CCPR Affiliates Receive Transdisciplinary Seed Grants

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Four teams involving CCPR affiliates received Transdisciplinary Seed Grants in the 2017 competition.  Projects involving big data were a particular focus of the competition this year.  Congratulations to:

  • How Stories Live: Using Big Data to Understand the Diversity Dynamics of Folktales -Jacob Foster (with Timothy Tangherlini)
  • Reducing Homelessness in LA using Big Data and Predictive Modeling, Mark Handcock and Till von Wachter. Funding joint with the Clinical & Translational Science Institute
  • Visual Big Data: Using Images to Understand Protests -Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld (with Jungseock Joo)
  • Leveraging Highly Granular Data in Sampling and Analysis of Political Surveys – Erin Hartman (with Lynn Vavreck)