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Detecting and Enhancing Intellectual Humility in Online Political Discourse
Samantha D'Alonzo, Rachel Chen, Weidong Zhang +7
Intellectual humility (IH)-a recognition of one's own intellectual limitations-can reduce polarization and foster more understanding across lines of difference. Yet little work exp…
Human-AI Narrative Synthesis to Foster Shared Understanding in Civic Decision-Making
Cassandra Overney, Hang Jiang, Urooj Haider +6
Community engagement processes in representative political contexts, like school districts, generate massive volumes of feedback that overwhelm traditional synthesis methods, creat…
A community-driven optimization framework for redrawing school attendance boundaries
Hongzhao Guan, Paul Riggins, Tyler Simko +8
The vast majority of US public school districts use school attendance boundaries to determine which student addresses are assigned to which schools. Existing work shows how redrawi…
Computational Social Science and Critical Studies of Education and Technology: An Improbable Combination?
Rebecca Eynon, Nabeel Gillani
As belief around the potential of computational social science grows, fuelled by recent advances in machine learning, data scientists are ostensibly becoming the new experts in edu…
BoundarEase: Fostering Constructive Community Engagement to Inform More Equitable Student Assignment Policies
Cassandra Overney, Cassandra Moe, Alvin Chang +1
School districts across the United States (US) play a pivotal role in shaping access to quality education through their student assignment policies -- most prominently, school atte…
Merging public elementary schools to reduce racial/ethnic segregation
Madison Landry, Nabeel Gillani
Diverse schools can help address implicit biases and increase empathy, mutual respect, and reflective thought by fostering connections between students from different racial/ethnic…
The Computational Anatomy of Humility: Modeling Intellectual Humility in Online Public Discourse
Xiaobo Guo, Neil Potnis, Melody Yu +2
The ability for individuals to constructively engage with one another across lines of difference is a critical feature of a healthy pluralistic society. This is also true in online…
Contextual Stochastic Optimization for School Desegregation Policymaking
Hongzhao Guan, Nabeel Gillani, Tyler Simko +2
Most US school districts draw geographic "attendance zones" to assign children to schools based on their home address, a process that can replicate existing neighborhood racial/eth…
FeedbackMap: a tool for making sense of open-ended survey responses
Doug Beeferman, Nabeel Gillani
Analyzing open-ended survey responses is a crucial yet challenging task for social scientists, non-profit organizations, and educational institutions, as they often face the trade-…
Impacts of Differential Privacy on Fostering more Racially and Ethnically Diverse Elementary Schools
Keyu Zhu, Nabeel Gillani, Pascal Van Hentenryck
In the face of increasingly severe privacy threats in the era of data and AI, the US Census Bureau has recently adopted differential privacy, the de facto standard of privacy prote…
Divergences in Following Patterns between Influential Twitter Users and Their Audiences across Dimensions of Identity
Suyash Fulay, Nabeel Gillani, Deb Roy
Identity spans multiple dimensions; however, the relative salience of a dimension of identity can vary markedly from person to person. Furthermore, there is often a difference betw…
All a-board: sharing educational data science research with school districts
Nabeel Gillani, Doug Beeferman, Cassandra Overney +2
Educational data scientists often conduct research with the hopes of translating findings into lasting change through policy, civil society, or other channels. However, the bridge…
Redrawing attendance boundaries to promote racial and ethnic diversity in elementary schools
Nabeel Gillani, Doug Beeferman, Christine Vega-Pourheydarian +3
Most US school districts draw "attendance boundaries" to define catchment areas that assign students to schools near their homes, often recapitulating neighborhood demographic segr…
Understanding and improving social factors in education: a computational social science approach
Nabeel Gillani, Rebecca Eynon
Over the past decade, an explosion in the availability of education-related datasets has enabled new computational research in education. Much of this work has investigated digital…
Unpacking the "Black Box" of AI in Education
Nabeel Gillani, Rebecca Eynon, Catherine Chiabaut +1
Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have sparked renewed interest in its potential to improve education. However, AI is a loose umbrella term that refers to a collectio…
Perspective-taking to Reduce Affective Polarization on Social Media
Martin Saveski, Nabeel Gillani, Ann Yuan +2
The intensification of affective polarization worldwide has raised new questions about how social media platforms might be further fracturing an already-divided public sphere. As o…
Games for Fairness and Interpretability
Eric Chu, Nabeel Gillani, Sneha Priscilla Makini
As Machine Learning (ML) systems becomes more ubiquitous, ensuring the fair and equitable application of their underlying algorithms is of paramount importance. We argue that one w…
Simple dynamic word embeddings for mapping perceptions in the public sphere
Nabeel Gillani, Roger Levy
Word embeddings trained on large-scale historical corpora can illuminate human biases and stereotypes that perpetuate social inequalities. These embeddings are often trained in sep…
Me, My Echo Chamber, and I: Introspection on Social Media Polarization
Nabeel Gillani, Ann Yuan, Martin Saveski +2
Homophily -- our tendency to surround ourselves with others who share our perspectives and opinions about the world -- is both a part of human nature and an organizing principle un…
Understanding Communication Patterns in MOOCs: Combining Data Mining and qualitative methods
Rebecca Eynon, Isis Hjorth, Taha Yasseri +1
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offer unprecedented opportunities to learn at scale. Within a few years, the phenomenon of crowd-based learning has gained enormous popularity w…
Structural limitations of learning in a crowd: communication vulnerability and information diffusion in MOOCs
Nabeel Gillani, Taha Yasseri, Rebecca Eynon +1
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) bring together a global crowd of thousands of learners for several weeks or months. In theory, the openness and scale of MOOCs can promote itera…
Communication Communities in MOOCs
Nabeel Gillani, Rebecca Eynon, Michael Osborne +2
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) bring together thousands of people from different geographies and demographic backgrounds -- but to date, little is known about how they learn o…