Anderson /cs/ en CU 麻豆影院 receives $1 million grant to fund minority PhD STEM students /cs/2022/08/25/cu-boulder-receives-1-million-grant-fund-minority-phd-stem-students CU 麻豆影院 receives $1 million grant to fund minority PhD STEM students Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/25/2022 - 14:54 News Admissions Anderson Awards Grace Wilson The fellowship will provide tuition support, a $34,000 stipend for two years and a unique support system for 12 students to advance their PhD studies and research in computer science and other fields. window.location.href = `/engineering/2022/08/23/cu-boulder-receives-1-million-grant-fund-minority-phd-stem-students`;

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When disaster strikes, those affected often turn to social media to request aid, offer assistance, or share other information in real time. In recent years, data scientists have begun analyzing millions of Facebook posts and tweets in order to study the collective response before, during and after a crisis. 

In the face of this mountain of information, however, it can be hard to identify the most relevant posts and trends. But thanks to a close collaboration between social science and software engineering, 麻豆影院 researchers Leysia Palen and Kenneth Anderson are innovating new ways to find the underlying human behaviors hidden within noisy data.

鈥淭he trick is understanding the potential of large-volume social media information along with its limits,鈥 says Palen, chair of the  in the  at CU 麻豆影院. 鈥淛ust because we have a lot of data doesn鈥檛 mean that we have all the answers.鈥

 

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