Published on Nov 2, 2012 by HarvardEducation
Speakers: Nancy Lublin, CEO, and Jeff Bladt, data scientist, DoSomething.org
Nancy Lublin, CEO of DoSomething.org and Jeff Bladt, data scientist at DoSomething.org, will present initial findings on perceptions and trends of bullying in US secondary school by current students. All data was mined from a Facebook application, The Bully Project, which was launched in April 2012 by DoSomething.org with support from the Einhorn Foundation and the film Bully. The application was originally intended to offer students a forum where they could grade the prevalence of bullying at their school by answering eight close ended questions about the frequency, variety and location of bulling at their schools, as well as giving them one opened question on how they would like to see the issue addressed. The Bully Project application was open to any Facebook user and was expected to reach 15,000 people in the two months it was scheduled to be active.
Nancy Lublin, CEO of DoSomething.org and Jeff Bladt, data scientist at DoSomething.org, will present initial findings on perceptions and trends of bullying in US secondary school by current students. All data was mined from a Facebook application, The Bully Project, which was launched in April 2012 by DoSomething.org with support from the Einhorn Foundation and the film Bully. The application was originally intended to offer students a forum where they could grade the prevalence of bullying at their school by answering eight close ended questions about the frequency, variety and location of bulling at their schools, as well as giving them one opened question on how they would like to see the issue addressed. The Bully Project application was open to any Facebook user and was expected to reach 15,000 people in the two months it was scheduled to be active.
