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 ...
Read more...Digital Storytelling at the NULab in 2018–2019
September 2, 2018The NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks is delighted to announce that our calendar of events for the 2018–2019 academic year will be focused around ...
Read more...New study published by David Lazer, NULab co-director, in PNAS
August 15, 2018David Lazer, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer and Information Sciences and Co-Director of NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, has published a new ...
Read more...Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCCS)
July 30, 2018Register at pacss.brownpapertickets.com. The early-bird registration fee of $50 will be available until August 15, after which registration will be $100. Contact us with any questions at pacss2018@gmail.com. Schedule ...
Read more...Five NULab Faculty Members Awarded Tenure
July 11, 2018The NULab is delighted to announce that five NULab faculty members received tenure this year. These promotions demonstrate the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to digital ...
Read more...Boston Research Center featured in Boston Magazine
May 21, 2018The Boston Research Center was recently featured in Boston Magazine: “Boston has a long and complicated past, and its many archives and databases each tell little pieces ...
Read more...Research by NULab faculty members Moya Bailey and Brooke Foucault Welles featured in News@Northeastern
May 10, 2018From News@Northeastern: In April 2014, the New York Police Department started a social media campaign, asking its Twitter followers to use the hashtag #MyNYPD and tweet ...
Read more...NULab Core Faculty Member Moya Bailey named to Essence Magazine’s Woke 100 Women of 2018
May 3, 2018From News@Northeastern: Moya Bailey has always known that a black woman in America has to navigate a compounded, specific kind of discrimination. There just wasn’t a ...
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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 they 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 »
Northeastern hackathon creates tools and stories to better understand food insecurity in Boston
By Meredith Dietz and Paxtyn Merten Not every Boston neighborhood has equal access to healthy, affordable food. The city’s food system, in fact, is rife Continue Reading »
Speed Data-ing Event 2018
On October 31st, 2018, the fourth-annual Speed Data-ing event brought together two panels of Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science researchers to discuss a range Continue Reading »