G000079 "Carnegie Mellon University: Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS)"

URL: http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/index.php

Sector: Education/academia

Primary role: Research (primary/secondary)

Secondary role: Public Policy

Primary subject: Democracy

Secondary subject: Civil Liberties (human rights)

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Region: North America

Country: USA

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Summary: CASOS develops and applies computational tools for utilizing data to analyze social phenomena, to explain and predict social behavior using these tools, and to measure and evaluate the impact of policies and procedures affecting social behavior. CASOS has a project on the diffusion of false and misleading information and draws comparisons between community responses to key issues.