Since June, there have been seven debates, giving us hours of candidate dialogue. I scraped debate transcripts to capture every single word the candidates have uttered on stage - all 178,692 of them. I then used tf-idf to highlight three word phrases said often by one candidate but rarely by others.

How do you visualize 74 drop out predictions in one chart? You make a heatmap using D3.js!

I'm hosting a contest asking participants to predict the drop out order of the last 14 2020 Democratic primary candidates. Here's the leaderboard I designed and update every time a new candidate drops out and the current scores change, March Madness style.

A D3.js scatterplot visualizing genre measurements of over 2,000 films and utilizing scrollytelling. Additional selectors and check boxes allow the reader to manipulate the plot to showcase the data they're most interested in.

An interactive experience utilizing Javascript, D3.js, and scrollytelling to show which 2020 Democratic candidates are receiving the most attention, as measured by number of Wikipedia views, which I collected using the Wikipedia API.

After noticing some interesting patterns in the greeting card section at my local pharmacy, I web scraped over 4,000 images off Hallmark's website and determined their dominant colors by measuring the top hues of each card's canvas.

Ever wonder how I spend my time when I'm online? Now you can follow a journey through my internet browsing history...covering the span of 90 separate days in one interactive graph!

Is it possible To quantify how 'Sci-Fi' a film Is? Up until now, there’s been no quantifying movie genre classifications. A movie was either a fantasy, or it isn’t. A movie was either a horror, or it isn’t. Now, we can determine the genre composition of any film.

Which characters are the most central to the Marvel social network? Network centrality is a measure of how “central” an individual is to a network. To calculate it, I web scraped data on over 24,000 characters and their networks.

As justices act independently of their ideologies less and less, the Supreme Court could grow far more political than ever intended, threatening the legitimacy of the institution. So in the era of heightening polarization, it’s worth asking: just how “political” is the court?

Recently, I discovered that Facebook allows you to download your data they have saved on you, including every single message you’ve ever sent or received. So naturally, I downloaded my messages and got to work.

To test how female writers may affect comedy ratings, we turn to IMDb, which allows millions of users to rate movies and TV shows. For our analysis, we gathered data on IMDb’s top 100 comedy TV series.

To what extent are Denison students following Weinberg’s suggestion and diversifying their networks? In a survey administered to the student body in February of 2018, we asked students to name some of their closest friends at Denison.

Do disagreeable posts on social media stand any chance of changing opinions? Are they even looked at, or quickly glimpsed at and tossed aside? To explore willingness to engage with disagreeable content, we conducted a political study of nearly 1,400 individuals from a demographically diverse, online panel.

In a survey taken by nearly a third of the student body, 127 asked students how they felt about various individuals and groups. To measure attitudes, we used feeling thermometers, where respondents give scores ranging from 0 to 100.

Social life? Good grades? Enough sleep? With only 24 hours in a day, it’s hard to achieve all three. To investigate how Denison students address this dilemma, we surveyed nearly 600 students and asked how many hours a day they spend on the following activities: sleeping, hanging out with friends, and studying/homework.

When is the gym its busiest? And what kinds of students go there most often? We use swipe transaction data to look at when the student athletic center gets its most foot traffic. We also distributed a survey to the entire student body and merged their answers with their swipe frequencies.

Each year at Denison, there are a handful of issues that grab the attention of just enough students and spark campus-wide debate. In a survey taken by nearly a third of the student body, we measured attitudes on five different campus issues currently being debated.

Students often use majors as a heuristic for judging one another. Communication major? Probably not very smart. Bio major? Must be a bad writer. Econ major? Frat star. To better understand this phenomenon, I set out to explore how students view other majors.