This two-week teaching module in an introductory-level undergraduate course invites students to explore the power of Twitter in shaping public discourse. The project supplements the close-reading methods that are central to the humanities with large-scale social media analysis. This exercise challenges students to consider how applying visualization techniques to a...
Jayesh Gupta (ECE/CS), Trevon Helm (ECE), and Yvonne Kuo (CS/PoliSci) spent ten weeks developing tools to extract features from network data in collaboration with information security professionals with Duke’s OIT. The team performed exploratory data analysis to extract features and used machine-learning techniques to detect zero-day attacks. This project was...
David Clancy, a Stats/Math/EnvSci major, and Tianyi Mu, an ECE/CompSci major, spent ten weeks studying the effects of weather, surroundings, and climate on the operational behavior of water reservoirs across the United States. They used a large dataset compiled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and they worked closely with Lauren...
Led by Dr. Eva Wheeler, this project considers how racial language in African American literature and film is rendered for international audiences and traces the spread of these translations. To address the study’s primary questions, the team analyzed a preliminary dataset and explored the relationship between translation strategy and different...
The definition of community is often fuzzy at best. However, communities can have both political impacts (such as determining zones for resource allocation) and social ones (such as influencing how information and culture spread). Communities may be defined by existing political subdivisions (such as counties or municipalities), but more nuanced...
Nathan Liang (Psychology, Statistics), Sandra Luksic (Philosophy, Political Science),and Alexis Malone (Statistics) began their 10-week project as an open-ended exploration how women are depicted both physically and figuratively in women’s magazines, seeking to consider what role magazines play in the imagined and real lives of women. Click here to read the Executive Summary Project Lead: Charlotte...
Luke Raskopf, PoliSci major and Xinyi (Lucy) Lu, Stats/CompSci major, spent ten weeks investigating the effectiveness of policies to combat unemployment and wage stagnation faced by working and middle-class families in the State of North Carolina. They worked closely with Allan Freyer at the North Carolina Justice Center. Project Results The team used regression and...
Redistricting determines whose voices count, yet few young North Carolinians understand how district lines shape their power as voters. “YouthMaps” will bring Duke students together with the NC Counts Coalition to analyze and visualize how redistricting and gerrymandering impact youth representation, turnout, and policy voice in North Carolina. Project Lead:...
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