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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 …

Image: From Alphabet Inc.'s defunct Sidewalk Labs: Quayside project, Toronto.
REAL LIFE MAG: Seeing Without Looking
Sidewalk Toronto is dead, but its legacy shows there are more ways to violate one’s privacy than collecting one’s image.

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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 …

Dr. Tamara Clegg alongside Rubble from one of Nickelodeon’s newest shows, PAW Patrol.
iSchool Professor Dr. Tamara Clegg Stars in Nickelodeon Commercial
Clegg is an expert in youth experience and digital practices working with Nickelodeon to enhance its online learning platform, Noggin.

PhD Alumni Spotlight: Science is a Social Process – Pengyi Zhang, ‘10
Connecting people with technology to enhance decision making, foster collaborative learning, and create more inclusive online communiti …

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.