Finding a Sense of Place with GIS
Although IDRE Technologist Yoh Kawano has spent more than two decades working with geographic information systems (GIS) – technology designed to help visualize, analyze, and interpret data – he said…
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Visualizing the Cost of Incarceration in L.A.
A Collaboration Between IDRE, UCLA Faculty, and Community-Based Organizations Policing and mass incarceration are two issues that have sent currents of activism, debate, and calls for change from the American…
Stats Consulting Group Lends Expertise to Campus Researchers
Statistical analysis conducted by the Institute for Digital Research and Education (IDRE)’s Statistical Consulting Group aided UCLA School of Dentistry faculty member Dr. R. Christian Solem’s latest study that was…
IDRE’s Stats Group Aids Orthodontics Study Published in Journal
The study that dons the cover of this month’s American Journal of Orthodontics includes statistical analysis provided by IDRE’s Statistical Consulting Group. The article, “Congenital and acquired mandibular asymmetry: Mapping…
IDRE Research Fuels Tech for New U.S. Smart Manufacturing Institute
Last month, President Obama announced that the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC), the nationwide non-profit organization co-founded at UCLA, was chosen to lead the new Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute in…
Scholar Explores Ways the Humanities Incorporates the Use of Data
Halfway through earning her doctorate degree in film studies and American studies at Yale University, Miriam Posner’s academic interest in data flourished during a hiatus from school. Posner, coordinator and…
Broadcast News Analysis Reveals Deeper Understanding of Media
With a collection of recordings from 46 different broadcast networks of 2,500 different television shows that amount to approximately 283,000 hours of footage and 750,000 metadata files, you would be…
Bridging the Gap Between Art and Code
Visual artist Casey Reas’ initial interest in computer programming grew out of an art project. Reas, a UCLA Design Media Arts professor, said that as an artist he has always…
Exploring the intersection of the written word and technology
Johanna Drucker is busy. Outside of her work as a professor in the UCLA Department of Information Studies and serving on the University’s Institute for Digital Research and Education’s (IDRE) Humanities,…
UCLA Professor Unites Film Analysis and Technology for a New Interpretation
During the 1960s, UCLA cinema and media studies professor Stephen Mamber pioneered an education for himself that did not previously exist. While completing an undergraduate degree in math at UC…