Engage with Big Data at Duke
Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke brings disciplines together to unlock the potential of big data.
Rhodes iiD Mission
Unprecedented access to data and to computing is transforming our world and iiD aims to equip Duke to play a leading role.
We work with Departments and Schools to transform data science education at Duke, to develop a large and vibrant data science community with Duke at the center, and to develop a broader base of high visibility interdisciplinary research.
From Our Data+ Students
Data+ by the Numbers
weeks during the summer
undergraduates per team
grad student mentors per team
projects sharing ideas and code
Featured Projects
News
Data+ 2024: Analyzing Basketball Plays Using Computer Vision and Enhancing Game Strategy and Player Performance
Basketball, with its fast-paced action and intricate plays, has always been a game of strategy. Coaches and...
A young Duke professor won $250,000 for her algorithms that could find symptoms of heart disease when they start
Amanda Randles is shaping the future of medicine with her award-winning research. Read the article at Business...
Bass Connections Teams Share Research Highlights at 2024 Showcase
Over 750 students, faculty, staff and community partners gathered for the event in Penn Pavilion, where...
iiD in Action
Data+ 2023: Assessing Germline Variations among Black Patients with Early-Onset Prostate Cancer
Data+ 2023: Mental Health and the Justice System in Durham County
Data+Final/Climate+ 2023: Measuring urban heat islands and their causes in Durham
Data+/Climate+ 2023: Responses of parking lot usage to the Covid 19 pandemic
Data+/Climate+ 2023: Identifying and determining hypoxia in rivers across North America
Data+ 2023: Visualizing Data to Increase Access to Diapers
Data+ /Climate+ 2023: Understanding the ocean biological carbon pump with big data
Data+/Applied Ethics+ 2023: Creating Emerging Technology Foresight Strategies for Synthetic Biology
Sexual Harassment Has No Place in Statistics & Data Science
We join our colleagues in the Department of Statistical Science in condemning all acts of sexual misconduct and harassment in statistics and data science, and in working to eliminate them from our professions.
Robert Calderbank, Director
Lisa Kiester, Deputy Director
James Moody, Deputy Director