Aug 29, 2024 | Featured, News
PIK professor Duncan Watts is out with an AI-enhanced tool to gauge the partisan lean and tone of some mainstream news outlets. When Duncan Watts and his colleagues at Penn’s Computational Social Science Lab began work in January on a new tool that uses artificial...
Aug 13, 2024 | Featured, Group Dynamics, News
Emily Hu, a fourth year Wharton Operations, Information, and Decisions PhD student at the Computational Social Science Lab (CSSLab), has just launched her award-winning Team Communication Toolkit at the Academy of Management Conference on August 12 in Chicago. This...
Jul 29, 2024 | COVID Philadelphia, Featured, News
Epidemic modeling is a framework for evaluating the location and timing of disease transmission events, and is a part of the larger field of human mobility science. The COVID-19 pandemic put existing epidemic models to the test, with many institutions and corporations...
Jul 1, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP
PIK Professor Duncan Watts and colleagues have developed the Media Bias Detector, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze news articles, examining factors like tone, partisan lean, and fact selection. (Image: Tero Vesalainen) The 2024 U.S. presidential debates...
Jul 1, 2024 | Featured, News, PennMAP
A new study from the Computational Social Science Lab shows that while online misinformation exists, it isn’t as pervasive as pundits and the press suggest. In 2006, Facebook launched its News Feed feature, sparking seemingly endless contentious public discourse on...
