Big Data for Social Science: What is it?

Big Data for Social Science: What is it?

Thursday, April 9, 2015
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
(Pacific)

Encina Hall (2nd floor)

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Abstract: TBA

 

About the Panelists: Dr. Justin Grimmer is an Associate Professor in Stanford University's Department of Political Science.  His primary research interests include Congress, representation, bureaucracy and political methodology.  

Dr. Rob Forrest is a Senior Member of Technical Staff in the System Research and Analysis Department at Sandia National Laboratories. He was a postdoctoral fellow at CISAC from 2011 to 2014 and is now a CISAC Affiliate. 

Erin Baggott is a Zukerman Predoctoral Fellow at CISAC and is completing her PhD in international relations at the Harvard University Department of Government.  She studies Chinese foreign policy with techniques from computational social science and machine learning.