Episode 20: 2025 ICPSR Data Communications Scholarship Winners

Episode 20: 2025 ICPSR Data Communications Scholarship Winners

We caught up with the winners of the 2025 Data Communication Scholarship to talk about how they came up with their winning videos, and what they learned about the ICPSR data they explored. Show notes: https://myumi.ch/pV3GJ

Episode 19: Data Brunch Live! At the 2026 International Love Data Week

This is a recording of a session from the ICPSR Data Fair at International Love Data Week, February 9, 2026. Data Brunch Podcast hosts Dory and Jennifer took their show to a live webinar to kick off the 2026 ICPSR Data Fair @ Love Data Week, discussing highlights, stories about data, the people who use, seek, or create data, and why you should care. New to the Data Brunch podcast? Catch up on past episodes at https://myumi.ch/ICPSRDataBrunch This webinar is part of the 2026 ICPSR Data Fair @ Love Data Week. For more information, please visit https://myumi.ch/ICPSRLoveDataWeek and https://myumi.ch/ICPSRLoveDataWeekIntl.

Episode 18: Trust and Outcomes

The year is 2022. Simran Sethi Khanna just won ICPSR's Undergraduate Paper Competition for her work, "Determining LGB Perceptions of and Trust in the Medical Establishment," and joined Data Brunch to talk about her findings, her inspiration, and her love of Thai food. The year is 2025. Simran is now an MD candidate at the Duke University School of Medicine. She still loves Thai food.

Episode 17: Democracy's Data

Dr. Dan Bouk is on to talk about his new book, "Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them." He tells us about why the U.S. House of Representatives is stuck at 435, the ways that the census was weaponized during World War II, and how queerness found a way to be visible to the statistical system.

Episode 16: Data Brunch Live! The Research Data Ecosystem

How do people access data? Not just researchers... what about journalists? Think tank employees? Retail managers? Grandparents? We want everyone to have access to data, but what does that really mean? If everyone has access to data, what does that mean in terms of getting people to actually see it? The Research Data Ecosystem, a new initiative from ICPSR with funding from the National Science Foundation, will make research data accessible to broaden participation in the frontiers of scientific research. This episode