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Rafael​ Alvarado

General Faculty
Data Science Institute
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Data Science Institute
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Can Cultural Context Be Modeled?

Sentiment analysis for sources relying on nationalistic subtexts
2017
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Improving the Retrieval of Naval Intelligence

Developing a database to help analysts store and process requests for intelligence
2017
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Detecting a disturbance in the Force

A person walking quietly through a park might never be heard by others, but if a flock of birds flies away as the person passes it is revealed that someone is there. Technology capable of discovering quiet agents in real-time, using machines to analyze environments, could prove immensely useful.
2018
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Improving access to open science

MSDS '18 students Jack Prominski and Pragati Shah, led by faculty advisor and DSI professor Rafael Alvarado, undertook a capstone project to improve an automated system that matches PLOS article manuscripts with appropriate editors.
2018
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Of Trolls and Troublemakers

For their 2019 capstone project, DSI Master of Science in Data Science students Charu Rawat, Arnab Sarkar, and Sameer Singh proposed a framework to understand and detect online harassment in the English Wikipedia community.
2019
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Connecting citizens with public data to drive policy change

Master of Science in Data Science researchers Lucas Beane and Elena Gillis undertook a capstone project to investigate possible reasons for the stagnation of the Cville Open Data Portal.
2019