Information Marketplace: Ensuring The Public Has The Data

What does it mean to be misinformed—and who consumes misinformation? It can be hard to track down measured answers to those questions. Often framed as a problem that ‘others’ encounter, the public discourse surrounding misinformation can also be highly reductive.   Undergraduate researchers and 2022 Buchanan Fellows, William… Read More

Listen on Spotify Listen on Amazon Music Listen on Google Podcasts  Unity Talks, produced by the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy, is a podcast featuring a series of conversations and… Read More

Subscribe to our newsletter, On Unity.Friends and fellow citizens,This week, we invited the American Enterprise Institute’s Chris Stirewalt and Vanderbilt’s Josh Clinton to share their firsthand experience overseeing the intricate data-driven processes that allow major networks to accurately call election winners and losers. Months of diligent preparation,… Read More

As midterm elections near, the ever-changing outlook on the U.S. economy remains at the forefront of voters’ minds. Cutting through the clutter of competing political punditry to uncover an evidence-based understanding of the country’s current economic state remains a challenge.  To that end, the Vanderbilt Project… Read More

By Caroline Friedman Levy, Ph.D., and Matthew Facciani, Ph.D.  Even in these polarized times, policymakers across the ideological spectrum can find common ground on artificial intelligence. Members of Congress from both parties are rooting for AI’s potential to help us cure pediatric cancers and solve some of our… Read More

  By Sarah Igo, Andrew Jackson Professor of History at Vanderbilt University    Since the first Social Security numbers were issued in 1936, Americans’ relationship to their unique nine digits has charted shifting attitudes toward the federal government. The federal government has long relied on aggregate as well as individual data… Read More

As the nation grapples with the continuing tragedy of mass shootings, Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy hosted a live virtual panel discussion, “Facts and Evidence: Navigating the Gun Debate in America,” on Tuesday, June 7, 2022, at noon to discuss the issue of gun… Read More