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November 2024 News & Events
News and Opportunities
The NEW American Voices Project
In a recent conference cosponsored by the CPI, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, top social scientists and computer scientists gathered to discuss how the American Voices Project could be converted into a permanent real-time platform for delivering public-use qualitative data on the low-income population. The participants examined how this new platform could be used to uncover the “dark matter” that underlies human behavior, to detect emerging sentiments and attitudes, and to carry out other types of real-time monitoring that conventional surveys may miss.
A Public Platform for Open Mixed-Methods Research
The CPI was recently awarded a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to build an AI-assisted platform for delivering the American Voices Project dataset to scholars, students, and journalists. This project will be led by the AVP team in collaboration with Chris Bail, a computational social scientist at Duke University, and DiYi Yang, a computer scientist at Stanford University.
Visiting Scholar from Sciences Po
We are delighted to welcome Yann Renisio, an associate scientist at Sciences Po in Paris, to the CPI. The goal of Yann’s research: To better understand why people do what they do by examining what people are able to do, what they claim to do, and what they actually do. His current work includes studies on admissions to higher education in Sweden, the specialization of medical doctors in France, the gap between self-reported behaviors and actual practices in online music consumption, the mapping of scientific knowledge in the Czech Republic, and intra-individual occupational mobility. Welcome Yann!
Visiting General Secretary from Sciences Po
We are also delighted to welcome Linda Amrani to the CPI. Linda is the General Secretary of the Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS) at Sciences Po/CNRS in Paris. Her center, CRIS, is dedicated to research on the multidimensionality of social inequalities in contemporary societies. At the Stanford CPI, she will deepen her knowledge of the management, implementation and valorization of international projects. She is particularly interested in the Voices Lab. Welcome Linda!