Our mission is to catalyze public impact through data.
Ongoing Projects
POLLING & ANALYTICS
Parks design for diverse and resilient communities
Washington State Parks Foundation, Washington State Parks and the Polling & Open Data Initiative at the University of Washington are seeking participants from the following communities:
- Young BIPOC individuals aged 18-25 who are new to outdoor recreation
- Individuals at the intersection of BIPOC and LGBTQIA communities
- Group leaders from BIPOC-centered organizations and/or group leaders who facilitate introductory outdoor experiences for the BIPOC community
- BIPOC adults and families who are unfamiliar with state park visits and recreation and/or camping and cabins
to participate in our study in one of three ways: a brief survey, volunteering to visit a state park, or joining for journey mapping and a design charette!
POLLING & ANALYTICS
Perceptions of pandemic-motivated discrimination among Asian American students
- COVID-19 related experienced and perceived racism
- General discrimination and race relations
- Assessment of UW’s involvement in discouraging racial discrimination
Population: East and Southeast Asian American students
In partnership with: Taiwanese Student Association, Korean Student Association, Khmer Student Association, Vietnamese Student Association, and other organizations at the University of Washington
Survey group: Students on mailing lists of select East and Southeast Asian American cultural student organizations
Survey method: Online, through Catalyst WebQ
Project completion: TBD
ANALYTICS
Understanding k-12 extracurricular experiences to enable providers tailor opportunities.
In partnership with Big Picture Learning, this project aims to support high school internship opportunities by analyzing data form the ImBlaze app.
Using student entry logs (over 200,000 of them), internship requests, expansion suggestions, and more relevant data, we are deploying Natural Langauge Processing (NLP) and other explorative techniques to look into insightful trends, as well as technical data gaps at ImBlaze.
ANALYTICS
What can we learn from the City of Seattle’s Ecological Restoration Projects?
We are partnering with the City of Seattle’s Green Seattle Partnership, a restoration initiative to preserve and maintain parkland forestry across Seattle.
This collaborative project is exploring data at the initative hoping to improve restoration and volutneer programs run, as well as improve data warehousing by assessing current architecture.
Recently Completed Analytics Projects
ANALYTICS
Remote learning and post-pandemic education
We worked with Regent Kristina Pogosian to draw insights from her extensive survey on what students would like to see continued after the university returns to in-person learning.
Project release: May 6, 2021
ANALYTICS
Student perspectives on the Diversity Credit and curriculum change
The Diversity Credit is one of the most discussed elements of the University of Washington’s curriculum. We worked with ASUW, the student government, to understand student opinions on curriculum change.
Project release: June 1, 2021
Recently Completed Polling Projects
COMPLETED
Confidence, classroom preferences, and future plans among Informatics students
November 17-22, 2020
Poll closed • Report complete
The University of Washington has one of the country’s largest dedicated schools of informatics, a field of rising importance. In this poll, we will survey students on what they value in their informatics classes, the opportunities that students have been taking, future areas, and specific areas of interest, and particularly how they vary by class year and gender.
Population: Undergraduate students at the University of Washington’s Information School
Survey group: All students through mailing list
Survey method: Online, through Catalyst WebQ
Polling design: Rachael Ren, Phillip Meng, Melissa Lin, Rachel Kinkley, Hayoung Jung
Implementation: Rachel Kinkley ([email protected])
