Detecting Extreme Speech in YouTube Videos
Partner: Media Cloud DS4CG 2023. With the current surge in multimodal media shared online, particularly from platforms like YouTube and Instagram, the need for multimodal
Extracting Bylines from Media in Multiple Languages
Partner: Media Cloud DS4CG 2023. In an increasingly digital landscape for media across the globe, the need for content moderation, misinformation detection, and bias analysis
Analysis of #StopAsianHate on Twitter
Partner: Co-Insights DS4CG 2023. This project takes a longitudinal approach to analyzing the #StopAsianHate hashtag on Twitter in order to understand changes in hashtag usage.
Reddit Map
Reddit Map is an open-source tool that makes navigating Reddit data easier by displaying clusters of communities with overlapping community members.
Data Profiling for Fairness
As part of the Data Science for the Common Good summer program, students investigated potential issues in data-driven systems that contribute to algorithmic fairness, in order to help data practitioners understand and identify these issues in their data and the related machine learning tasks.
Detecting Objects in the Murals of Pompeii
Associate Professor Eric Poehler of the UMass Classics department has thousands of photographic images of frescoed walls in Pompeii, the ancient city that was buried after the eruption of