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Pulse: An Agentic Workflow Optimization Tool For Cross-Functional Teams Task Assignment, Bottleneck Detection, And Efficiency Recommendations, Tiffanie Ng Oct 2025

Pulse: An Agentic Workflow Optimization Tool For Cross-Functional Teams Task Assignment, Bottleneck Detection, And Efficiency Recommendations, Tiffanie Ng

IPHS 391: Interdisciplinary AI Frontiers

Project management apps often center around tracking tasks but in reality, setbacks come from system-level dynamics (handoffs and review gates, constrained specialists with overloaded schedules, etc), which quietly compound until nothing ships on time. This work presents PULSE, an agentic workflow optimization system that turns event logs and operational data into a three-component manager-ready report including 1. skill- and capacity-aware task assignments, 2. bottleneck detection from event logs, and 3. human-in-the-loop AI-assist recommendations. I evaluate my MVP using a synthetic dataset built with Ollama, mimicking cross-functional collaboration in a mid-sized e-commerce company. The data illustrates realistic departments, projects, tasks, and …


Two Moles, Two Worlds: Network Analysis Of Infernal Affairs And The Departed, Melissa Vu Oct 2025

Two Moles, Two Worlds: Network Analysis Of Infernal Affairs And The Departed, Melissa Vu

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

This project aims to explore how adaptation reshapes the social architecture of a movie. To do this, I used social network analysis to compare the character dynamics between Infernal Affairs(Hong Kong, 2002) and its U.S. adaptation The Departed(2006) in two ways: co-presence networks (characters connected when they appear in the same scene, with edge weights capturing repeated co-appearance) and directed dialogue network (arrows representing who speaks to whom, with thicker arrows indicating more frequent dialogue). Comparing the network structures across the two films reveals meaningful differences in group structure, connecting roles, and the concentration of dialogue around key characters, which …


Lights, Camera, Action! Mapping Concentration, Wealth, And Stability In Nyc Film Production, Mariah Szabo Oct 2025

Lights, Camera, Action! Mapping Concentration, Wealth, And Stability In Nyc Film Production, Mariah Szabo

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

This project is a comprehensive analysis of over 93,000 New York City film permits from 2012-2025. A geographic analysis reveals that filming activity is concentrated in a small number of neighborhoods, although slight differences are visible based on the type of media being filmed. This geographic pattern has remained stable over the 13 years studied, despite major disruptions like COVID-19 and the streaming boom. Notably, a joint analysis with a New York City household income dataset shows that these neighborhoods stand as wealthier than the average New York City neighborhood. The result is an “NYC on Film” that represents only …


Mapping Interior Focalization: Social Network Analysis And Free Indirect Discourse In Mrs. Dalloway, Zhuojun Jiang Oct 2025

Mapping Interior Focalization: Social Network Analysis And Free Indirect Discourse In Mrs. Dalloway, Zhuojun Jiang

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

Mrs. Dalloway, a highly renowned stream-of-consciousness novel in modern literature, employs extensive use of free indirect speech and shifting focalization, leaving the relationships between its characters elusive and sophisticated. How does social network analysis behave when focalization shifts rapidly across characters in free indirect discourse? This study employs specific literary analysis with social network analysis as digital humanities methodology to investigate the contrast between the superficial social structures and the interior psychological relationship structures. I referenced Jessica Daugherty’s poster on social network analysis and Professor Elkin’s sentiment analysis on Mrs. Dalloway as my sources of inspiration, and I used ChatGPT, …


French Reactions To 9/11: An Analysis Of French Newspaper Articles Published September 12, 2001, Rose Plottel Oct 2025

French Reactions To 9/11: An Analysis Of French Newspaper Articles Published September 12, 2001, Rose Plottel

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

This research presents a hierarchical cluster analysis and aspect based sentiment analysis (ABSA) of French newspaper articles about the September 11 attacks published on September 12, 2001. The study focuses specifically on the key thematic clusters discussed across these articles and the variance in sentiment scores across them. Using Dendrogram Hierarchical Modeling and ABSA, the model identified six thematic clusters and measured thematic scores for each cluster as well as their key terms on a scale ranging [-1,1]. The analysis revealed simultaneous sympathy for the American people alongside scrutiny of potential American retaliation.


