This year’s midterm elections are unlikely to break the political impasse currently rankling the nation, the Huffington Post’s senior data scientist told a Yale audience recently.At the panel discussion (from left) Jacob Hacker, David Mayhew, Eitan Hersh...
True to recent history, the 2014 elections featured an electorate largely critical of a president midway through his second term in office, Yale political scientists said. The only surprise was the degree of discontent.“The election had more of a...
Hundreds of Yale students, faculty, and staff silently splayed themselves out in the street on Dec. 5 to protest the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown Jr., and other black men and women during altercations with police.The demonstration extended for...
A new study finds that children who received expanded Medicaid benefits in the 1980s and 1990s contributed more to the U.S. tax system as adults. They also were more likely to attend college and less likely to die prematurely in adulthood.The study is...
This week a group of U.S. senators highlighted the research of Yale sociologist Justin Farrell and others during discussion of a proposed resolution to condemn what they called a “web of denial” on issues including climate change.Yale sociologist Justin...
From quantifying the wisdom of crowds to measuring polarization in political speech, data science is enhancing a wide range of social science research.
On Oct. 20, Yale held its first Data Science Workshop, a daylong event focused on computational social...