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SoDA is the integration of social scientific, computational, informational, statistical, and visual analytic approaches to the analysis of large or complex data that arise from human interaction. SoDA merges social science and data science to improve our ability to learn from social data. The mission of the Center for Social Data Analytics (C-SoDA) is to support science at Penn State that advances the state-of-the art in computationally and/or data intensive social research. We are organized along three broad sub-missions. The first is to facilitate and amplify faculty and student research programs that feature a SoDA focus. The second is to broaden and diversify the community of scholars who are engaged with, and engaged in, SoDA research. The third sub-mission is to, in close connection with the undergraduate and graduate programs in SoDA, integrate undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral scholars, into the SoDA research community at Penn State. Analytics.

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Fall 2022 C-SoDA Kick-off event poster presentation
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Isaac Pollert, presents his poster at the Fall 2022 C-SoDA Kick-off Event
Predoctoral Research Associate, Muhammed Kafi Cifci standing by his poster
Predoctoral Research Associate, Muhammed Kafi Cifci, presents his poster at the Fall 2022 C-SoDA Kick-off Event
The final class of BDSS-IGERT Trainees (2018). Robbie Zuchowski (Sociology & Demography), Amy Zhang (Statistics), Steve Morgan (Political Science), Mark Simpson (Geography), Sara Francisco (Sociology), Brittany Freelin (Criminology), Claire Kelling (Statistics), Shipi Dhanorkar (Informatics), Michelle Nixon (Statistics), Xiaoran Sun (Human Development & Family Studies).
The final class of BDSS-IGERT Trainees (2018). Robbie Zuchowski (Sociology & Demography), Amy Zhang (Statistics), Steve Morgan (Political Science), Mark Simpson (Geography), Sara Francisco (Sociology), Brittany Freelin (Criminology), Claire Kelling (Statistics), Shipi Dhanorkar (Informatics), Michelle Nixon (Statistics), Xiaoran Sun (Human Development & Family Studies).
The final class of BDSS-IGERT Trainees (2018). Robbie Zuchowski (Sociology & Demography), Amy Zhang (Statistics), Steve Morgan (Political Science), Mark Simpson (Geography), Sara Francisco (Sociology), Brittany Freelin (Criminology), Claire Kelling (Statistics), Shipi Dhanorkar (Informatics), Michelle Nixon (Statistics), Xiaoran Sun (Human Development & Family Studies).
The final class of BDSS-IGERT Trainees (2018). Robbie Zuchowski (Sociology & Demography), Amy Zhang (Statistics), Steve Morgan (Political Science), Mark Simpson (Geography), Sara Francisco (Sociology), Brittany Freelin (Criminology), Claire Kelling (Statistics), Shipi Dhanorkar (Informatics), Michelle Nixon (Statistics), Xiaoran Sun (Human Development & Family Studies).
BDSS-IGERT Trainees present their research rotation projects (2014). C-SoDA now hosts such poster sessions to showcase interdisciplinary SoDA student research.
BDSS-IGERT Trainees present their research rotation projects (2014). C-SoDA now hosts such poster sessions to showcase interdisciplinary SoDA student research.
BDSS-IGERT Trainees present their research rotation projects (2014). C-SoDA now hosts such poster sessions to showcase interdisciplinary SoDA student research.
BDSS-IGERT Trainees present their research rotation projects (2014). C-SoDA now hosts such poster sessions to showcase interdisciplinary SoDA student research.
Five of the 2019 New Faces in Political Methodology -- Sarah Shugars (NU), Desmond Wallace (Iowa), Therese Anders (USC, top), Rachael McLellan (Princeton), & Pedro Rodríguez (NYU) -- cap off their visit with a trip to the shrine.
Five of the 2019 New Faces in Political Methodology -- Sarah Shugars (NU), Desmond Wallace (Iowa), Therese Anders (USC, top), Rachael McLellan (Princeton), & Pedro Rodríguez (NYU) -- cap off their visit with a trip to the shrine.
First cohort of trainees for the BDSS-IGERT program (2012). Jennifer Mason (Geography, now @ U Arizona), Muhammed Idris (Political Science, now @ Concordia U), Beatrice Abiero (Health Policy, now @ Ipsos Public Affairs), Molly Ariotti (Political Science, now @ U Georgia), Josh Stevens (Geography, now @ NASA), Stephanie Wilson (Human Development & Family Studies, now @ SMU), Mo Yu (Informatics, now @ Google)
Five of the 2019 New Faces in Political Methodology -- Sarah Shugars (NU), Desmond Wallace (Iowa), Therese Anders (USC, top), Rachael McLellan (Princeton), & Pedro Rodríguez (NYU) -- cap off their visit with a trip to the shrine.

News

Sarah Rajtmajer to speaker on AI, the Data Rescue Project Dual-Title Ph.D. Student Gets Article Published C-SoDA Faculty Affiliate, Diane Felmelee and Ph.D. Student, Haoyang Zhang get Article Published Desmarais, Rajtmajer, and Munger receive NSF Grant Several C-SoDA Faculty and Graduate Students Present at 2023 PolMeth Conference C-SoDA Postdoctoral Fellows Present at State Politics and Policy Conference View All News

Events

Jan 22 12:15 PM The Center for Social Data Analytics Speaker Series Presents: Derek Ruths Mar 19 12:00 PM The Center for Social Data Analytics Speaker Series Presents: Nadiya Kostyuk (Carnegie Mellon University) View All Events

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