2020 ICPSR Data Fair: Data In Real Life

September 17, 2020
Professors Whitney Ogle, Ronnie Swartz, Josh Meisel, and Dominic Corva will give a presentation titled, "Using Cannabis Data to Improve Public Health and Promote Social Equity," on Thursday, September 24th, as part of a virtual Data Fair (9/21-25) hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan. Other presentations include:
  • Redistricting Math: Using Computers to Stop Gerrymandering
  • On Why Race Still Matters: Ontological Commitments and Researching Without Numbers
  • The 2020 Presidential Race Mid-Campaign
  • Data in Real Life: Capturing the Lived Experience of Subgroups in the US
  • Methods and Analytic Approaches for Physically Disabled Persons Using Administrative Claims Datasets
  • Analyst, Creator, Consultant: Models of Undergraduate Experiential Data Learning 
  • The real-life story of the just-released ICPSR study: New Immigrants Admitted to the United States, Federal Fiscal Years 1972-2000
  • Quantifying Gender Identities and Behaviors
  • Health and Neighborhood Context: The National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA)

This data fair is a great opportunity for students to see how data is used to inform policy.

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