In the coming months we will be inundated with political messaging from a host of sources. This is always what happens in the period leading up to a political election and this time it’s no different. Well…one thing is different actually: this time we can use new data visualizations from professor David Lazer’s lab to ...
“Visualize the ball.” I’m sure most of you have heard the phrase at some point in your life — for me it was probably as long ago as 9th grade gym class and had more to do with not getting hit by it than trying to catch it, but still — we’ve all heard the ...
Academic Minute is a radio podcast that features researchers from colleges and universities around the world, keeping listeners abreast of what’s new and exciting in the academy. In June, electrical and computer engineering professor Carey Rappaport spoke about his work developing a new generation of body scanners that provide an increase in security and privacy ...
In 2005 4 million infants died during their first 28 days of life. Despite the World Health Organization’s Millenium Development Goals to reduce that number significantly by 2010, the number had only dropped to 3.6 million in those next five years. In an article in this month’s issue of the American Journal of Maternal and ...
Here’s a statistic for you: From internet and mobile phone use to credit card transactions and voting records, we now generate more socio-economic data each 1.2 years than we did during all of previous human history combined. That’s according to a McKinsey Global Institute Study cited in the first pages of the new open-access online ...