Digital Credit Observatory launched, with support from Gates Foundation
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Date07 Mar 2017
Dr. Blumenstock and Dr. Jonathan Robinson (UCSC) are leading a new initiative on digital credit in developing countries. The Digital Credit Observatory is supported by a generous grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and is being managed by the... Read More →
New research published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface
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Date01 Feb 2017
Dr. Blumenstock and co-authors have published a new article, “Mapping poverty using mobile phone and satellite data.” Abstract Poverty is one of the most important determinants of adverse health outcomes globally, a major cause of societal instability and one of... Read More →
Office of Naval Research supports lab research
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Date01 Jan 2017
The Office of Naval Research has provided support to Dr. Blumenstock, and collaborators Jacob Shapiro (Princeton) and Sham Kakade (UW) for their research on “Spectral Models of Security.”
World Bank supports research in Afghanistan
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Date05 Nov 2016
World Bank supports research in Afghanistan April 19, 2016 Dr. Blumenstock was awarded a research grant from the World Bank to study “Conflict and Private Sector Development in Afghanistan”
Gates Foundation funds research in the Philippines
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Date05 Nov 2016
Gates Foundation funds research in the Philippines August 1, 2016 Dr. Blumenstock and PhD student Niall Keleher have received a grant from the Gates Foundation to study the impact of first-time mobile phone use on households in rural Philippines. The... Read More →
National Science Foundation grant for “Algorithms in the Field”
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Date05 Nov 2016
National Science Foundation grant for “Algorithms in the Field” September 20, 2016 Dr. Blumenstock and Sham Kakade (UW) have received support from the National Science Foundation for their project, “Spectral Methods in the Field: New Tools for Discovering Latent... Read More →
Blumenstock to give keynote at SocInfo
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Date16 Oct 2016
Blumenstock to give keynote at SocInfo November 14, 2016 Dr. Blumenstock will give a keynote address at the 8th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2016) in Seattle.
New research published in journal Science
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Date19 Aug 2016
Dr. Blumenstock’s article, “Fighting Poverty with Data,” was published in this week’s issue of Science magazine. Abstract Policy-makers in the world’s poorest countries are often forced to make decisions based on limited data. Consider Angola, which recently conducted its first... Read More →
New paper published at KDD
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Date01 Aug 2016
Dr. Blumenstock and PhD student Raza Khan’s paper, “Predictors without Borders: Behavioral Modeling of Product Adoption in Three Developing Countries,” was published in the 22nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, one of the main academic outlets... Read More →