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Voice to Vision: Enhancing Civic Decision-Making through Co-Designed Data Infrastructure Open
Trust and transparency in civic decision-making processes, like neighborhood planning, are eroding as community members frequently report sending feedback "into a void" without understanding how, or whether, their input influences outcomes…
Designing for Constructive Civic Communication: A Framework for Human-AI Collaboration in Community Engagement Processes Open
Community engagement processes form a critical foundation of democratic governance, yet frequently struggle with resource constraints, sensemaking challenges, and barriers to inclusive participation. These processes rely on constructive co…
BoundarEase: Fostering Constructive Community Engagement to Inform More Equitable Student Assignment Policies Open
School districts across the United States (US) play a pivotal role in shaping access to quality education through their student assignment policies -- most prominently, school attendance boundaries. Community engagement processes for chang…
SenseMate: An Accessible and Beginner-Friendly Human-AI Platform for Qualitative Data Analysis Open
Community organizations face challenges in harnessing the power of qualitative data analysis, or sensemaking, to understand the diverse perspectives and needs brought up by their constituents. One of the most time-consuming and tedious par…
All a-board: sharing educational data science research with school districts Open
Educational data scientists often conduct research with the hopes of translating findings into lasting change through policy, civil society, or other channels. However, the bridge from research to practice can be fraught with sociopolitica…
Estimating Censored Spatial-Temporal Demand with Applications to Shared Micromobility Open
In shared micromobility networks, such as bike-share and scooter-share networks, using trip data to accurately estimate demand in docked and dockless systems is critical to analyzing how the system is operating, such as identifying the num…
Redrawing attendance boundaries to promote racial and ethnic diversity in elementary schools Open
Most US school districts draw "attendance boundaries" to define catchment areas that assign students to schools near their homes, often recapitulating neighborhood demographic segregation in schools. Focusing on elementary schools, we ask:…
Genome Sequence of Bacillus megaterium O1, a Saponin-Degrading Bacterium Open
Bacillus megaterium strain O1 was isolated from a soapnut ( Sapindus saponaria ) surface and degrades Quillaja saponin as a sole carbon source. We report the draft genome sequence of B. megaterium O1, which has an estimated size of 5.1 Mb.…