5 papers
AudienceView: AI-Assisted Interpretation of Audience Feedback in Journalism
William Brannon, Doug Beeferman, Hang Jiang +2
Understanding and making use of audience feedback is important but difficult for journalists, who now face an impractically large volume of audience comments online. We introduce A…
Bridging Dictionary: AI-Generated Dictionary of Partisan Language Use
Hang Jiang, Doug Beeferman, William Brannon +2
Words often carry different meanings for people from diverse backgrounds. Today's era of social polarization demands that we choose words carefully to prevent miscommunication, esp…
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-…
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…