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 (and which will hopefully eventually become a standalone intermediate data science text).
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, and serve as Director for Admissions for MIDS and care deeply about (and have written on) thoughtful approaches to admissions.