Important links:
- Our official CAASI website at Pitt.
- Allegheny County Policing Project (ACPP) police contract library (project website, paper (pdf) ) .
- 412Connect community asset scavenger hunt (project website – create an account with .edu email, paper (pdf)).
- The Data Science for Social Justice (DS4SJ) Ecosystem Pitt SEED Project (video)
- Our PIA 2250 Public Interest Technology class (syllabus)
News about CAASI :
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• Professor wins Chancellor’s Distinguished Service Award (March 2, 2023)
• GSPIA article: CAASI idea of bridging education in social justice and data science wins Intel XPRIZE REA Competition (Nov 3, 2022)
• XPRIZE Announcement: Meet the winners of the Racial Equity Alliance (REA) Ideas Competition (Nov 1, 2022)
• IndoFocus Keynote: the CAASI DS4SJ project (Oct 22, 2022)
• ACPP Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization conference (EAAMO) talk (Oct 8, 2022)
• DS4SJ talk at Connecting Technology and Humans panel at the Center for Advancing Human Machine Partnership at GMU (Oct 5, 2022)
• CAASI’s DS4SJ project is one of ten semi-finalists for Pitt Seed Projects, transformative projects that support Pitt’s strategic objectives (June 2022)
• University Times GSPIA’s Scope-a-thon article (April 13, 2022)
• ACPP Partnerships of Distinction Award Announcement in University Times (March 17, 2022) . See also announcement from the Intelligent Systems Program.
• PittWire on DS4SJ project: Twenty-five transformative project proposals have made it to phase three of the revamped Pitt Seed competition (March 7, 2022).
• Carnegie Mellon University Metro 21 talk on CAASI’s student-driven community-engaged data activism Grief to Action ( Feb 21, 2022)
• PittNews: Pitt Year of Data and Society steering committee interview (Jan 12, 2022)
• PittWire coverage of ACPP (Dec 14, 2021)
• 1Hood Media Power Hour talk on the launch of Allegheny County Policing Project (ACPP) ( Nov 22, 2021)
• Announcement of YoDS funding for new CAASI class PIA 2250 (Developing a #DS4SJ Curriculum at Pitt) (Nov 19, 2021)
• ACPP launch at the Year of Data and Society seminar series (Nov 19, 2021)
• Accolades on 412Connect’s EAAMO New Horizon Award (Nov 8, 2021)
• 412Connect Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization conference (EAAMO) talk (Oct 2021)
• 412Connect Year of Data and Society (YoDS) talk (Sept 8, 2021)
• 412Connect Year of Data and Society (YoDS) article (Sept 8, 2021)
• 412Connect: From the Classroom to the Community (April 6, 2021)
• MD4SG’s Medium blog post on my tutorial at EC’20 with Sam Taggart: Models and obstacles for targeting vulnerable groups — an economics and computer science perspective ( Dec 9, 2020)