For the Duke Reporters’ Lab, a challenge has been to develop an algorithm that can match a claim with an existing fact-check. When Bill Adair put some Duke undergraduates to work through Data+ and Bass Connections, they made quick progress.
A Story+ project and resulting exhibition, Allen Building Takeover at 50, is cited in a new six-part series on ABC called 1969. Story+ is a Bass Connections summer program.
Anna Gassman-Pines is the WLF Bass Connections Associate Professor of Public Policy & Psychology and Neuroscience at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke.
Duke mathematician Jonathan Mattingly conducted research for the North Carolina plaintiffs. His Bass Connections team, Gerrymandering and the Extent of Democracy in America, continues to refine this work.
Professor Aria Chernik writes about a day-long event coordinated by her Bass Connections project team, OSPRI Lab, in partnership with Rogers-Herr Middle School in Durham.
A Bass Connections team called Data and Technology for Fact-checking helped develop the FactStream app and launch it in time for the State of the Union address, in collaboration with PolitiFact, FactCheck.org and The Washington Post.
Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong discusses his new book, which is related to his work with the Bass Connections team How to Cure Political Polarization by Asking Questions.
Professor Bill Adair and Professor Jun Yang lead a Bass Connections team, Data and Technology for Fact Checking, that is developing an app for live fact-checking.
