This project seeks to use digitized deed records as the material to construct a social graph of Locust Grove’s real estate market in order to understand the social and power structures underlying the neighborhood’s development. This quick start guide can help researchers use the platform, Graph Commons, to analyze the connections between property buyers and sellers. This was created as a part of the course, ARH8604 - Field Methods I, taught in Spring 2021 by...

Through the pilot project – Towards a National Community Learning Network – we demonstrate that the Cooperative Extension System (CES) can be used to infuse data insights into local communities and accelerate the advancement of economic mobility across three states (Virginia, Iowa, and Oregon) through use of the Community Learning through Data Driven Discovery process. The project encompassed three bodies of work, including: (1) developing a rural community-based research culture to promote economic mobility; (2)...

On February 3, 2021 the School of Data Science's Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) officially passed the Open Access Guidelines and Recommendations. The University of Virginia School of Data Science is guided by goals to further discovery through open, collaborative, and responsible data science research. These guidelines and recommendations are adhered to by all faculty members in their research.