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Crowd-Sourced Data for Comparative Politics: Lessons from the Indian Water Sector

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Friday, April 01, 2016
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Alison Post
Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the University Program in Environmental Policy Seminar Serie

In much of the developing world, states fail to collect accurate information on social and political phenomena such as protest activity, the extent and reach of public services, and corruption. Crowd-sourced data-data sourced electronically from disparate individuals or groups-now offers researchers new information on such processes. Alison Post, assistant professor at the University of California-Berkeley, will speak at Duke University on "Crowd-Sourced Data for Comparative Politics: Lessons from the Indian Water Sector" 10-11:30 a.m. April 1.

Post will explain how descriptive inference using crowd-sourced data can be improved by explicitly examining how data is contributed, and conducting ground truthing exercises.

This talk is part of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the University Program in Environmental Policy seminar series featuring leading experts discussing a variety of pressing environmentally focused topics.

Contact: David Bjorkback