Matrix News
Published December 17, 2015
Crowdsourcing Social Research
The capability to democratically distribute tasks within a directed project presents novel possibilities for researchers—and social scientists at UC Berkeley are taking advantage.
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Published July 7, 2015
Hacking Measurement
A Social Science Matrix research seminar on "Technology for Measurement" is dedicated to developing new solutions for gathering social data from a variety of sources.
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Article
Published July 1, 2015
Speech on the Brain
A UCSF neuroscientist and UC Berkeley linguist team up for leading-edge research that could one day help give speech back to stroke victims and people with paralyses.
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Article
Published April 23, 2015
Emmanuel Letouzé: “Data for Development”
UC Berkeley demographer (and cartoonist) Emmanuel Letouzé seeks to reduce the gap in statistical data available about populations in developing nations.
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Article
Published December 9, 2014
A New World of Mapping
UC Berkeley cartographer Darin Jensen is exploring novel ways to detail information about the world around us.
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Published November 7, 2014
UC Berkeley Research Network Graph
Social Science Matrix is building an interactive data visualization tool to highlight collaborations among UC faculty and students.
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Published October 7, 2014
Behavior Measurement and Change
A Matrix seminar explored how mobile devices and other "sensors" are transforming how social scientists working in different disciplines can measure—and change—human behavior.
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Article
Published August 1, 2014
Seeking New Models for Clinical Medicine
A new Social Science Matrix seminar is focused on finding radical new approaches to clinical health care.
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Article
Published July 29, 2014
Social Networks from History
A new tool developed by a team at UC Berkeley can help build “prosopographies,” social networks based on names, affiliations, and other historical data.
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