Sentiment Oscillations In Mafia Cinema: Using Sentiment Analysis To Quantify The Critical Disparity Within The Godfather Trilogy, Andrew Vera Oct 2025

Sentiment Oscillations In Mafia Cinema: Using Sentiment Analysis To Quantify The Critical Disparity Within The Godfather Trilogy, Andrew Vera

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

This project uses sentiment analysis technology to examine the screenplays of The Godfather trilogy. Sentiment analysis generates data based on dramatic dialogue, rating each line on a sentiment scale that indicates the level of emotional intensity or neutrality, as well as whether the sentiment is positive or negative. By using this technology, the study identifies the unique curves of each film, allowing for a comparison of narrative peaks and valleys that helps explain the disparity between the series' acclaim and its criticism. Additionally, by measuring the sentiment arc disparities, the study seeks to illustrate why the first two films in …


Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis With Llms: Are Large Language Models Able To Accurately Score Sentiment In Company Earnings Calls?, Peyton Hodges Oct 2025

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis With Llms: Are Large Language Models Able To Accurately Score Sentiment In Company Earnings Calls?, Peyton Hodges

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

When a company releases an earnings call, it can have a big impact on the respective stock market performance of that company. Investors of all types do their best to analyze the data and sentiment provided by the senior executive members to gauge potential future trends of the stock price. Earnings calls are especially important for companies like Nvidia that are making waves in the tech world as AI continues to grow. Previously, sentiment analyses were typically reserved for big companies who specialize in financial quantitative analysis. However, the introduction of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as Gemini, ChatGPT, and …


Examining The Ohio 5’S Identities: A Data Analysis Of College Mission Statements, Olivia Hiner Oct 2025

Examining The Ohio 5’S Identities: A Data Analysis Of College Mission Statements, Olivia Hiner

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

How do the Ohio 5 compare in their mission statements? Being in such close proximity to each other, they compete in enrollment, sports, academics, student life, and more. This study utilizes mission statements in order to observe semantic similarity. By running the code, a heatmap, semantic map, and 3D semantic space reveal that Kenyon’s mission statement is most similar to the others whilst Oberlin is most dissimilar.


Reading Between The Taglines: Regional Topic Frequencies In Reality Television Narratives, Ava Fattahi Oct 2025

Reading Between The Taglines: Regional Topic Frequencies In Reality Television Narratives, Ava Fattahi

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

This project uses topic and word frequency arcs to explore a seemingly frivolous yet ultimately revealing part of modern TV: The Real Housewives franchise (2006-). By looking at the taglines the women use to introduce themselves along with full transcripts of episodes, I want to examine how the mood and language of different cities change from region to region of the wildly popular series. I focus on a small sample size of three areas: the West Coast (Beverly Hills), the Northeast (New York City), and the South (Atlanta). Based on what I have noticed as a longtime viewer of the …


From Nature To Finance: The Language Of Environmental Governance Through Unep Reports, Elizabeth Aiken Oct 2025

From Nature To Finance: The Language Of Environmental Governance Through Unep Reports, Elizabeth Aiken

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

This project applies the computational text analysis methods from Franco Moretti and Dominique Pestre's "Bankspeak" to examine how the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) language has evolved in its annual reports from 1975 to 2024. Founded in 1972 as the UN’s main environmental authority, the UNEP plays a vital role in global discourse surrounding climate change and environmental challenges. Using Python-based computational methods to track word frequencies, semantic clusters, and grammatical patterns across five decades of annual reports, this analysis reveals three distinct linguistic periods. These periods include an early period (1975-1989), which emphasizes nature and scientific terms, a middle …


Emotional Stability And Deception In Multi-Agent Ai Negotiations Tracking Emotional Drift, Persuasion And Influence Using Valence-Arousal-Dominance, Godwin Idowu Oct 2025

Emotional Stability And Deception In Multi-Agent Ai Negotiations Tracking Emotional Drift, Persuasion And Influence Using Valence-Arousal-Dominance, Godwin Idowu

IPHS 200: Programming Humanity

Today, large language models are often applied as smart agents who are capable of communicating, negotiating and making decisions together in the same space. In this work, I designed a test scenario where three different AI agents, having different goals, a cooperative helper, a competitive maximizer, and a deceptive agent, are sharing resources in a number of rounds. I would like to observe how the different goals of the agents affect the emotions of the agents. Each time the agents meet, I interpret their communications to assign them numerical values that measure the intensity of their perceived positivity, excitement, or …


Kenyon Collegiate - September 26, 2025 Sep 2025

Kenyon Collegiate - September 26, 2025

Kenyon Collegiate

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Kenyon Collegian - September 25, 2025 Sep 2025

