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Ph.D. Student Spotlight: Linnea Gandhi
Kicking off our Ph.D. Student Spotlight series, Summer 2022 features Linnea Gandhi, a rising third-year Ph.D. student taking the lead in the CSSLab’s work on enabling cumulative science.Linnea Gandhi is a rising third-year Ph.D. in Operations, Information, &...
Researcher Spotlight: James Houghton
As a key figure in the CSSLab’s work on high-throughput virtual lab experiments, post-doctoral researcher James Houghton aims to refocus social science around large-scale, data-driven insights. In this researcher spotlight, he shares about his path to computational...
End-of-Year Check-In: Celebrating the CSSLab’s Students
The CSSLab’s research assistants and Ph.D. students play a vital role in advancing the Lab’s diverse research projects. As the Spring 2022 semester comes to a close, we would like to highlight and celebrate some of our students’ recent accomplishments, various...
From Seahawks Fan to 2022 NFL Big Data Bowl Finalist: How American Football Shaped Tai Nguyen’s Journey
2022 Big Data Bowl finalists Ryan Gross, Joseph Rudoler, Tai Nguyen, and Ryan Brill present “Optimal Run Path For Kick Returners.”There’s nothing more American than football. Penn graduate student Tai Nguyen figured that out soon after arriving in the United States...
The Data Will Save Us: An Interview with CSSLab Director Duncan Watts
The data will save us — Or at least, that’s the hope of Wharton professor Duncan Watts, whose new initiative, the Penn Media Accountability Project, aims to expose bias in journalism by building a huge database of news for researchers and journalism watchdogs to...
Navigating the challenges of data-driven research
The CSSLab’s Research Data Engineer, Yingquan Li, offers his perspective on data-driven social science and the challenges facing the new field of CSS.ABOVE: Yingquan Li (third from right), the CSSLab's Research Data Engineer, at an AWS-sponsored event.In its first...
Applications open: Penn Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
The Penn Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS-Penn) is open for applications! SICSS-Penn will bring together early-career researchers and provide opportunities for networking with Computational Social Science colleagues, interdisciplinary research...
Preparing student RAs for success on the tech job market
How does working at the CSSLab impact student researchers’ career goals and experiences on the job market? We asked two of the Lab’s graduate student research assistants, Keith Golden and Kailun Li, about their experiences at various stages of their job searches.While...
Researcher spotlight: Mark Whiting
Spearheading the CSSLab’s work on high-throughput virtual lab experiments on group dynamics, Mark Whiting is helping to define the paradigm of large-scale, data-driven social science research. In this researcher spotlight, he outlines his research trajectory and...
Empirica Stories: Using online multiplayer experiments to study team hierarchy
Originally published on the Empirica blogWelcome to “Empirica Stories”, a series in which we highlight innovative research from the Empirica community, showcasing the possibilities of virtual lab experiments! In our first interview, we highlight the creative work of...