How to Fix Democracy in the United States
March 24, 2019Republished from News@Northeastern by Molly Callahan To find ways to fix U.S. democracy, Northeastern professor David Lazer “did Democracy like a drug,” he said. At the 55th annual Robert D. Klein ...
Read more...NULab Co-Director David Lazer selected as Robert D. Klein University Lecturer
February 15, 2019NULab Co-Director David Lazer has been selected to give the 55th Robert D Klein Lecture. The Klein University Lecturer Award, established in 1964, distinguishes a ...
Read more...New research by NULab Co-Director David Lazer published in Science
January 25, 2019A new paper “Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election” by Nir Grinberg, Kenneth Joseph, Lisa Friedland, Briony Swire-Thompson, and David Lazer has ...
Read more...NULab Seedling and Travel Grants: Spring 2019 CFP
January 23, 2019Call for Proposals: The NULab is once again inviting proposals for seedling grants, travel, and co-sponsorship of events related to digital humanities and computational social science. The deadline ...
Read more...NULab Spring Calendar of Events
January 11, 2019The NULab is delighted to announce our spring calendar of events. We have some very exciting talks, conferences, workshops, and other events planned for the ...
Read more...David Smith Awarded NEH Grant for OCR Project
December 18, 2018NULab core faculty member David Smith has been awarded an $82,019 Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for the project “Improving Optical Character Recognition for Handwritten Marginalia.” ...
Read more...NULab Professor Pedro Cruz Wins Two Kantar Information Is Beautiful Awards
December 15, 2018Pedro M. Cruz, a NULab core faculty member, recently won two awards at the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards, which celebrate excellence and beauty in data ...
Read more...Representing Is Hard. Online Town Halls Can Help
November 30, 2018Republished from Roll Call By Michael A. Neblo, Kevin M. Esterling, and David M.J. Lazer OPINION — At the end of the movie “The Candidate,” Robert Redford’s character wins a ...
Read more...Two Postdoctoral Positions in Computational Social Science
September 28, 2018Two postdoctoral positions in computational social science are available at the Network Science Institute, to work with David Lazer and Christoph Riedl. Candidates will be ...
Read more...Article by NuLab Co-Director David Lazer in the Washington Post
September 26, 2018Political outcomes today raise questions about how the interests of the majority are carried out by elected officials. Michael Neblo, Kevin Esterling and David Lazer have conducted a ...
Read more...NULab Fall Calendar of Events
September 26, 2018The NULab is delighted to announce our fall calendar of events. We have some very exciting talks, workshops, and other events planned for the semester, ...
Read more...New research by NULab Co-Director David Lazer covered in the Economist, Boston Globe, Time, and Forbes
September 9, 2018A new paper “How intermittent breaks in interaction improve collective intelligence,” by Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer has recently been published in PNAS. The paper examines the results ...
Read more...NULab core faculty member Donghee Jo’s research featured in Washington Post
September 9, 2018A recent article in the Washington Post “Bursting people’s political bubbles could make them even more partisan” discusses how new research explores how “despite decades of psychology ...
Read more...CFP: NULab Fall 2018 Grants
September 7, 2018NULab is once again inviting proposals for seedling grants, travel, and co-sponsorship of events related to digital humanities and computational social science. The deadline is ...
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Douglass Day Read- and Transcribe-a-thon
On February 14th, the NULab, the Women Writers Project, and the Digital Scholarship Group hosted a read- and transcribe-a-thon in celebration of Frederick Douglass’s birthday. Continue Reading »
“Punching History in the Face” with the Co-creators of “Uncivil”
Earlier this month, podcast hosts Jack Hitt and Chenjerai Kumanyika came to Northeastern to discuss their Peabody-award winning podcast, “Uncivil” and share stories from the Continue Reading »
Digital Storytelling Panel: “What’s the Story?”
Programming for the NULab’s theme of Digital Storytelling kicked off with an interdisciplinary panel, “What’s the Story?”, featuring Northeastern faculty members who discussed how Continue Reading »
GIS Day 2018
As part of GIS Day 2018, the Digital Scholarship Group, the Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis), and the College of Arts, Media and Design brought Continue Reading »