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 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 (bagozzib@udel.edu) for more information.

Principal Investigator

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

University of Delaware Graduate Students

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Thomas Benson
PhD Candidate
Political Science & International Relations

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  Evan Christie
  Masters of Science Candidate
  Data Science
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Sarah A.V. Ellington
PhD Candidate
Political Science & International Relations
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  James Korman
  PhD Candidate
  Political Science & International Relations

University of Delaware Undergraduate Students

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 Mina Rulis
 Inter. Relations and Computer Science

SADL Alumni

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 Allan Hungria
 PhD
 Mathematical Sciences

Current Funding

  • 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.

Past Funding

  • 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.