Princeton Senior Fatehkia Uses Big Data to Examine Global Digital Gender Gap

While most young people use social media to be social, Princeton senior Masoomali Fatehkia is using it to advance social good.

Fatehkia, who is majoring in operations research and financial engineering, logged innumerable hours on Facebook last summer, but not in the usual way. While pursuing an internship in Doha at the Qatar Computer Research Institute (QCRI) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, he examined the potential use of Facebook’s advertising audience estimates as a data source to shed new light on the digital gender gap worldwide.

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