Micah Altman

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Micah Altman is affiliated with the following schools: Harvard University, Brown University, University of Alabama, California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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According to Wikipedia, Micah Altman is an American social scientist who conducts research in social science informatics. Since 2012, he has worked as the head research scientist in the MIT Libraries, first as director of the Program on Information Science and subsequently as director of research for the libraries' Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship. Altman previously worked at Harvard University. He is known for his work on redistricting, scholarly communication, privacy and open science. Altman is a co-founder of Public Mapping Project, which develops DistrictBuilder, an open-source software.

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Micah Altman's Published Works

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Published Works

Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (2004) (307)
Beyond authorship: attribution, contribution, collaboration, and credit (2015) (274)
A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data (2007) (173)
Encyclopedia of Social Measurement (2004) (172)
Publishing: Credit where credit is due (2014) (169)
Differential Privacy: A Primer for a Non-Technical Audience (2018) (145)
Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist (2003) (126)
Is automation the answer: the computational complexity of automated redistricting (1997) (88)
Convergence Problems in Logistic Regression (2004) (77)
BARD: Better Automated Redistricting (2011) (72)
Modeling the effect of mandatory district compactness on partisan gerrymanders (1998) (58)
Practical approaches to big data privacy over time (2018) (52)
The Promise and Perils of Computers in Redistricting (2010) (49)
Districting principles and democratic representation (1998) (45)
A Digital Library for the Dissemination and Replication of Quantitative Social Science Research (2001) (41)
Digital Preservation through Archival Collaboration: The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (2009) (38)
An introduction to the joint principles for data citation (2015) (37)
Choosing Reliable Statistical Software (2001) (34)
From Crayons to Computers (2005) (34)
An Active Learning Framework for Classifying Political Text (2007) (33)
Handbook of Research on Public Information Technology (2008) (27)
Towards a Modern Approach to Privacy-Aware Government Data Releases (2016) (26)
A Harm-Reduction Framework for Algorithmic Fairness (2018) (25)
Traditional Districting Principles: Judicial Myths vs. Reality (1998) (25)
Elements of a new ethical framework for big data research (2016) (25)
Replication with Attention to Numerical Accuracy (2003) (24)
The computational complexity of automated redistricting : Is automation the answer ? (1997) (23)
Structures of the gauche conformers of some substituted dimethyl ethers. Effect of adjacent atom lone pairs on methyl group asymmetry (1983) (22)
A Fingerprint Method for Scientific Data Verification (2007) (22)
Open source software for Libraries: from {Greenstone} to the {Virtual Data Center} and beyond (2002) (21)
From Preserving the Past to Preserving the Future: The Data-PASS Project and the Challenges of Preserving Digital Social Science Data (2009) (19)
Current Research in Voting, Elections, and Technology (2005) (19)
Some Details of Nonlinear Estimation (2004) (16)
Registering Researchers in Authority Files (2014) (15)
What a Hybrid Legal-Technical Analysis Teaches Us About Privacy Regulation: The Case of Singling Out (2020) (14)
The Happiness-Energy Paradox: Energy Use is Unrelated to Subjective Well-Being (2019) (14)
Evaluating and Promoting Open Data Practices in Open Access Journals (2017) (13)
Curation as “Interoperability With the Future”: Preserving Scholarly Research Software in Academic Libraries (2020) (13)
Revealing Preferences: Why Gerrymanders are Hard to Prove, and What to Do about It (2015) (12)
A Half-Century of Virginia Redistricting Battles: Shifting from Rural Malapportionment to Voting Rights to Public Participation (2013) (11)
Numerical Issues Involved in Inverting Hessian Matrices (2003) (11)
A Review of JMP 4.03 With Special Attention to its Numerical Accuracy (2002) (10)
Open Journal Systems and Dataverse Integration– Helping Journals to Upgrade Data Publication for Reusable Research (2015) (10)
An Introduction to the Virtual Data Center Project and Software (2001) (10)
A Bayesian approach to detecting electoral manipulation (2002) (9)
Paradoxes of Political Reform: Congressional Redistricting In Florida (2013) (9)
A Grand Challenges-Based Research Agenda for Scholarly Communication and Information Science (2018) (9)
