About the talk:

The social sciences rely heavily on legacy data systems conceived to meet challenges of the 20^th century (and earlier!). It’s high time to build a new data infrastructure that meets new challenges and exploits new types of technology, labor, and data now available to us.  The purpose of this talk is to sketch out this radical vision, how it might be realized, and the risks that it would entail.

About the speaker:

David B. Grusky is Edward Ames Edmonds Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University. His research describes different types of social inequality, how to monitor them, and how to reduce them.