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 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 field of data science.
The program runs from late May through late July each year, with the application deadline in February. Participants receive a stipend. Students come from a variety of backgrounds, majors and levels of experience with coding. Through collaboration, they use data analysis to solve problems across disciplines.
Data+ is offered through the Information Initiative at Duke and is part of the Bass Connections Information, Society & Culture theme.
Each student receives a $5,000 stipend for this full-time research experience (no classes or other employment during Data+). It is open to all Duke students at all levels and from all majors.
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 and Images
- Analytical Exploration for Duke Development
- Mental Health Interventions by the Durham Police