Trends in Digital Preservation Capacity and Practice: Results from the 2nd Bi-annual National Digital Stewardship Alliance Storage Survey (2017) (8)
Transformative Effects of NDIIPP, the Case of the Henry A. Murray Archive (2009) (8)
Integrating Approaches to Privacy Across the Research Lifecycle: When Is Information Purely Public? (2015) (7)
Redistricting Principles for the Twenty-First Century (2012) (7)
Redistricting and Polarization (2015) (6)
Pushbutton Gerrymanders? How Computing Has Changed Redistricting a Brief History of Computers in Redistricting (2005) (6)
The Effects of Automated Redistricting and Partisan Strategic Interaction on Representation: The Case of Mexico (2014) (6)
Overview of the virtual data center project and software (2001) (6)
An Overview of Digital Libraries: Issues and Trends (2006) (6)
Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu: American Representations of India, 1721-1893 (2017) (6)
Redistricting by Formula: An Ohio Reform Experiment (2018) (6)
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Statistical Software (2011) (6)
Information Wants Someone Else to Pay for It: Laws of Information Economics and Scholarly Publishing (2015) (5)
Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts . By Canon David T.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 324p. $50.00 cloth, $18.00 paper. (2000) (5)
accuracy: Tools for Accurate and Reliable Statistical Computing (2007) (5)
Using the SafeArchive System: TRAC-Based Auditing of LOCKSS (2011) (5)
Components of partisan bias originating from single-member districts in multi-party systems: An application to Mexico☆ (2017) (5)
The Public Mapping Project (2018) (4)
A Comparison of the Numerical Properties of EI Methods (2004) (4)
Openness and Diversity in Journal Editorial Boards (2021) (4)
MEASURING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHITE VOTING AND POLLING ON INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE (2006) (4)
American Apostles: When Evangelicals Entered the World of Islam (2017) (4)
Funding, Funding (2009) (3)
NDSA Storage Report: Reflections on National Digital Stewardship Alliance Member Approaches to Preservation Storage Technologies (2013) (3)
An Introduction to the Special Volume on "Political Methodology" (2011) (3)
The Limitations of Quantitative Methods for Analyzing Gerrymanders: Indicia, Algorithms, Statistics and Revealed Preference (2007) (3)
The Scholarly Knowledge Ecosystem: Challenges and Opportunities for the Field of Information (2021) (3)
Data Protection's Composition Problem (2019) (3)
Integrating Approaches to Privacy Across the Research Lifecycle: Long-Term Longitudinal Studies (2014) (3)
“Religion, Religions, Religious” in America: Toward a Smithian Account of “Evangelicalism” (2019) (3)
The Construction of Hinduism in America (2016) (3)
The Virtual Data Center (2001) (3)
Technology for Public Participation in Redistricting (2011) (2)
2020 NDSA Agenda for Digital Stewardship (2020) (2)
How to Set a Random Clock: Remarks on Earnest (2006) (2006) (2)
Communicating Science and Engineering Data in the Information Age (2011) (2)
Public Participation GIS: The Case of Redistricting (2014) (2)
Podcasting religious studies (2015) (2)
Orientalism in Nineteenth-Century America (2018) (1)
Opinions ∙ Data Protection’s Composition Problem (2019) (1)
Open Research Questions on Information and Technology in Global and Domestic Politics—Beyond “E-” (2008) (1)
2 Better Automated Redistricting BARD : Better Automated Redistricting (2010) (1)
Improving Digital Experience Through Modeling the Human Experience (2018) (1)
Public Mapping Project Redistricting Data (2012) (1)
Where Did This Box of Books Come From (2016) (1)
Recommendations for Replication and Accurate Analysis (2004) (1)
Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics (2003) (1)
Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South (2012) (1)
Tools for Creating Universal Numeric Fingerprints for Data (2015) (1)
Methods for Open and Reproducible Materials Science (2019) (1)
Formalizing Privacy Laws for License Generation and Data Repository Decision Automation (2019) (1)
Supplement A: Use Cases. A Companion to the OCLC Research Report, Registering Researchers in Authority Files. (2014) (1)
Evangelicals: Who They Have Been, Are Now, and Could Be (2020) (1)
Threats to Confidentiality in Political Science Research (2010) (0)
An Overview of Data-PASS Shared Catalog (2007) (0)
Advances in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, (Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering 2007) (2008) (0)
[Book Review] {Point, Click and Vote: The Future of Internet Voting} (2004) (0)
National Digital Stewardship Alliance on the Move (2015) (0)
Numerical Issues in Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimation (2004) (0)
How collaborative preservation works (2010) (0)
