Brooke Erikson

Brooke Erikson

Undergraduate Students

Economics, Computer Science

2018

Data+

About My Data+ Experience

“I would not have been able to confidently explain what data science even was before Data+. After the program, I realize that data science is present across many companies and industries and extremely important to a variety of analysis.”

Related Projects

Maximizing Data Communication for Faster Energy Access

Maximizing Data Communication for Faster Energy Access

Data+, Energy Data Analytics

2018

Brooke Erikson (Economics/Computer Science), Alejandro Ortega (Math), and Jade Wu (Computer Science) spent ten weeks developing open-source tools for automatic document categorization, PDF table extraction, and data identification. Their motivating application was provided by Power for All’s Platform for Energy Access Knowledge, and they frequently collaborated with professionals from that organization. Click here to read the...