Professor Gary King, Weatherhead University Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, will speak on “Big Data is Not About The Data: Reverse Engineering Government Censorship and Fabrication of Social Media Posts in China.” Along with the LBJ School, the talk will be co-hosted by the Department of Sociology and the Population Research Center. The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
A prolific researcher, King’s more than 150 journal articles, 20 open source software packages and 8 books span most aspects of political methodology, many fields of political science and several other scholarly disciplines. His work is widely read across scholarly fields and beyond academia. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, the National Institute of Aging, the Global Forum for Health Research, and centers, corporations, foundations and other federal agencies. For more on King, visit https://gking.harvard.edu/biocv.