News: Data science
Reimagining Collaboration in Mental Health, Societal Bias and Black Communities With Microsoft
CSSW Professor Desmond Upton Patton works with the tech giant to shape new AI strategies that take into account the…
Courtney Cogburn Receives Grant to Analyze Twitter Discourse on #BlackLivesMatter
The project will analyze, on a large scale, the emotionally charged social media exchanges that follow the police killings of…
The Awards Keep Coming for Newly Tenured Professor Desmond Patton
The associate professor of social work and director of Columbia’s SAFE Lab has had a string of recent successes, including…
New Study: Responses to Grief Predict Aggressive Tweets Among Gang-Involved Chicago Youth
Mounting evidence suggests a possible link between threats of violence on social media and real-world retaliations, fights, and shootings. In…
Assistant Professor Desmond Patton Receives Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center Fellowship
Columbia School of Social Work Assistant Professor Desmond U. Patton has been named as a 2017–18 fellow at the Berkman…
Professor Desmond Patton Collaborates with Data Scientist on ROADS-funded Project to Prevent Gang Violence
Firearm-related violence is up in major American cities in 2016. While we may not be facing the apocalypse Republican presidential…
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