“I feel as though Data+ has given me an insight into the workflow of projects larger than those I have participated in through school. Having this experience of taking a loose idea and turning it into a full fledged product has been very educational and valuable to me. It has also given me a better idea of what I would like to pursue as a future career path.”
Alec Ashforth (Economics/Math), Brooke Keene (Electrical & Computer Engineering), Vincent Liu (Electrical & Computer Engineering), and Dezmanique Martin (Computer Science) spent ten weeks helping Duke’s Office of Information Technology explore the development of an “e-advisor” app that recommends co-curricular opportunities to students based on a variety of factors. The team used collaborative and content-based filtering to create a recommender-system...