Online Deliberation Mapping Tool
Description: This project is designed to provide instructors and students with a tool to curate, monitor and administer asynchronous student-created deliberations online. Similar to already available tools such as debategraph.org and AGORA, our application gives users the ability to agree, disagree and question posts made during a deliberation process. It also allows users to analyze the development of deliberations using time sliders to show how these deliberations have developed over time. This team’s goal is to create a stable online environment for classroom use based on deliberation activities.
Contact:
Justin Lonsbury
Executive Approval Database
Description: Working with Professor Ryan Carlin in Political Science, SIF fellows are developing the capacity to study the perception of political leaders, particularly in Latin America, by aggregrating polling data into large data-sets and building visualisations of the results.
Contact:
Thomas Breideband
Latin American Branding
Description: This project looks at the efforts of Latin American countries to build tourist brands via social media, particularly Facebook and Twitter. Scraping data from both sites, the goal is to understand how natives and visitors react to these marketing campaigns.
Contact:
Thomas Breideband
FINISHED PROJECTS:
Aerial Mapping
Description: Combining expertise with Robotics well as High End computing resources available in CURVE, Student Innovation Fellows were able to perform multiple 3d scene reconstructions at a landscape scale. By combining thousands of aerial images captured by Unmanned Aerial Systems in 3D “Structure From Motion” or SfM software, Student Innovation Fellows are able to generate Point Clouds, Digital Elevation Models and Meshes in incredible detail. These reconstructions have applications in Archaeology, Geosciences and Historic Preservation.
Contact:
Katie Price
Jeffrey Glover
Tobacco Ebook
Description: The School of Public Health, using the Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science grant, has asked this SIF team to make an Ebook of their book on the effects of tobacco. The book is titled Principles of Tobacco Control: Extinguishing the Habit. Much of the work the Tobacco Ebook team is doing is layout and design using iBooks Author and Tableau. Using Tableau, the team is able to take the data provided and recreate charts and graphs that include custom color palates, consistent visuals, so that the visuals are not previously copyrighted materials, but are beautiful and well designed. The team is pushing Tableau to its limits from a graphic design standpoint to accomplish visual requirements. When Tableau doesn’t do the job, they use Adobe Illustrator, or other software to make infographics.