Data Analysis Projects

While in the Data Analytics and Computational Social Science (DACSS) program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, I took the following graduate-level courses: Data Science Fundamentals, Intro to Quantitative Analysis, Research Design, Survey Research Methods, and Text as Data. Several of these courses included final projects, which are all featured below.

Before and After Roe: Tracing Partisan Polarization and the Shifting Landscape of Congressional Discourse on Abortion

Research poster for DACSS 758: Text as Data. Implemented sentiment analysis and structural topic modeling (STM) on speeches made in Congress to assess shifts in legislative…

Dec 6, 2023

Justine Shakespeare

From Christopher to Oliver: Exploring Generational Shifts in Baby Name Data

Final project submission for DACSS 601: Data Science Fundamentals. Performed exploratory data analysis and data visualization to analyse patterns and trends in data on baby…

May 22, 2023

Justine Shakespeare

Maternal Mortality and Women’s Political Inclusion: Exploring the impact and pathways of gender equality on maternal health

Final project submission for DACSS 603: Intro to Quantitative Analysis. Applied multiple linear regression to estimate the effect of women’s political inclusion on maternal…

May 18, 2023

Justine Shakespeare

Maternal Mortality and Women’s Political Inclusion: Exploring the impact and pathways of gender equality on maternal health (Poster)

Research Poster for DACSS 603: Intro to Quantitative Analysis.

May 18, 2023

Justine Shakespeare