Measuring Belief in Fake News Online
A Lecture by Joshua A. Tucker
Professor of Politics, New York University


 

How well can ordinary people identify the veracity of news in real time? In this lecture, Professor Joshua Tucker — Professor of Politics, affiliated Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, and affiliated Professor of Data Science at New York University — will report on his recent research, which involved disseminating diverse news articles to both ordinary citizens and professional fact checkers and analyzing the individual-level characteristics of those likely to incorrectly identify false news stories as true, the results of interventions to attempt to reduce the prevalence of this behavior, and the prospects for crowdsourcing to serve as a viable means for identifying false news stories in real time. He will also report preliminary findings from a replication of this study focusing exclusively on news about COVID-19.

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Public Education Specialist

The Division of Computing, Data Science and Society, Data Science Undergraduate Studies is hiring a Modules Coordinator - Public Education Specialist. The Public Education Specialist position involves designing, conducting, promoting, and supporting various public educational programs such as Modules:  Data Made Accessible to Many and Data Scholars. The incumbent is responsible for researching and assessing educational needs and interests for targeted public segments and develops programs, materials, technology, and learning approaches accordingly.

This position is available to internal applicants only.

To learn more about the position and the application process, please view here!

Graduate Student Assistant 4 Position

Evaluating Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Outcomes and Achievement as part of the Academic Program Review (APR) process.
 

This Student Assistant 4 (graduate student) position is a joint appointment through the Division of Undergraduate Education (VCUE) and Division of Academic Planning (VPAP). It will reside in the VCUE Immediate Office as part of the VCUE Data Team, reporting to the VCUE Institutional Research Analyst. The Student Assistant will form part of the team that provides support to departments undergoing an Academic Program Review (APR).  The APR process is an essential element in Berkeley’s institutional accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). 
 

Each semester, three to five departments initiate their APR process. The Student Assistant will: 1) work with those departments interested in consultations on student learning outcomes (SLO) as part of the departmental self-study. Including setting and mapping SLOs, selecting instruments best suited to evaluating student achievement of program-level learning outcomes; 2) create a flexible, reproducible process for evaluations of student learning outcomes.
 

Compensation:

We are looking for a graduate student who can commit to eight (8) hours per week for the spring semester of 2021. Hourly salary range $24.46 - $29.49; salary will be determined based on Departmental guidelines and policies. This appointment is not eligible for fee remission.

How to Apply:

Please submit a brief cover letter explaining your interest in the position, your resume and contact details for at least one departmental reference to Audrey Thomas at VCUE_DataTeam@berkeley.edu, subject line: APR Student Assistant 4 application

Applications received by Wednesday, February 10 will be given full consideration.

WiDS: Women in Data Science Berkeley Conference

March 8-12 | Register for Zoom

WiDS Berkeley (see last year's agenda, 2021 coming soon) is a satellite event associated with the Women in Data Science conference at Stanford.

As part of this year's conference, we want to highlight the exceptional data science work completed by students at UC Berkeley. On Wednesday, March 10 from 11 am -12 pm, we will host a session of lightning talks (5-10 mins) that showcase completed and/or in-progress data science projects led by UC Berkeley students.

Conference organizers will review proposal submissions for 1) appropriateness and relevance of the topic to the field of data science, 2) impact in terms of practice and/or recommendations, 3) evidence of ethical research practice, and 4) organization & clarity.

Deadline for submission: January 31, 2021

To submit your proposal submission please visit here!

 

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Love Data Week, February 8 - 12, 2021


Celebrate Love Data Week by joining us for a series of events from February 8 through February 12, 2021. This year, the UC campuses are partnering to celebrate this nationwide campaign designed to raise awareness and build community around research data. Tune in for sessions that explore topics related to data ethics, data security, and much more! All members of the UC community are invited to attend. Click here to see the schedule for all UC events and register.
 

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Webinar on Restricted Use Health Data, February 11, 2021

The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) provides researchers access to restricted-use, confidential, national survey microdata at their Research Data Centers (NCHS RDCs) and at the 30 Federal Statistical Research Data Centers (FSRDCs) spread across the country, including the Berkeley FSRDC. On Feb 11 from 10-11:30am the Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) is hosting a webinar with the CDC to discuss NCHS survey datasets and how to access them. Click here to learn more and register. For info on accessing NCHS and other restricted use federal administrative datasets here at Berkeley, see the Berkeley FSRDC web page.
 

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Cal Data Visualization Network (CDVN)

The CDVN works to give staff opportunities to network, share ideas, and grow their skill sets. To that end, we collaborate with other, like-minded communities of practice on campus to share learning opportunities.

Here at the CDVN, we are dedicated to learning good data analysis and visualization practices, platform-agnostic, always open to learning, welcome to all staff, and dedicated to sharing knowledge in the efforts of empowering our staff.

To get a glimpse of the CDVN in action, check out one of their peer-led social learning groups!

Tableau Mastermind Meeting:  Tuesday, Feb 9th | 11 am | Zoom Link


To learn more about the network and for instructions on signing up for their mailing list and calendar info, please visit here!

http://uroc.berkeley.edu/

ReThink Media Research and Analysis Internship

ReThink media seeks a graduate student with R or Python programming skills to assist our Research & Analysis Team. This internship will provide an opportunity to develop your data wrangling and analysis skills while helping inform communications strategies for advocacy groups working on a range of social justice issues.

ReThink Media’s Research & Analysis Team conducts message testing and public opinion research, tracks public polling, analyzes media coverage and social media conversations about our issues, and manages data about our programs’ impact.

ReThink Media’s paid internship program provides talented undergraduate and graduate students (and recent students) with hands-on experience in the field of issue advocacy communications and applied research and analysis.

To learn more about the position and how to apply view here!
 

Social Science Matrix is seeking an advanced social science graduate student to be a program assistant.
 

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Program Assistant position available at Social Science Matrix

Social Science Matrix is a cross-disciplinary research unit in the College of  Letters and Science within the Social Sciences Division. We are an incubator for early stage, interdisciplinary research and we work to promote  social science research on campus. Critical to this work are the public- and campus-facing events we organize, which include lecture series, workshops, colloquia, conferences, book talks, and panel discussions. Our events seek to draw on the breadth and depth of research expertise within and beyond the Social Science Division, examining important  topics and ideas that are reforming the contours of social science research today. This Spring semester all  programming will be online only and the program assistant will work remotely.

 

We seek a graduate student to help develop, organize and publicize some of our public events and programs,including our annual call for proposals for  research teams.

The position will be a 50% position, starting immediately with an end date in June 2021.

Please apply with a resume/CV and two short writing samples that summarize some kind of social science research.

Questions and submissions should be directed to evaseto@berkeley.edu.

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Paid Graduate Positions at the D-Lab

Become a D-Lab Consultant!

D-Lab is looking for graduate students familiar with a range of qualitative, quantitative, computational, and data methods, tools, languages, and software to join our consulting team on an hourly basis. You determine how many hours and when to work, allowing you to easily fit this into your current schedule. If you're interested in developing your skills by helping others through consulting, then please fill out this survey.