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Myfanwy Johnston edited this page Oct 18, 2016 · 6 revisions

Use this page to suggest problems/topics for competition team. If you have an idea of a type of problem you want to work on (sentiment analysis, topic modeling, etc.) or a particular dataset of interest, first check and see if anyone else has suggested it. If you find one, add your name to the list of those interested. If your idea is new, add it to the list so that others can add their names.

Possible Data Sources

  1. http://dsi.ucdavis.edu/Data/SO/

Team Ideas

  1. CENTURY Experiment database - develop streamlined method for extracting and validating 23+ years of UC Davis' Russell Ranch datasets from an Access database (100-year experiment of cropping system rotations exploring GHG mitigation and C-sequestration, fertility and irrigation, drought, soil and crop responses, tillage, operations and energy use, etc.), creating metadata, and converting to more user-friendly format that is less prone to structure errors: Kristina Wolf (I can provide access to the, well, Access database).

  2. Database on China and social change - The objective of learning is to use GIS techniques to map out social change indicators, such as divorce rate. in different regions in China across time. Datasets include: China Boundary data (provincial, prefectural and city -level boundaries) from 1949 to 2014, Individual-level Census data from 1982, 1990, 2005, and various other data sources such as statistical year books, Econ Census to describe economic and social characteristics of regions in China. (Jingjing Chen can provide data access.)

  3. How much time are our legislators spending on the presidential campaign? Similar to investigations that have been done on lost instructional time in schools, I'm interested in the question of how much of our legislator's work time is lost to the national election campaign. The data for this would be tough to find - I've only contacted one Congressperson's office so far, but they suggested that we'd have to contact each congressperson individually to see if they'd be willing to release the schedules, since they're not subject to FOIA requests. But President's past schedules are available, so perhaps we could start there. - Myfanwy Johnston (@Myfanwy)

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