ICSR Events

Upcoming events

AWS Machine Learning – The Grad Project

Ben Lewis and Jessy Han will represent the Policing vertical in an online event on Tuesday, September 19, 2023. Ben and Jessy discuss their work on creating datasets using criminal justice, housing, social media, and other public data linked to areas in our society most influenced by systemic racism. Register now via LinkedIn.

Past events

2023

Big Data & Systemic Racism – Microchat @ MIT Diversity Leadership Conference
Monday, January 30 – 2:30-3:30pm – Zoom

Chris Hays and Erin Walk lead a group discussion on how ICSR combines data science with the extensive social science literature on systemic racism to develop and harness computational tools that can help effect structural and normative change towards racial equity. They discussed the role that algorithms play in the proliferation of extremism online – be it white nationalism or other toxic social phenomena – and how it affects online and offline behavior.