Frida MudsamPhD Student
University of Colorado
Frida Mudsam is a 2nd-year PhD student in Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder working in the Information Visions Lab under Evan Peck. She holds a BA in Statistics and Data Science with a minor in Political Science and an MS in Applied Mathematics.
Prior to beginning her doctoral work, she worked on research in the STUDIO political science lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder and worked full time with research groups at the University of Gothenburg studying the interaction between economic and political behavior and data. Her research interests include how political attitudes shape the interpretation and understanding of data and data visualizations, and how exposure to data visualizations can in turn influence political attitudes.
Projects
In a tough job market, how do computing students find careers that align with their values — and what can we learn from recent graduates who’ve navigated that tension themselves?
How do context, culture, and lived experience shape the way people read charts? We apply an ecological framework to visualization literacy to move beyond individual decoding skills.