Jason Portenoy, a PhD student in the DataLab, gave a presentation on our project for measuring and visualizing the impact of research using regression discontinuity design and data from the Pew Charitable Trust.

1. Assessing the Impact of Research Funding
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Jason Portenoy & Jevin West

2. • How to assess the impact of nonprofits that provide research
funding to the biomedical community?
• Connecting institutional data with citation graphs
• Developing metrics and visualizations to show different kinds of
scholarly influence
• Comparing award recipients with alternates who were not
selected — Regression Discontinuity Design
Jason Portenoy & Jevin West
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