Join us for a panel discussion on the social demography of homelessness which will showcase an interdisciplinary panel of researchers inside and outside of academia.

• Gregg Colburn, Assistant Professor, UW College of Built Environments and CSDE Affiliate
• Seema Clifasefi, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Co-Director, Harm Reduction Research & Treatment Center
• Natasha Rivers, Sustainability & Measurement Program Manager, BECU

CSDE is now offering workshops on the topics below, each designed to complement formal course instruction. Click on any workshop to learn more and register:

• Intro to GIS – Matt Dunbar (Nov. 15 and 22, 9:30-11:30 AM)
• Intro to R – Yuan Hsiao (Nov. 19, 3:30-5:30 PM)
• Intro to Stata – Christine Leibbrand (Dec. 6, 9:30-11:30 AM)

CSDE announces student presenters who will be sharing their research at the upcoming Lightning Talks & Poster Session: Kathy Jung (Dept. of Economics), Nicole Kovski (Evans School of Public Policy, Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center), Hannah Lee (Dept. of Sociology), Claire Rothschild (Dept. of Epidemiology, Kenya Research & Training Center, Global WACh) Esteban Valencia (Dept. of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Center of Excellence in Maternal & Child Health), and Hunter York (Dept. of Global Health)

CSDE Director Sara Curran, CSDE Affiliate and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Emilio Zagheni, and CSDE Trainee Neal Marquez will present at the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS) First Annual Academy on November 5th. Sara will present on natural disaster impacts on population dynamics and Neal will present on geographic variation of demographic processes among Hispanic populations in the US. Emilio will chair various presentations and participate in thesis advisory committees with Sara.

CSDE Affiliate and Professor of Public Policy Leigh Anderson joined the editorial board of the new open source Cambridge University Press journal Data & Policy. Editors S. Verhulst, Z. Engin and J. Crowcroft describe the goals of the journal in the opening editorial. Here is the excerpt:

“Data & Policy is a venue for peer-reviewed research and discussion about the potential for and impact of data science on policy. Our aim is to provide a nuanced and multistranded assessment of the potential and challenges involved in using data for policy and to bridge the “two cultures” of science and humanism—as CP Snow famously described in his lecture on “Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution” (Snow, 1959). By doing so, we also seek to bridge the two other dichotomies that limit an examination of datafication and is interaction with policy from various angles: the divide between practice and scholarship; and between private and public".