Data+ is a ten-week summer research experience for undergraduates and master’s students interested in exploring new data-driven approaches to interdisciplinary challenges. It is suitable for students at all levels and from all majors.
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 Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke and is part of the Bass Connections Information, Society & Culture theme.
Data+ 2019 runs from May 28 through August 3, 2019. The application deadline was February 25, 2019. Participants receive a $5,000 stipend for this full-time research experience, out of which they must arrange their own housing and travel. Participants may not accept employment or take classes during the program.
2019 Projects
- American Predatory Lending and the Global Financial Crisis
- Basketball Analytics Pipeline: From Raw Video to Dynamic Visualization
- Big Data for Reproductive Health
- Breaking the Bundle: Analyzing Duke’s Journal Subscriptions
- Data-driven Approaches to Illuminate the Responses of Lakes to Multiple Stressors
- Detecting and Predicting Impacts of Saltwater Intrusion on Coastal Ecosystems
- Duke Building Energy Use Report
- Durham Evictions
- Getting Granular on Social Determinants of Health
- Human Rights in the Postwar World
- Identifying Extreme Events in Wholesale Energy Markets
- Investigating Oil and Gas Production in the United Kingdom
- Invisible Adaptations: From Hamlet to the Avengers
- Network Visualization of IoT Devices
- Neuroscience in the Courtroom
- On the Shelf: Exploring Oil and Gas Production in the Gulf of Mexico
- Optimizing Risk Assessment for Duke University Student Athlete Injury Prevention
- Recidivism in Durham County Jails
- Remembering the Middle Passage
- Security Threat Intelligence Analytics
- Smart Meters and Real-time Electricity Consumption Monitoring Algorithms to Reduce Electricity Theft in Developing Countries
- Speech Emotion Analysis
- StreamPulse: From Streaming Data to Streaming Insights
- Urodynamic Data and Machine Learning
- U.S. Ambivalence about Making Profits
- Visualizing the Nation’s Water Quality Data
- A Wider Lens on Energy: Adapting Deep Learning Techniques to Inform Energy Access Decisions