Shannon Houser (Stats/BioChem), Junbo Guan (MIDS), and Gaurav Sirdeshmukh (Stats) spent ten weeks exploring data concerning child and family health in Yolo County, CA. Using R Shiny, the team produced an interactive data dashboard that enables Yolo County residents to find healthcare and childcare providers, food resources, and transportation information....
Imagine a world where we understand how to detect mental health and developmental problems in early childhood so that we can intervene early in life and prevent future suffering and impairment. This is a challenge that can only be addressed by an interdisciplinary team of computational people with child psychiatrists...
Tatanya Bidopia (Psychology, Global Health), Matthew Rose (Computer Science), Joyce Yoo (Public Policy/Psychology) spent ten weeks doing a data-driven investigation of the relationship between mental health training of law enforcement officers and key outcomes such as incarceration, recidivism, and referrals for treatment. They worked closely with the Crisis Intervention Team, and they used jail data provided...
Stats/Sociology major Mitchelle Mojekwu joined Neuroscience majors Kassie Hamilton and Zineb Jaidi in a ten-week exploration of data relevant to an upcoming public school zone redistricting in Durham County. Using information acquired from the General Social Survey and the US Census, the team applied modern mathematical and statistical methods for...
Patience Jones (NCCU, Psychology and Elementary Education) joined Duke students Allyson Ashekun (PubPol), Drew Greene (PubPol), and Rhea Tejwani (CS/Econ) in a ten-week curation of data meant to assist decision-makers within Durham Public Schools. Using data from the Durham Compass and the NC School Report Card among many other sources,...
Jennie Wang (Economics/Computer Science) and Blen Biru (Biology/French) spent ten weeks building visualizations of various aspects of the lives of orphaned and separated children at six separate sites in Africa and Asia. The team created R Shiny interactive visualizations of data provided by the Positive Outcomes for Orphans study (POFO). Executive Summary (PDF) Project...
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