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Making Sense Of Online Public Health Debates With Visual Analytics Systems, Anton Ninkov
Making Sense Of Online Public Health Debates With Visual Analytics Systems, Anton Ninkov
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Online debates occur frequently and on a wide variety of topics. Particularly, online debates about various public health topics (e.g., vaccines, statins, cannabis, dieting plans) are prevalent in today’s society. These debates are important because of the real-world implications they can have on public health. Therefore, it is important for public health stakeholders (i.e., those with a vested interest in public health) and the general public to have the ability to make sense of these debates quickly and effectively. This dissertation investigates ways of enabling sense-making of these debates with the use of visual analytics systems (VASes). VASes are computational …
A Data Exploration Of Jeopardy! From 1984 To The Present, Brian S. Hamilton
A Data Exploration Of Jeopardy! From 1984 To The Present, Brian S. Hamilton
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The gameshow Jeopardy! has been around in its current iteration—hosted by Alex Trebek—since 1984. During this time, it has accumulated data on clues, contestants, and possible strategies on how to win. Using a crowd-sourced archive called J! Archive, this project seeks to find trends in the topics that the game covers and take a deeper look into the performance of its contestants. It employs topic modeling, a text-analysis method, to organize the hundreds of thousands of archived clues and statistical analysis to rate the performance of contestants by gender. Using web-based visualization tools, the data is shown in an …
Finding Trends In Big City Health Issues With Data Visualization, Shridhar Kulkarni
Finding Trends In Big City Health Issues With Data Visualization, Shridhar Kulkarni
Dissertations and Theses
In recent years, data visualization has become one of the most effective tools to understand and identify unseen features of the large datasets available. An open source data set available for health issues for big cities across the United States was obtained. There are numerous indicators presented in the dataset including Demographics, Chronic Health Diseases, Social and Economic Factors, Food Safety, Mortality Rates, Cancer and Life Expectancy Rates. The dataset encompassed myriad of demographics as well as specific data for a number of US cities. The data was explored in different methods in Data points in terms of the demographic …