Carolina Data Science Now: Tackling Underrepresentation with Data Science

We invite UNC faculty and staff to join us for the next Carolina Data Science Now seminar. This month's theme is "Tackling Underrepresentation with Data Science."

The event will feature three lightning talks by professors and researchers in UNC-Chapel Hill’s academic community, centered around how data science is used across different disciplines to address underrepresentation. These talks will be followed by a guided panel, an opportunity for questions and answers with the speakers, and a discussion with the data science community at UNC-Chapel Hill, where we'll collaboratively examine the resources that enable researchers from a variety of disciplines to tackle underrepresentation through data science.

Speakers:

Deen Freelon, Hussman School of Journalism and Media: Deen Freelon is an associate professor at Hussman and principal researcher at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life. His theoretical interests address how ordinary citizens use social media and other digital communication technologies for political purposes, paying specific attention to how identity characteristics influence these uses. His talk will discuss PIEGraph, a novel system for user-eye view research that offers key advantages over existing systems.

Andrés Hincapié, Economics: Andrés Hincapié is an assistant professor who employs applied microeconometrics to study entrepreneurial and health-related choices of individuals over their life cycle. He co-hosts the Mix(ed)tape Podcast, which educates consumers of Afro-Latin culture on its Black roots. His talk will discuss the various mechanisms and decision factors behind the increasing gap in entrepreneurship between white and black males as they age by using a life cycle model of occupational choice.

Matt Jansen, University Libraries: Matt Jansen is a data analysis librarian who provides support for researchers and students on data preparation and analysis across a variety of data formats and research goals, including analyses of text corpora, chiefly in R and Python. His talk will discuss On the Books, a data and machine learning project with the goal of discovering Jim Crow and racially-based legislation signed into law in North Carolina between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement (1866/67-1967).

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