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Maryland Giving Day – March 9, 2022
Read about one student's inspirational story and how Giving Day is helped her pursue a degree in information science.
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Expanding the Possibilities for Accessible Data Visualization
iSchool professor and Trace affiliate faculty Dr. Niklas Elmqvist leads a team to continue work on accessible data visualization and to …
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(Video) SoDa Symposium: Trustworthiness in Social Data Science
Researchers from UMD and Cornell University discuss the ethical dilemmas in social data science and how ethnographic studies can help g …
Seven iSchool Undergraduates Join UMD’s First Sprinternship™
The students worked to create solutions to cybersecurity, IT, and other tech challenges while exploring career opportunities in informa …
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Social Data Science Major to Debut in February
New B.S. degree program to teach students how to collect, analyze data for fast-growing fields.
HR Brew: Employee surveillance is exploding with remote work (feat. Jessica Vitak)
Journalist Sam Blum examines how the expansion of worker surveillance runs the risk of shattering employees’ trust.
HCIL Founder Receives IEEE Test of Time Award for Treemap Research
The award recognizes a conference paper from 20 years ago whose contents have had a major impact within and beyond the visualization co …
