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Administration, Education, Research

Donald E.​ Brown

Founding Director
School of Data Science
W.S. Calcott Professor
Department of Systems and Information Engineering
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Related Projects
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Helping Companies Better Manage Customer Relationships

Boosting customer retention for software-as-a-service companies with an XGBoost model
2017
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Think Like a Fraudster to Prevent Credit Card Fraud

Using an adversarial learning approach to predict a fraudster’s next move
2017
Security system
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Detecting and Minimizing Network Intrusions

Studying real-time traffic data from the UVA network to test the performance of intrusion detection
2017
Busy crowd
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What Can Twitter Tell Us About How Urban Populations Interact?

Analyzing tweets from three metropolitan areas to study large temporal trends for a city as a whole
2017
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How to Improve Negotiation Between Groups with Different Beliefs

Applying performative analysis to predict linguistic rigidity in political, social and religious groups
2017
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How to Integrate Vast Quantities and Types of Military Data

A model to fuse massive amounts of contextual data from the Department of Defense
unite the right rally
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Analyzing social media to assess extremist group threats

MSDS 2018 Cohort students Kia Duan, Nitesh Prakash, Duncan Rule and Ni Zhuang worked to create a program that could more accurately assess threat levels from rallies and protests led by extremist groups.
2018
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Siri, translate 劳驾

Master of Science in Data Science capstone project researchers Vaibhav Sharma, Beni Shpringer, Sung Min Yang, and Martin Bolger, along with Ph.D. students Sodiq Adewole and Erfaneh Gharavi, sought to develop new methods for collecting, generating, and labeling data to aid in the creation of educational, free-input dialogue simulations.
2019