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Teaching Data Science as a Tool for Empowerment by Elijah Mercer, D-Lab Data Science Fellow

Data science can be a tool for empowerment. In this week's D-Lab Blog Post, D-Lab Data Science Fellow Elijah Mercer shares how he uses data to help communities drive change—from teaching to working with Teach for America and Roadmap to Peace.

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Normative Evaluation of Large Language Models with Everyday Moral Dilemmas The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) has spurred extensive research into their encoded moral norms and decision-making processes. Much of this research relies on prompting LLMs with surv...

🚨 New D-Lab research on LLMs!

D-Lab Senior Data Scientists Pratik Sachdeva & Tom van Nuenen tested 7 LLMs on 10,000 moral dilemmas from Reddit’s "Am I the Asshole" community. They analyzed how models assign blame in moral dilemmas compared to humans. 🔗👇 #AI #LLMs

arxiv.org/abs/2501.18081

Why Data Disaggregation Matters: Exploring the Diversity of Asian American Economic Outcomes Using… by Taesoo Song, D-Lab Data Science Fellow

Check out this week's D-Lab Blog Post! D-Lab Data Science Fellow @taesoosong.bsky.social explores why data disaggregation matters, revealing economic disparities among Asian American sub-groups in Census data.

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