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Planetary Child Health and Enterics Observatory (Plan-EO)
The Planetary Child Health and Enterics Observatory (Plan-EO) is an interdisciplinary research initiative at UVA. Its mission is to provide researchers and public health stakeholders with diverse spatial data tools for the geographical targeting of enteropathogen-specific child health interventions. The DAC collaborated with the Plan-EO team to provide secure computational resources through the Ivy secure environment to support their analyses, development of a data workflow pipeline, and to identify a hosting solution for an interactive, cloud-based geospatial dashboard. Please visit Plan-EO’s website for more information: Plan-EO
PI: Josh Colston, Division of Infectious Diseases & International Health, School of Medicine
New DAC Small Award Proposal Deadlines
The Data Analytics Center (DAC) is accepting proposals for the Small Analytics Resource Award.
If you have a computationally-intensive project and would like a collaborator, consider applying for a Small Analytics Resource Award. The DAC team is ready to support your research in AI, Bioinformatics, Image Processing, Data Analysis, Data Management, and more.
The next proposal deadline is 30 June 2025.
For details on how to apply for the Small Award, visit the Awards website
DAC Award Winners
2025 Douglas Bayliss, Department of Pharmacology
Characterizing RTN Population Activity Following Hypercapnia and Drub Challenges Using in vitro Calcium Imaging Zezhou Cheng, Department of Computer Science
Detect, Track, and Relate Anythin in 3D Nick Guagliardo, Department of Pharmacology
Analysis of Calcium Activity in Ex Vivio Adrenal Slices Yangfeng Ji, Department of Computer Science
Legal Document Analysis via Large Language Models: A Preliminary Study on Constitutional Court of Colombia Sheng Li, School of Data Science
Towards Efficient and Reliable Reasoning with Large Language Models Thomas Loughran, Division of Hematology & Oncology
LGL Leukemia Medical Data Extraction and Search Program for Translational Research Nikhil Shukla, Charles L.
DAC Analytics Resource Awards
The mission of the Data Analytics Center (DAC) is to provide UVA researchers with support for the management and analysis of large datasets on Research Computing platforms.
To fulfill this mission and to empower faculty in advancing their research, we offer Awards for access to Research Comuting (RC) resources. These Awards aim to
i) launch new research projects,
ii) promote interdisciplinary collaborations,
iii) cultivate communities of researchers with shared interests in data and analysis methods.
The Awards The DAC offers two types of Awards: Small Awards (up to $10,000 worth of services) and Large Awards (up to $100,000 of services).
Political Sentiment Analysis
The nature of political communication has been fundamentally altered by the emergence of social media. In earlier eras, social scientists, journalists, and citizens could focus on static statements by politicians and candidates in order to understand the nature of political discourse. Social scientists studying political communication would design surveys and focus groups to understand which messages were received by citizens, and with what effect. Today, as news moves to digital platforms and as political figures increasingly rely on social media, political communication is fundamentally dynamic. Studying patterns of communication among politicians, their supporters, and their critics requires scholarly focus on the content, sentiment, and framing of posts on various social media platforms.
