John Benhart (CompSci, Math) and Esko Brummel (Masters in Bioethics and Science Policy) spent ten weeks analyzing current and potential scholarly collaborations within the community of Duke faculty. They worked closely with the leadership of the Scholars@Duke database.
Project Results: The team built an interactive similarity network of Duke scholars, with weighted edges derived from textual analysis of publication titles.They also created visualizations of co-authors and co-investigators, which give the user the ability to "zoom in" and understand the collaborative ecosystem around specific Duke scholars.
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Project Leads: Lawrence Carin, James Moody, Julia Trimmer
Project Manager: Sayan Patra
Social and environmental contexts are increasingly recognized as factors that impact health outcomes of patients. This team will have the opportunity to collaborate directly with clinicians and medical data in a real-world setting. They will examine the association between social determinants with risk prediction for hospital admissions, and to assess whether social determinants bias that risk in a systematic way. Applied methods will include machine learning, risk prediction, and assessment of bias. This Data+ project is sponsored by the Forge, Duke's center for actionable data science.
Project Leads: Shelly Rusincovitch, Ricardo Henao, Azalea Kim
Project Manager: Austin Talbot
Aaron Chai (Computer Sciece, Math) and Victoria Worsham (Economics, Math) spent ten weeks building tools to understand characteristics of successful oil and gas licenses in the North Sea. The team used data-scraping, merging, and OCR method to create a dataset containing license information and work obligations, and they also produced ArcGIS visualizations of license and well locations. They had the chance to consult frequently with analytics professionals at ExxonMobil.
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Project Lead: Kyle Bradbury
Project Manager: Artem Streltsov
Yueru Li (Math) and Jiacheng Fan (Economics, Finance) spent ten weeks investigating abnormal behavior by companies bidding for oil and gas rights in the Gulf of Mexico. Working with data provided by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and ExxonMobil, the team used outlier detection methods to automate the flagging of abnormal behavior, and then used statistical methods to examine various factors that might predict such behavior. They had the chance to consult frequently with analytics professionals at ExxonMobil.
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Project Lead: Kyle Bradbury
Project Manager: Hyeongyul Roh
