Social Analytics Data Lab (SADL)

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SADL works on a range of computational- and data-intensive (CDI) problems related to social science, political science, and transparency. We are housed at the University of Delaware, and enjoy strong ties with colleagues and collaborators in the Department of Political Science & International Relations, the Data Science Institute (DSI), the Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence (AICoE) the Center for Political Communication (CPC), the Delaware Advanced Research and Innovation Network (DARWIN), and the Data Intensive & Computational Science (DICoS) Core.

Students interested in joining the lab should contact Benjamin Bagozzi ([email protected]) for more information.

Principal Investigator

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Benjamin E. Bagozzi
Department of Political Science & International Relations
Affiliate, DSI
Affiliate, CPC
Affiliate, MSDS
Affiliate, AICoE

University of Delaware Graduate Students

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Daria Blinova
PhD Candidate
Political Science







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Kushagradheer Srivastava
MS Candidate
Data Science

SADL Alumni

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Rakesh Emuru
MS
Data Science
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Thomas Benson
PhD
Political Science

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  Evan Christie
  MS
  Data Science
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Sarah A.V. Ellington
PhD
Political Science
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 Allan Hungria
 PhD
 Mathematical Sciences
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 James Korman
 PhD
 Political Science

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 Mina Rulis
 Dual BA (High Honors)
 Inter. Relations and Computer Science

Current Funding

  • National Science Foundation OAC-2417814 (Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem) "SCIPE: Building a Computational and Data-Intensive Research Workforce & Network in the Mid-Atlantic Region.'' 2024-2029. $4,678,000.

Past Funding

  • Knight Foundation. "Analyzing Local Broadcast News Delocalization at Scale.'' 2022-2023. $84,000 to UD.
  • Knight Foundation. "Measuring the Extent to which the Consolidation of US Local Television Stations Affects Local News Content at Scale." 2021-2022. $70,000.
  • University of Delaware, Department of Political Science, Summer Graduate Research Assistance Award. "Government Responsiveness to Access to Information Requests in the Shadow of a Drug War: The Case of Mexico.'' 2021. $2,000.
  • Department of Defense. "Data Science for Discovery's Sake: Synthetic Media Detection and Social Network Analysis.'' 2021. Subaward via Howard University. $25,000.
  • National Science Foundation DMS-1737865 (Division of Mathematical Sciences, Algorithms for Threat Detection) “ATD: Collaborative Research: Multivariate Quantiles for Rapid Spatio-temporal Threat Detection.'' 2017-2021. $85,000.
  • University of Delaware General University Research (GUR) Grant "When is Access-to-Information an Effective Accountability Mechanism? Using Big Data Tools to Study Responsiveness in Mexico and Beyond'' 2019-2020.  $15,000.
  • University of Delaware, Department of Political Science, Summer Graduate Research Assistance Award. “Exposure to Violence and Citizen Accountability-Seeking: Evidence from 1 Million Government Information Requests in Mexico.” 2020. $3,000.
  • National Science Foundation SBE-SMA-1539302 (Resource Implementations for Data Intensive Research in the Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences) “Modernizing Political Event Data for Big Data Social Science Research.'' 2015-2018. $49,000.