Students explore immigration through a big data lens

(University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center) At the Supercomputing17 conference, diverse undergraduate and graduate students will learn how to use advanced computing to explore the nation's immigration policies as part of the Advanced Computing for Social Change Institute. The program, which debuted in 2016, teaches students how to use data analysis and visualization to develop data-driven policy solutions to pressing social issues. Organized by TACC, XSEDE and SC17, the project applies the world's most cutting-edge technologies to address social change.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news