UWM researcher looks at how social media analysis can enhance polling
A close look at social media could not only provide a window into what voters consider the most important issues, it could also give insight that might improve political polling.
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UWM students connect to presidential campaign through Data Science Institute research
UWM students are using data science to help shed light on what might be driving voters in the 2020 presidential election campaign.
Improving the public’s understanding of COVID-19 data in charts and graphs
A UWM researcher is part of a team that is investigating how people interpret information about COVID-19 in graphs, maps and charts presented by the media.
Election among topics for first research projects for UWM, Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute
Voter behavior in the 2020 election is the subject of one of the first research projects for the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute, which is a partnership that includes UWM.
Local high schooler wins $25,000 award for research project done at UWM
Amogh Bhatnagar, son of Amit Bhatnagar, UWM associate professor of business, won the prize for a health care cost comparison model he created that uses data science.
Disruptive Technologies Lab aims to help fill tech job demand
A UWM lab where students learn cutting-edge technology like artificial intelligence, blockchain and cryptocurrency also has the capacity to fill an important need in southeastern Wisconsin.
Papatla named university co-director of Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute
Purush Papatla, a marketing professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has been named as one of two university directors in the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute, a collaborative educational and research initiative among Northwestern Mutual and its foundation, UWM and Marquette University.
Microsoft donates over $1.5 million for Connected Systems Institute
Microsoft President Brad Smith pledged a donation worth more than $1.5 million to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Connected Systems Institute on Monday at UWM’s new Lubar Entrepreneurship Center.
New program focuses on managing change from the industrial internet of things
MILWAUKEE _ Big data streaming on the industrial internet of things (IIoT) has the potential to revolutionize manufacturing by connecting all functions of an enterprise and by spawning technologies that accomplish that. A new four-day program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Lubar School of Business introduces senior managers and those who work with them to […]
UWM researcher helps reveal new genes associated with breast cancer risk
An international team of researchers, including Paul Auer at UW-Milwaukee, has recently identified 48 genes associated with a woman’s predisposition to breast cancer – 34 that were implicated in previous research and 14 new genes.