Data Analysis and Social Inquiry Lab

Land, Census, and Digital Humanities: The Iowa Township Project

After almost a decade of transcribing and analyzing censuses, we are excited to publicly reveal the Iowa Township Project. Applying powerful software to overlooked local history, we explore the facets of census data before arriving at a conclusion about the lives of women in Grinnell from 1870-1930.

Anti-Immigrant Sentiment and BREXIT

JINLIN HE'18, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND STATISTICS, SARA MARKU'18, COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS, AND AN HOANG'18 BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
May 22, 2018July 25, 2018

In this blog post, we are going to discuss about the process of engineering metrics to capture the two major concepts in our research question… Read More »

New DASIL Space in the Humanities and Social Studies Center (HSSC)

XAVIER ESCANDELL; DIRECTOR OF DASIL (DATA ANALYSIS AND SOCIAL INQUIRY LAB)
March 2, 2018July 25, 2018

Growth in Data Analysis Space Leads to Growth of CapabilitiesData — from a single digit to terabytes of information — increasingly shapes decisions on public… Read More »

Sentiment Analysis of a Podcast

MAGGIE REMUS'18, ECONOMICS AND PAMELA FELLERS, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS
August 30, 2017July 25, 2018

There has been an increase in the exploration of text as a rich data source. Quantifying textual data can reveal trends, patterns, and characteristics that… Read More »

Software Review: Tableau as a Teaching Tool

KRIT PETRACHAIANAN '17, DASIL STUDENT MENTOR
January 30, 2017July 25, 2018

Tableau is unique and a valuable teaching tool because it provides an easy interface for the creation of charts, graphs and even maps. Students can… Read More »