My Personal Zoom Link: https://duke.zoom.us/my/nickeubank
My Office: Gross Hall Second Floor, Room 231 (Right behind Connection Cafe area, look for comics on the wall).
I am an Assistant Research Professor in the Duke Department of Political Science and Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) where I study a range of topics related to political accountability, including gerrymandering, social networks, election administration, and race and incarceration.
I am also a faculty member and Admissions Chair for the Duke Masters in Interdisciplinary Data Science (MIDS), and an Associate Director of the Rhodes Information Initiative at Duke.
I am passionate about empowering students of all backgrounds to use the tools of data science to solve real-world problems.
Within MIDS, I teach two courses in the first-year MIDS curriculum. The first is Practical Data Science (IDS 720), a flipped-classroom, exercise-focused course designed to give students practical experience wrangling and analyzing messy, real-world data using the tools of a professional data scientist. The second is Unifying Data Science (IDS 701), a course focused on helping students bridge the gap between abstract, technical classroom exercises and real-world problems.
I am also working on two data science texts based on the content I have developed for these courses: a practical introduction to using Python for data science (based on my Practical Data Science course), and Data Science for Humans (based on my Unifying Data Science Course).
I also run a Computations Methods for Social Scientists bootcamp for incoming social science graduate students from Political Science, Sociology, and the Nicholas School for Environmental Policy, I have developed GIS in R tutorials you can find here, and I’m the co-instructor on a Coursera specialization on Python Data Science Foundations with my colleagues Kyle Bradbury, Drew Hilton, and Genevieve Lipp.