I’m curious if the popularity of Biblically-inspired baby names has changed over time. We’re able to explore this question using the babynames package in R, which contains historical data from the U.S. Social Security Administration ranging back to 1880. It contains information on the number of babies born with a certain name in a given year, the sex of those babies, the year they were born, and their name (obviously).

Which presidential candidates are discussed most frequently in the American news media? How has candidate popularity changed over time?

How do presidential candidates differ in their use of Twitter to publicize policy positions, garner support, and participate in the political arena? Are certain types of Tweets more effective at attracting support, as evidenced by a greater number of Tweet interactions?

Is a given job's income correlated to its likelihood of automation? Are jobs which are predominantly less educated more or less likely to be automated? How many workers are in the industries that will be automated?

This project asks the following questions: Are traditionally underrepresented groups more likely to migrate into or out of STEM majors? What discrepancies are present between different demographic groups?