A new model is developed for joint analysis of ordered, categorical, real and count data. In the motivating application, the ordered and categorical data are answers to questionnaires, the (word) count data correspond to the text questions from the questionnaires, and the real data correspond to fMRI responses for each...
Paclitaxel (Taxol) is a small molecule drug belonging to the taxane family. It is one of the most commonly used chemotherapeutics, used for treatment of many cancers, as a monotherapy or in combination with other drugs to treat breast, lung and ovarian cancer as well as Kaposi’s sarcoma. Taxol is on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) List...
A team of students led by researchers in the Duke River Center will develop a publicly available and accessible website to serve as a portal to explore diverse and extensive datasets detailing the quality of waterways and the effectiveness of management efforts to reduce risks associated with chemical contaminants, stormwater...
Fluid mechanics is the study of how fluids (e.g., air, water) move and the forces on them. Scientists and engineers have developed mathematical equations to model the motions of fluid and inertial particles. However, these equations are often computationally expensive, meaning they take a long time for the computer to...
Large publicly available environmental databases are a tremendous resource for both scientists and the general public interested in climate trends and properties. However, without the programming skills to parse and interpret these massive datasets, significant trends may remain hidden from both scientists and the public. In this data exploration, students,...
Most phenomena that data scientists seek to analyze are either spatially or temporally correlated. Examples of spatial and temporal correlation include political elections, contaminant transfer, disease spread, housing market, and the weather. A question of interest is how to incorporate the spatial correlation information into modeling such phenomena. In this...
With the significant international consequences of recent outbreaks, the ITP Lab conducted extensive stakeholder interviews and macro-level health policy analysis to expose gaps in pandemic preparedness and develop legal frameworks for future threats. Project Team Kushal Kadakia, Public Policy & Global Health Nora Ghanem, Public Policy & Global Health Niveen Hennein, Public Policy...
A team of students led by an interdisciplinary group of faculty at the intersection of policy, economics, and computer science will use statistical and machine learning methods to assess and map the discourse of speeches (1919-2022) by applied economists on food and agricultural policy. Understanding the historical underpinnings of these...
Varun Nair (Economics, Physics), Paul Rhee (Computer Science), Jichen Yang (Computer Science, ECE), and Fanjie Kong (Computer Vision) spent ten weeks helping to adapt deep learning techniques to inform energy access decisions. Click here to read the Executive Summary Faculty Lead: Kyle Bradbury Project Manager: Fanjie Kong
We all need water to survive but how many of us really know where our water comes from? Team 3 has created a functioning website from scratch to give consumers more easily accessible information about who provides their water and how supply looks in relation to the past 30 years....
In this two-day, virtual data expedition project, students were introduced to the APIM in the context of stress proliferation, linked lives, the spousal relationship, and mental and physical health outcomes. Stress proliferation is a concept within the stress process paradigm that explains how one person’s stressors can influence others (Thoits...
A team of students led by Dr. Liz DeMattia (Duke University Marine Lab) and Dr. Rachel Noble (UNC-IMS) will explore the Community Science Initiative’s AdoptADrain citizen science data collected during the 2021/2022 academic year (the first year of the program). Potential data analyses will include: collating, organizing, comparing and contrasting,...
Pryia Juarez (BME/ECE), Jonathan Pilland (ECE/BME), and Matthew Traum (CS/Econ) spent teen weeks analyzing sensor data synthesized by an agile waveform generator. The team used deep reinforcement learning techniques to understand the performance of different synthetic agents representing potential attackers to the sensor system.
Our team used artificial intelligence to help Duke University Management Company (DUMAC) operate more efficiently by building a cost optimization tool and analyzing and visualizing venture capital data. In our first project centered around cost optimization, we designed a Python script that suggests optimal cash transfers between prime brokers. In...
A team of students will collaborate with Duke librarians to use AI-powered Handwriting Text Recognition (HTR) tools to transform thousands of pages of handwritten text into machine readable data. Using a large dataset of digitized 19th and early 20th-century women’s travel diaries held in the Rubenstein Library students will test...
Building off the work of a 2016 Data+ team, Yu Chen (Economics), Peter Hase (Statistics), and Ziwei Zhao (Mathematics), spent ten weeks working closely with analytical leadership at Duke’s Office of University Development. The project goal was to identify distinguishing characteristics of major alumni donors and to model their lifetime giving behavior. Project Results: Working with a large data set...
Alexa Goble (Finance) joined Econ majors Chavez Cheong and Eli Levine in a ten-week exploration of mortgage enforcement actions related to the financial crisis from earlier in this century. Using NLP techniques on mortgage data from Ohio and Massachusetts, the team validated a new experimental approach to understanding the dynamics...
Jett Hollister (Mechanical Engineering) and Lexx Pino (Computer Science, Math) joined Economics majors Shengxi Hao and Cameron Polo in a ten week study of the late 2000s housing bubble. The team scraped, merged, and analyzed a variety of datasets to investigate different proposed causes of the bubble. They also created interactive visualizations of their data which will...
Carrying forward the work of a 2019-20 Bass Connections team, our Data+ team has worked to better understand the state of the home mortgage market leading up to the financial crisis. The team has built a more in-depth analysis of North Carolina to understand its different regions. We have also...
Large-scale databases from the social, behavioral, and economic sciences offer enormous potential benefits to society. However, as most stewards of social science data are acutely aware, wide-scale dissemination of such data can result in unintended disclosures of data subjects’ identities and sensitive attributes, thereby violating promises–and in some instances laws to protect...
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