trust and safety teams due to their lack of how to read online culture through speech. The talk will introduce listeners to how the environment changed from 2016 to 2020, share findings (detailed here), and end with recommendations on how to increase the racial literacy of computer scientists working in industry settings.