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Big Data's Streetlight Effect
Another version of my piece on big data - Big data’s ‘streetlight effect’: where and how we look affects what we see - was published by the Conversation, which is an independent source of…
Senior Thesis Pallavi Oruganti
Pallavi Oruganti, an undergraduate researcher in our DECML lab, successfully defended her senior thesis in April. The thesis, Hunters' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice towards Wildlife Disease…
Honors thesis Nathaniel Henry
Nathaniel Henry, undergraduate researcher in our MORSL lab, successfully defended his honors thesis, which uses an agent-based model to examine the economic impact on fisheries in the Logone…
CNH grant for research on pastoral territoriality
Our grant proposal Pastoral Territoriality as a Dynamic Coupled System - Joy McCorriston (PI), Ian Hamilton and Mark Moritz - will be recommended for funding by the National Science Foundation’s…
REG grant for Kelly Yotebieng
Kelly Yotebieng has been informed that her proposal, “The City from the perspective of urban refugees in Yaoundé, Cameroon,” has been recommended for funding by the National Science Foundation…
Cautionary note on data analytics
I wrote a cautionary note about the use of big data for the blog of TDA@OSU drawing on the work of Mike Agar, Joe Henrich and others.
Paper published in JASSS
Our paper Simulating the Transmission of Foot-And-Mouth Disease Among Mobile Herds in the Far North Region, Cameroon has been published in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.The…
Pallavi Orunganti is a Denman Winner
Pallavi Orunganti has won third place at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum for her poster presentation Hunters' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices towards Wildlife Diseases in Ohio…
AJAS paper published
Our paper Studying the Logone floodplain, Cameroon, as a coupled human and natural system was published in the African Journal of Aquatic Science. Here is the abstract: African floodplains are an…