Privacy Tools project response to Common Rule Notice of Proposed Rule Making (2016) (0)
URN: An R-Package for Resampling without Replacement, software version 1.0 (2006) (0)
Preprints & Pandemics: Interventions into the Dynamic Scholarly System of Scholarly Communication (2021) (0)
Public Mapping and Redistricting Reform (2018) (0)
Reproducibility and Privacy from an Informatics Perspective (NOT FRI. PM) (2015) (0)
Resources for the Testing and Enhancement of Statistical Software (1999) (0)
Dispelling The Magic: Blogging in the Religious Studies Classroom (2017) (0)
Workshop: Keeping Your Archive Safe (and on TRAC) with SafeArchive and LOCKSS (2012) (0)
American Examples, or, How I Stopped Being an Americanist and Learned to Study Religion in America All Over Again (2020) (0)
An Open-Source System for Automatic Policy-Based Collaborative Archival Replication (2011) (0)
Some More Delightful Iconoclasm (2018) (0)
Designing Community Tracking Indicators for Open and Inclusive Scholarship (2022) (0)
No Accountability without Transparency and Consistency: Redistricting-by-Formula in Mexico (2021) (0)
Book Review) Battles That Shaped the Computer Industry (2000) (0)
Introduction: Consequences of Numerical Inaccuracy (2004) (0)
Building Tools and Services to Support Research Software Preservation and Sharing (2016) (0)
The energy paradox: energy use and happiness (2019) (0)
Advancing the Evidence Base of Digital Preservation (2015) (0)
Versluis, Arthur.American Gurus: From Transcendentalism to New Age Religion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. viii+297 pp. $74.00 (cloth). (2016) (0)
Hinduism in America (2022) (0)
The Happiness-Energy Paradox: Energy Use is Unrelated to Subjective Well-Being (2019) (0)
Replication Data for: NDSA Storage Report 2017 (2017) (0)
Data Literacy for Entrepreneurs: Exploring the Integration of Pedagogy, Practice & Research at MIT (2020) (0)
BARD: Better automated redistricting, software version 1.0 (2008) (0)
Committee: ORCID Privacy Committee (2018) (0)
Numerical Behavior of King's EI Method (2004) (0)
Before Hinduism: Missionaries, Unitarians, and Hindoos in Nineteenth-Century America (2016) (0)
Sources of Inaccuracy in Statistical Computation (2004) (0)
The Use of Multidimensional Biopsychological Markers to Detect Learning in Educational Gaming Environments (2016) (0)
History and Presence, by Robert A. Orsi, Cambridge, MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2016, 367 pp., US$29.95 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 6740 4789 1 (2018) (0)
Vincent L Wimbush (ed), Scripturalizing the Sacred: The Written as Political, New York and London: Routledge, 2015; 248 pp. ISBN: 978-1-138-92000-2, $148.00 (hbk) (2017) (0)
International Encyclopedia of Political Science (2008) (0)
Juvenile Information Systems: A Comparative Analysis (2009) (0)
Standards Relating to Juvenile Records and Information Systems (1980) (0)
Supplement B: Research Networking Systems Characteristics Profiles. A Companion to the OCLC Research Report, Registering Researchers in Authority Files. (2014) (0)
How Does Redistricting Matter? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Setting in Mexico (2022) (0)
Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America by Brett Malcolm Grainger (review) (2020) (0)
The DataWeb/VDC integration (2005) (0)
No Accountability Without Transparency and Consistency: Evaluating Mexico's Redistricting-by-Formula (2023) (0)
Using New Forms of Information for Official Economic Statistics -- Examining the Commodity Flow Survey: Executive Summary from the 1rst Workshop in the Census-MIT Big Data Workshop Series (2015) (0)
Data , transparency and redistricting in mexico (2016) (0)
(Book Review) Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts (2000) (0)
Replication Data for: Measuring malapportionment, boundary-delimitation, and turnout effects in multi-party systems (2015) (0)
Persistent Identifiers for Data (2003) (0)
What are Judicially Manageable Standards of Redistricting? Evidence from History (1996) (0)
Introduction-Automated Redistricting for Political Participation and Analysis (2007) (0)
Datos abiertos, transparencia y redistritación en México / Open Data, Transparency and Redistricting in Mexico (2016) (0)
Planning for Public Mapping (2018) (0)
Location Confidentiality and Official Surveys (2016) (0)
Data for NDSA Storage Report 2011 (2012) (0)
Does Participation Improve Redistricting (2012) (0)
How Computing Has Changed Redistricting (2005) (0)
AIS: Ad Indicia Spectate, software version 1.0 (2007) (0)
Evaluating Statistical Software (2004) (0)
A History of Public Mapping (2018) (0)
A Principled Approach to Defining Anonymization As Applied to EU Data Protection Law (2022) (0)
Approaches to Data Dissemination and Preservation (2007) (0)
A Prototype Platform for Policy-Based Archive Replication (2013) (0)

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