Data+ is a ten-week summer research experience for undergraduates and master’s students interested in exploring new data-driven approaches to interdisciplinary challenges. Students work in small teams and learn how to marshal, analyze and visualize data, while gaining broad exposure to the field of data science. Through collaboration, teams use data analysis to solve a wide variety of real-world challenges using health data, text, voting records, wireless mapping data, economic and financial analytics and more.

2017 Projects

• Data Viz for Long-term Ecological Research and Curricula
• Nutrition Dependent Growth in the Laboratory Rat
• Visualizing Suffering: Tracking Photojournalism and the Syrian Refugee Crisis
• Quantifying Phenotypic Evolution during Tumor Growth
• Mental Health Interventions by Durham Police
• Visualizing Real Time Data from Mobile Health Technologies
• Alumni Gifts and Data Analysis
• Electricity Access in Developing Countries from Aerial Imagery
• Building a Duke SLED (Duke Surgery Longitudinal Educational Database)
• Ghost Bikes
• Open Data for Tobacco Retailer Mapping
• Quantified Feminism and the Bechdel Test
• Classification of Vascular Anomalies using Continuous Doppler Ultrasound and Machine Learning
• Comparing the Exploration of Academic Majors at Duke
• Smart-phone-assisted digital rejuvenation of medieval paintings
• MyHealthTeams Data Exploration and Visualization
• Understanding Duke Research Based on Large-Scale Faculty Publication Records
• Online Financial Behavior and the Internet of Things
• Marriage and Statistics through Space and Time
• Validating a Topic Model that Predicts Pancreatic Cancer from Latent Structures in the Electronic Medical Record
• Open-source Spatial Visualization for Public Health Intelligence 
• Quantifying Rare Diseases in Duke Health System
• Controlled Substance Monitoring Visualization
• Mapping the Ocean Floor
• Analytics for Faculty Success