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Building reliable demographic baseline for environmental research
Low-geography-level population estimates built from housing and population data. Population statistics are critical to environmental research and advocacy. For example, measuring…
November 20, 2022
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Integrating Data Engineering Principles to ensure data quality and usability of the EIDC
The Massive Data Institute (MDI) is developing the Environmental Impact Data Collaborative (EIDC) to enable community groups, policymakers, and researchers to discover, access,…
November 17, 2022
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MDI Scholars Fall 2022 Research Showcase
On December 7th, 2022 from 1:00-2:30 pm followed by a reception from 2:30-3:30 pm in the Social Room in the Healey Family Student Center at Georgetown University, the Fall 2022…
November 17, 2022
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What We Learned From Evaluating Drinking Water Funding & Why It’s Currently Too Hard to Effectively Track
Extracted from: https://www.policyinnovation.org/blog/what-we-learned-from-evaluating-drinking-water-infrastructure-funding-its-currently-too-hard-to-effectively-track-where…
November 16, 2022
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Creating an Open Source National Dataset of National Drinking Water Funding
How to turn 50 PDFs into actionable data. Access to clean drinking water is widely considered a basic human right. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…
November 15, 2022
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Expanding the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool to better understand Justice40’s impact
The Massive Data Institute (MDI) is developing the Environmental Impact Data Collaborative (EIDC) to enable community groups, policymakers, and researchers to discover, access,…
October 31, 2022
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Health, Demographics, and Superfund Sites in Maryland: A use case for the Environmental Impact Data Collaborative
To demonstrate the power of the Environmental Impact Data Collaborative, we have assembled environmental, health, and demographic data for Maryland to support location-based…
October 7, 2022
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Improving Firearm Research Using Social Media Data
Massive Data Institute researchers and students developed machine learning classifiers to identify tweets that pertain to firearm deaths and develop estimates of the volume of…
October 7, 2022
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Event – MDI Distinguished Lecture “The Unpredictability of Life Outcomes” by Dr. Matthew J. Salganik
On October 26, 2022 from 3:00-4:00pm at Copley Formal Lounge, the McCourt School of Public Policy’s Massive Data Institute (MDI) will host the inaugural MDI Distinguished…
September 30, 2022
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Massive Data Institute Announces Fall 2022 MDI Scholars
With the start of the academic year, the Massive Data Institute (MDI) is pleased to announce our Fall 2022 MDI Scholars Cohort. The MDI Scholars program was launched in 2019 and…
September 29, 2022