Month: May 2019

Critical illness and injury is a silent epidemic that impacts more than 5.7 million Americans every year. It has an enormous societal and economic toll, and in recent years, progress in critical care research has grown more reliant on the ability to gather, store, search and analyze big data. Two teams at the University of ...

Ceren Budak, U-M SI assistant professor and MIDAS researcher, is among one of the first research teams to have access to anonymous data from Facebook. She will be studying social media’s impact on democracy in the United States. The study will look at how sharing behaviors on Facebook are affected by changes Facebook makes to the ...

ICPSR led by Maggie Levenstein, a MIDAS faculty member, was awarded the 2019 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. This award is given to institutions that provide dynamic programming and services exceeding the expected levels. More information may be found here: https://mailchi.mp/umich/icpsr-recognized-as-a-2019-recipient-of-nations-highest-museum-and-library-honor?e=4d027b48ec.

This research was supported by funding from the Michigan Institute for Data Science. Title The Effect of Social Interaction on Facilitating Audience Participation in a Live Music Performance Published in ACM, June 23-26, 2019 Authors Sang Won Lee, Aaron Willette, Danai Koutra, Walter S. Lasecki Abstract Facilitating audience participation in a music performance brings with it challenges in ...