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Parkdale High School Students and UMD Team Up to Mitigate Local Flooding

June 5, 2023 | Laurie Robinson

A new partnership between INFO and ARCH will educate youth in critical data science and help them become environmental stewards.

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Maryland Today: When a Cat Video Elicits More Than Warm Fuzzies (ft. Susannah Paletz)

May 10, 2023 | Maggie Haslam | UMD

Researchers Look at Human Responses to ‘Cuteness’ in Social Media

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(Video) SoDa Symposium: A Dialogue at the Intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Social Data Science Methods

April 21, 2023 | UMD INFO Staff

INFO Professor Jen Golbeck and JPSM instructor Jen Romano spoke on a panel moderated by INFO Professor Wayne Lutters.

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Let’s Chat About AI on Campus (ft. Jessica Vitak)

April 11, 2023 | Maryland Today Staff

Rise of Eerily Convincing Language Models Spurs Hopes, Fears About Impact on Education

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Data Everywhere: Making Sense of Our Digital Landscape

March 30, 2023 | Laurie Robinson

INFO, UMIACS, CMNS, as part of the UMD Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL), unlock the potential of ubiquitous data.

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(Video) SoDa Symposium: Social Data Science Research, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship

March 28, 2023 | UMD INFO Staff

Presenters discussed innovation, entrepreneurship in social data science, and creators on social media.

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(Video) Data Journalism: Using Data to Tell Impactful Stories

February 14, 2023 | UMD INFO Staff

A panel of experts discuss how data can transform storytelling.