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Friday, March 7th, 2025

Birds, Butterflies, and Beyond: The Statistical Challenges and Opportunities of Community Scientists as Data Collectors

Researcher: Sara Stoudt (Assistant Professor of Mathematics) Many ecological questions require hard-won data, but thanks to participation from community members on a variety of nature apps like iNaturalist, eBird, and eButterfly, there is more and more data available for a variety of species, across longer time scales and broader spatial extents. However, this data is collected in a less systematic way, so there are limitations for its use for statistical modeling. Sara Stoudt, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, works with ecologists to find creative ways to make this data usable for scientific research. Along the way, they learn about both the […]

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Posted by on March 7, 2025

Friday, February 14th, 2025

2025 Bucknell Data Challenge Winners

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the 2025 Bucknell Data Challenge!In this week-long data challenge, teams of students were presented with surprise datasets and asked to draw some insight from the data.

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Posted by on February 14, 2025

Friday, February 14th, 2025

Code a Valentine Event

By Keeler Thomas ’25 Anticipating Valentine’s Day, and in honor of International Love Data Week, the Dominguez Center for Data Science hosted its first Code a Valentine guided event. Did you know you can create unique geometries using simple computer programming? In one short evening, participants used the data visualization and statistical package R, with provided templates from the Center, to learn the basics of drawing hearts, trees, and other complex shapes. They were then able to individualize and customize their drawings and messages to decorate and print personal digital Valentine’s Day cards. The event, which was open to the […]

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Posted by on February 14, 2025

Thursday, February 6th, 2025

Data Analysis of the NFL Top 100 Rankings

Researchers: pictured above, left to rightMax Wilson ‘27 (Business Analytics), Joe Wilck (Associate Professor of Practice in Analytics & Operations Management), Sam Gutekunst (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor of Data Science) Max Wilson ‘27 spent the summer of 2024 studying the NFL Top 100, a ranking of NFL players according to the NFL players themselves.  Max wanted to study what the players most value when ranking each other, as well as how this ranking system compares to other systems that rank NFL players (e.g. those based on statistics).  Max also studied the “legacy effect” and the extent […]

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Posted by on February 6, 2025

Monday, January 27th, 2025

Data Science Student Fellows: Featured Video

Check out the Fall 2024 Data Science Fellows’ presentations as part of this featured video about the program: Thank you to all of the stakeholders and mentors who worked with the inaugural cohort of Data Science Fellows this fall! See a full list of the projects and credits for all of the students, stakeholders, and mentors on the Fall 2024 Data Science Projects page. Special thanks for Trevor Polly and Nisan Trotter for creating this video.

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Posted by on January 27, 2025

Tuesday, January 21st, 2025

Spring 2025 Data Science at Bucknell

Data science is thriving across Bucknell’s campus.  This is the first in a series of notes highlighting data science activities happening across campus. This note focuses on some of the spring 2025 initiatives from the Dominguez Center for Data Science (DCDS):   Stay informed about DCDS activities  by joining our list-serv.  To share your own data-related updates in a future note, please reach out to data-science@bucknell.edu.

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Posted by on January 21, 2025

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