Thematic Session Projects
🌟 Thematic Sessions — ASA 2025
The ASA 2025 Thematic program centers on structural shifts in labor: from gig work and AI management to burnout, remote precarity, and the future of care.
These projects show how social data science surfaces patterns, inequalities, and control regimes at a scale and structure not visible to traditional methods.
✅ Completed Projects
🔭 Research Concepts in Progress
The following ideas are in development. They preview how upcoming SDS tools will engage AI, automation, and worker sentiment in new ways:
📈 Job Automation Risk Trends
A time series visualizing changes in the percentage of U.S. jobs at high risk of automation from 2000–2025.
🗺️ Automation Impact Heat Map
A geographic visualization showing industries and cities most disrupted by automation technologies.
📊 Skill Shift Bar Graph
Comparing demand for emerging skills (like “AI literacy”) with declines in traditional skill requirements.
☁️ AI Buzzword Word Cloud
Word cloud of common terms in job listings containing “AI,” scraped from 2015–2025 postings.
📉 Wage Displacement Chart
A line chart tracking average wages in high-automation-risk industries versus protected sectors.
➡️ Stay tuned as these concepts evolve into full data science projects.