Apply for the Data+ Summer Research Program
Data+ is a full-time, ten-week summer research experience that welcomes Duke undergraduate and master’s students interested in exploring new data-driven approaches to interdisciplinary challenges. Earlier this month, the program was honored for educational innovation at the Reimagine Education Conference and Awards.
Data+ is part of Bass Connections in Information, Society & Culture. Students join small teams (a maximum of three undergraduates and one master’s student) and work alongside other teams in a communal environment. They learn how to marshal, analyze and visualize data while gaining broad exposure to the modern world of data science.
Participants receive a $5,000 stipend, out of which they must arrange their own housing and travel. Funding and infrastructure support are provided by a wide range of departments, schools and initiatives from across Duke, as well as by outside industry and community partners. Participants may not accept employment or take classes during the program.
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The program runs from May 22 until July 28, 2017. The application deadline is February 20, 2017, but applications are evaluated on a rolling basis. The first round of offers will go out January 25 and the second will go out February 25.
Projects for Summer 2017
Data Viz for Long-term Ecological Research and Curricula
Electricity Access in Developing Countries from Aerial Imagery
Open Data for Tobacco Retailer Mapping
Open Source Spatial Visualization for Public Health Intelligence
Marriage and Statistics through Space and Time
Visualizing Suffering: Tracking Photojournalism and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Nutrition Dependent Growth in the Laboratory Rat
Quantifying Rare Diseases in Duke Health System
Quantifying Phenotypic Evolution during Tumor Growth
Visualizing Real Time Data from Mobile Health Technologies
Building a Duke SLED (Duke Surgery Longitudinal Education Database)
Comparing the Exploration of Academic Majors at Duke
Quantified Feminism and the Bechdel Test
Controlled Substance Monitoring Visualization
Classification of Vascular Anomalies
Learn More
- Read Data+ Program Honored for Educational Innovation.
- Explore Bass Connections in Information, Society & Culture (2017-2018 year-long projects will be announced on January 11).
- Find out how to get involved in Bass Connections.