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Computer Science Department Colloquium Production, Consumption, Absorption, Impact of News
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Speaker: David Rothschild, Microsoft Research

Bio

David Rothschild is a Senior Principal Research and Economist at Microsoft Research. His work pushes the boundaries on varying data and methods: polling, prediction markets, social media and online data, large behavioral and administrative data, and large-language models. His work focuses on solving practical and interesting questions including: mapping and updating public opinion, the market for news, effect of advertising, behavioral economics and finance, an economist's take on public policy, and how AI is affecting all of this.

Location : CoRE 301

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Event Type: Computer Science Department Colloquium

Abstract: In this talk, David will discuss an ongoing project using LLM and Human-in-the-Loop coding to label news in near-real time (https://mediabiasdetector.seas.upenn.edu/) And discuss key findings about what mainstream media chose to cover in 2024 and how that may have impacted the general voting population.

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Contact  Professor David Pennock

https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/2014444359?pwd=WW9ybFNCNVFrUWlycHowSHdNZjhzUT09