Data Analytics Research

Statistics are essentially “numbers about the state” but what does one do when working for a state under conditions that make it difficult to report in an accurate and timely way? Writing in The Atlantic, […]

Humans are incredibly good at anthropomorphizing all manner of entities. Even very young children attribute human character and capacities to pets, stuffed animals, and inanimate objects. Adults attribute gender and related human characteristics to ships, […]

With the development of artificial intelligence advancing rapidly in recent years, the prospects for applications in the social sciences seem more and more within reach. A recent paper on generative agents by Joon Sung Park […]

Writing in PC Magazine, Kate Irwin reports that California has updated its Consumer Privacy Protection Act to include neural data as a type of protected personal data. With the growth of applications that collect brain […]

With the development and growing popularity of large language models, various concerns have been raised. These concerns have included the quality of the information generated, the fairness of how individuals and groups are represented in […]

An article in The Verge reports on action taken by the Danish privacy regulator that will require cities in Denmark to provide assurances that student data transferred to Google via Chromebooks and Google Workspace complies […]

Because the dominant contemporary approaches to artificial intelligence take an inductive approach, they represent less of a radical departure in human thought and more of an acceleration or super charging of it. Thus, it should […]

Your Car is Reporting on You — Generations of drivers and their passengers have come to view the automobile as a private space free from the prying eyes of friends, relatives, co-workers and others, but […]