The gender pay gap is again receiving much-needed publicity in recent years as a topic of debate between US presidential hopefuls for 2016 and information uncovered from Sony’s email… Read More »Highlighting the Importance of Intersectionality in the Gender Pay Gap
A comparison of the two maps above yields a surprising conclusion: African-Americans are much less likely to be arrested in areas with higher African-American populations!… Read More »Exploring Racial Disparities in New York City’s Stop-and-Frisk Policies
Students in Monty Roper’s Anthropology and Global Development Studies classes gain practical experience in fieldwork, data analysis, and ways to deal effectively with clients when… Read More »Data Across the Curriculum: Helping the Local and the International with Consulting Research
DASIL’s “We the People” data explorer allows users to search petitions based on subject—civil rights, economics, and defense, to name a few. My previous post about “We the People” briefly examined government responses to petitions but did not consider their subject. This analysis expands on that post by grouping together petitions with similar subjects into three broad categories: Government, Science, and Sociology. The government category includes subjects like “Budget and Taxes” and “Defense,” science includes “Technology and Telecommunication,” “Environment,” and sociology includes “Disabilities,” “Education” and “Poverty.” I only included petitions with over 5,000 signatures in my analysis to limit the number of results.
A frequency analysis for each category reveals an interesting trend when compared with the analysis of the petitions with 100,000+ signatures. Read More »Analyzing the American Political Sphere with “We the People”: Part 2
The start of the school year is a time many students start putting thought into what disciplines to study for the remainder of their collegiate… Read More »Investigating the Spatial & Temporal Trends of Declaring a Major