Data Brunch from ICPSR

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

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...

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.

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.

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 Foun...

In this special bonus episode of Data Brunch, guest-hosted by ICPSR summer interns Evie Katmanivong and Varshini Kashyap, we hear from three Singapore Management University students (Ng Hok Shan Matthew, Verity Lua, and Nadyanna Majeed) whose undergraduate entry won the ICPSR 2021 Research Paper Competition. Interviewed by ICPSR’s Kathryn Lavender, Data Project Manager at the National Archive of C...

It's the final episode of season 2! Join us for a talk with 3 of the researchers behind the COVID Border Accountability Project (COBAP), which tracked international border closures and policies related to COVID-19. How countries reacted, how they didn't, and how a small dog helped fund this massive dataset. See more at covidborderaccountability.org

It's Love Data Week 2022! We talk to one of our favorite people and the mother of our beloved mascot DataJeff, Stephanie Labou, about what Love Data Week is all about, the importance of making analysis accessible, and the joys of Eggs Benedict. For links, show notes and more, visit https://myumi.ch/ICPSRDataBrunch.

Earlier this week we hosted a joint webinar/podcast recording with the Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) and its director, Ron Dekker. Ron talks with Maggie Levenstein, ICPSR's director, about what it's like leading two of the world's largest data consortia through the years, and what might change for social science data in 2022 and beyond.

We dug into the not insignificant vaults at ICPSR to show off part of a series of interviews conducted by StoryCorps, a non-profit dedicated to gathering and archiving interviews of everyday people. Abay Israel and Kilsang Kim talk about their earliest memories of ICPSR and what keeps bringing people back even decades later.

Our interview this episode is with Fabian Pfeffer, associate professor at the University of Michigan, co-investigator of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and founding director of the Center for Inequality Dynamics. Fabian talks about the important distinction between income inequality and wealth inequality, the overall state of wealth in the United States today, and the swings between cornflake...

Last week was the 2021 ICPSR Biennial Meeting, and we hosted our first ever live episode! ICPSR's own Libby Hemphill joins us to talk about extremism and social media, how data can help, and what the future might look like. She answers questions from the Data Brunch crew and from our live audience.

Welcome to season two! In this episode, we talk to Vanessa Otero, founder and CEO of Ad Fontes Media and the creator of the Media Bias Chart. Vanessa tells us how the chart came to be, how it's evolved, and how the team of analysts behind the chart today measure accuracy, bias, and reliability across the dozens of news media outlets they measure. More on the Media Bias Chart on Ad Fontes Media's w...

In our second bonus episode, we are featuring an episode from another podcast at ICPSR, hosted by the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA). Dr. Margaret Gatz joins NACDA's Kathryn Lavender to discuss Dr. Gatz's work on the Study of Dementia in Swedish Twins and the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council Twin Registry (NAS-NRC). You can listen to all of NACDA's epi...

In this episode, we're featuring an interview with Dr. Joanne Goodell about her newest book, "Preparing STEM Teachers: The UTeach Replication Model.” This interview is part of one of our fellow ICPSR podcasts from the archive Partnership for Expanding Education Research in STEM (PEERS). All of the PEERS episodes are available on YouTube and from the ICPSR website! https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/p...

It's the final episode of season 1! Debby Carr joins us to talk about her research on stress, and how we all have learned to handle stress better due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to all of our guests this season, and thank you all for listening!

College and Beyond II measures the impact and importance of a liberal arts education: how it's defined, how it's used, and how, like everything else, it has been changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Three members of the team, Jennifer Brady, Susan Jekielek, and Kevin Stange, join us to talk about the project, and more.

Ryan McWay joins us to talk about how cruise ships can affect women in developing countries, including raising employment rates and education. Anna also highlights some of the data ICPSR holds about policing, use of force, and body cameras.

Tamara Qawasmeh joins us to talk about a new paper that examines the link between stressful pregnancies and brain development in utero, especially related to sleeping habits in children. Links to the data and resources mentioned in this episode are available in the show notes at https://myumi.ch/ICPSRDataBrunch.

Skylar Hawthorne and David Thomas join us to discuss three specific surveys of the transgender population in the United States, how best to measure "unseen" populations, and the ideal thickness of French toast. Show notes are available at https://myumi.ch/ICPSRDataBrunch.

Trent Alexander, associate director of ICPSR, talks about a project linking every United States Census from 1850 all the way through present day and beyond to learn about how Americans moved, or how they stayed put.

Ambyr Amen-Ra joins Data Brunch to talk about data that covers decades worth of international travel and performances by legendary dancer, choreographer, and activist Katherine Dunham. Ambyr shares stories of the data's journey to ICPSR, as well as her own personal connection to Dunham and the communities she built. Links from this episode: Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for D...

In this episode, Dory and Anna talk about some new data and publications; we interview ICPSR's Shane Redman about what French and German data, a beach mural, and falafel have in common.; and laughter erupts when Dory introduces herself as Anna Links from this episode; Estimating the Financial Costs of Victimization, United States, 2017-2018 (ICPSR 37260: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studi...