PRIISM, the Center for Practice and Research at the Intersection of Information, Society, and Methodology, is an interdisciplinary center that builds capacity for researchers within academia and beyond to collect data, build inferential models and predictive algorithms, and communicate findings in impactful and socially responsible ways.
PRIISM Seminar Series
Watch the PRIISM seminar about how lab experiments, crowdsourcing, and machine learning were combined to evaluate the impact of different types of vaccine-related content on US Facebook users. with Dr. Jenny Allen, assistant professor at NYU Stern.
Highlights
Text messages for missed court dates lower warrants and incarceration
Dr. Alex Chohlas-Wood and colleagues demonstrate that text message reminders can substantially reduce warrants and incarceration for missed court appearances.
The lasting economic impact of COVID on maternal mental health
Drs. Jennifer Hill, Marc Scott and Ravi Shroff and colleagues found that post-pandemic losses in income, jobs, and health insurance were strongly linked with higher levels of anxiety and depression among low-income mothers.
View our gallery of past highlights.
The PRIISM Team
Meet the faculty, researchers, students, and affiliates working at PRIISM
Meet the TeamMS, Applied Statistics for Social Science Research
PRIISM is highly integrated with the academic program of Applied Statistics for Social Science Research. Learn advanced quantitative research techniques and apply them to critical policy issues across social, behavioral, and health sciences.
Degree Details How to ApplyPhD, Statistics and Computational Social Science
PRIISM is highly integrated with the doctoral program of Statistics and Computational Social Science. Learn about statistical, computational, and social science theory and how the combination of these disciplines can be used to understand and address problems of social importance in public health, education, criminal justice, and other domains.
Degree Details How to Apply