Kenyon Collegian - September 25, 2025

The Kenyon Collegian

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A Total Modernity And Alternative Avant-Garde Art In China, Ming-Lu Gao 高名潞 Sep 2025

A Total Modernity And Alternative Avant-Garde Art In China, Ming-Lu Gao 高名潞

Zhou Documents

In this paper, Gao discusses "twentieth century Chinese avant-garde in two major periods: the avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s; and the contemporary avant-garde of Post-Mao era - the 1980s and 1990s." (Nicole Wang '26)


"On Mao Zedong's Model Of Popular Art", Ming-Lu Gao 高名潞 Sep 2025

"On Mao Zedong's Model Of Popular Art", Ming-Lu Gao 高名潞

Zhou Documents

In this essay, Gao Ming-lu analyzes the state of avant-garde and modern art during the era of Mao Zedong's regime. Written in traditional Chinese, the essay is broken up into two subsections: "Maoist Pop-Art and Authoritarian Art" and "The Development of Maoist Pop-Art". (Nicole Wang '26)


Kenyon Collegian - September 18, 2025 Sep 2025

Kenyon Collegian - September 18, 2025

The Kenyon Collegian

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Kenyon Collegiate - September 12, 2025 Sep 2025

Kenyon Collegiate - September 12, 2025

Kenyon Collegiate

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Regarding Chinese Conceptual Art (Essay), Da-Wei Fei 费大为 Sep 2025

Regarding Chinese Conceptual Art (Essay), Da-Wei Fei 费大为

Zhou Documents

This is an essay, titled "On Conceptual Art in China," written by the Paris-based art critic about the origin and state of Chinese Conceptual Art. The corresponding document is an abstract of the essay written by Zhou Yan. (Nicole Wang '26).


Resume, Da-Wei Fei 费大为 Sep 2025

Resume, Da-Wei Fei 费大为

Zhou Documents

Resume of Fei Da-Wei, a Paris-based Chinese art critic and curator (in English). (Nicole Wang'26).


Kenyon Collegian - September 11, 2025 Sep 2025

Kenyon Collegian - September 11, 2025

The Kenyon Collegian

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Kenyon Collegian - September 4, 2025 Sep 2025

Kenyon Collegian - September 4, 2025

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.


Let’S Teach More Accurate And Inclusive History! The Case Of Islamic Contributions To Mathematics And Science, Noah (Nuh) Aydin Jul 2025

Let’S Teach More Accurate And Inclusive History! The Case Of Islamic Contributions To Mathematics And Science, Noah (Nuh) Aydin

Faculty Publications

Schools commonly teach a history of mathematics and science that is Eurocentric. This selective version of the history of science, called Classical Narrative by some, is rooted in colonial times and mindset, and has reinforced certain negative opinions about other cultures. It ignores or downplays contributions to mathematics and sciences from non-western civilizations, and falsely attributes many scientific discoveries to European scholars. Medieval Islamic Civilization, which had strong connections to Renaissance Europe, serves as a clear example of how this narrative is distorted. Based on research on primary sources since the middle of the 20th century, we now know that …


Cip Final Impact Report, Center For Innovative Pedagogy Jun 2025

Cip Final Impact Report, Center For Innovative Pedagogy

Annual Reports and Newsletters

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Commencement 2025 May 2025

Commencement 2025

Commencement Programs

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Kenyon Collegiate - May 9, 2025 May 2025

Kenyon Collegiate - May 9, 2025

Kenyon Collegiate

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Kenyon Collegian - May 1, 2025 May 2025

Kenyon Collegian - May 1, 2025

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.


Kenyon Collegian - April 24, 2025 Apr 2025

Kenyon Collegian - April 24, 2025

The Kenyon Collegian

No abstract provided.


Kenyon Collegiate - April 18, 2025 Apr 2025

Kenyon Collegiate - April 18, 2025

Kenyon Collegiate

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Kenyon College - April 17, 2025 Apr 2025

Kenyon College - April 17, 2025

The Kenyon Collegian

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Diagram: The Yellow River Project, Qiang Chen 陈强 Apr 2025

Diagram: The Yellow River Project, Qiang Chen 陈强

Zhou Documents

This is a diagram of the installation art "Yellow River", which was created from 1994 to 1996. The installation consists of water, earth, and rock samples from the Yellow River. The earth and rock samples were taken from the Yellow River basin from the origin to the estuary, and the 99 water samples came from 99 different sections of the Yellow River, which "compose a microcosm of the Yellow River" (For more information of this work, see https://digital.kenyon.edu/zhoudocs/27/). (Yifan Shang '25)