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.

2018 Projects

• Maximizing Data Communication for Faster Energy Access
• Data and the Global Corporate Bond Market
• Construction Machinery and the Business Cycle
• Co-Curricular Technology Pathways E-advisor
• Duke Wireless Data
• Data-driven Improvement of Datacenter Performance
• Smartphones and the Sixth Vital Sign
• Data and Technology for Fact-Checking
• Gerrymandering and the Extent of Democracy in America
• Energy Infrastructure Map of the World
• Social Determinants of Health
• Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake
• Improving the Machine Learning Pipeline at Duke
• Rare Metabolic Diseases
• Complex Decisions, Real Numbers: Medical Decision-Making
• Women's Spaces
• Visualizing the Lives of Orphaned and Separated Children
• How Do We Build and Grow a PTA?
• Pirating Texts
• Big Data for Reproductive Health
• Deep Learning for Single Cell Analysis
• Poverty in Writing & Images
• Analytical Exploration for Duke Development
• Mental Health Interventions by the Durham Police (Year 2)