Chicago Elections

Two archives, the Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Research Center, and the New York City municipal archive, hold the nation’s two largest and most detailed sets of historical elections data in the country, both in analog forms that are virtually inaccessible to researchers. We are working to create a research database and web interface to provide research access to this data and to help shape the way historians and political scientists approach the study of urban politics.

In their analog state and in image scans, the data remains mostly inaccessible for further analysis and dissemination. By making these fine-grained, precinct-level historical election returns available digitally, cartographically, and interactively, it promises to fundamentally change the way historians study urban politics.

AntiMicrobial Resistance Natural language processing

As the notion of One Health continues to grow a group of researchers has raised concerns that disparate groups, such as academics, veterinarians, producers, and consumers, use different lexicons to describe similar topics. This language barrier may add hurdles to furthering the uptake of One Health and collaboration across groups. To test this hypothesis we are mining thousands of papers, initially from peer-reviewed journals, to analyze phrase usage, structure, changes over time, and prevalence per journal.

Opioid Epidemic Data Lake

Few resources exist that effectively combine available public data; thus, professionals and the public have difficulties in finding accurate, interoperable, and clearly visualized data and statistics on opioid at a state level. The research presents the development of a user-friendly web interface and data lake that seeks to standardize and aggregate publicly existing data about opioids in Virginia in order to expedite future opioid research and make the data relatable for public consumption.

This data lake will be used to discover Virginia state trends and relate desperate data together, as well as present a historical timeline of data surrounding opioid use and misuse in the state of VA.