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Overrepresentation Of The Underrepresented: Gender Bias In Wikipedia, Anna Marinina Dec 2019

Overrepresentation Of The Underrepresented: Gender Bias In Wikipedia, Anna Marinina

Honors College Theses

The goal of our research is to determine if gender bias exists in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a very large dataset that has been used to train artificial intelligence models. If a dataset that is being used for this purpose is biased, then the artificial intelligence model that was trained with it will be biased as well, therefore making biased decisions. For this reason, it is important to explore large datasets for any potential biases before they are used in machine learning. Since Wikipedia is ontologically structured, we used graph theory to create a network of all of the website’s categories …


Building Of Mira’S Ghost Cleansing Services, Ashley Vargas May 2019

Building Of Mira’S Ghost Cleansing Services, Ashley Vargas

Honors College Theses

In this thesis, I built a PC game called Mira’s Cleansing Services. It is a sidescroller game that follows the story of a female exorcist for-hire who is also a high school student. Using ABC Scrum, a modified version of Scrum for game development, I developed the game using Game Maker. Additionally, I created all the art and music in different software. Because of time constraints and because I was working alone, I only developed the first level of the game. However, I plan to continue developing the game after this semester to eventually complete and publish it. My ultimate …