Showing 10 results of 21 tagged “Information Initiative at Duke”.

Ana Barros

Predicting Weather with Big Data

Ana Barros talks about working with big data in environmental fields before the term even existed and how her work has evolved over the years

Comments Sought in Regular Review of iiD Director Robert Calderbank

Kyle Bradbury works with a team of students on the original solar-panel-spotting computer algorithms

Gauging Renewable Energy Generation Using Satellite Imagery

If you’re poor and lack a high school or college diploma, you’re more likely to live near a store that sells tobacco. Photo from Pixabay.

Pinpointing Where Durham’s Nicotine Addicts Get Their Fix

Corey Vernot: My favorite Duke memory is watching Duke beat UNC this year with my friends in Cameron.

Corey Vernot: Making Statistics Work Across Many Fields

Corey Vernot Hometown: Hamilton Ohio...

A nanowire mesh electrode developed at Duke is 10 times more conductive than the materials now used in hydrogen fuel cells.

Energy Initiative Awards Seven New Seed Grants

Total external awards for previous projects have tripled the seed funding investment

Research projects that explore new possibilities for energy storage, reliability, and...

More than 350 data geeks swarmed Bostock Library this weekend for a 48-hour number-crunching competition called DataFest. Photo by Loreanne Oh, Duke University.

At DataFest 2017, Data Geeks Go Head to Head

A Mind—And an Ear—For Big Data

A Mind—And an Ear—For Big Data

A Pratt students discovered a passion for the topology of music—and for teaching undergraduates data science

Students studied this summer why search results do not relate well to race, gender, or other minority traits

Data+ Project Sent Students Searching for Solutions to Cultural Blind Spots in Search Results

For Peter Hoff, statistics is an avenue through which he can learn about different types of science. Photo by John Joyner/Duke Photography

Peter Hoff: Reckoning With Big Data to Tease Out Network Patterns

Duke statistician Peter Hoff finds great...