Women with autism face significant employment challenges due to being women and being with autism. We know very little in the way of research about their experiences. In the "Untold Story" we analyze 40 threads in the Career and Employment Category from the Reddit discussion group 'AsperGirls'. We use Annabi and Lebovitz (2018) Organizational Interventions Mitigating Individual Barriers Framework (OIMIB) to depict the barriers women with autism experience, the individual methods they use to mitigate the barriers, and the role organizational interventions play in mitigating these barriers. Our analysis reveals their stories and the unique challenges and opportunities they experience.

Captain David Wilsey, M.D., was one of 27 doctors who entered Dachau concentration camp during its liberation in April 1945. They spent the next month giving medical care to former prisoners. The liberated prisoners were quarantined to prevent the spread of disease. These physicians risked their lives to bring healing to the 30,000 survivors. During his deployment, Wilsey wrote more than 280 letters home. This collection brings these materials together online for the first time. It involved metadata creation, digital curation, community engagement, and educational resource creation. The collection will be housed online permanently for the Holocaust Center for Humanity.

The DCC Curation Lifecycle model is a conceptual model created in 2009 to facilitate curation and preservation activities. Since its initial creation, the context of data (e.g. the emergence of Big Data) has changed dramatically. In this project, I studied the needs and possible fields for updating this model through a close examination of literature about the original model, relevant research and data lifecycle models, and interview materials. Based on the implications of the four most relevant lifecycle models studied, recommendations on the transformation of model structure and content are made.

In small, mid-sized clinics, inventory management is a chore that takes valuable resources away from more important tasks. Our project aims to streamline this task in the healthcare space by making it more accessible and updatable. By creating a reactive web app, we intend to make item logging and status almost instantly accessible through each users personal device. This makes it easy for the entire medical staff to locate, refill, and reorder essential medical supplies. By diversifying the accessibility to item inventory and locations, we hope to improve the flow of daily operations within the medical space.

Millennials have the lowest voter turnout, despite being the 2nd largest generation of voters. Having identified that millennials are largely unsatisfied with their knowledge in local politics, our project addresses bottlenecks in the political education pipeline. We aim to alleviate voting friction for young adults by providing sharable, eye-catching content, that passively informs viewers on relevant political issues. TL;DR is an automated platform that generates succinct, engaging videos from user input. Government officials can input state initiative information, and create videos that display the given data in an engaging, informative manner, that can easily be distributed on social media.

SightLife’s mission is to end corneal blindness by 2040. Millions of people around the world currently struggle to live with corneal blindness. It's a treatable condition with a clear solution: a corneal transplant. Our project is to design a system to simplify data entry and analysis for SightLife and their 32 partners so SightLife can better assist the partners in making decisions regarding cornea donations and cornea transplants. We are harnessing the power of a cloud based solution, using Azure to host our database, and PowerBI to ultimately improve data entry efficiency and allowing users to have flexible data analytics.

The current methodologies of planning travel are time-consuming, inefficient, and uninspired. To address this issue, our team created a unique web platform that fosters a community of travelers who are able to discover, plan, and share their perfect trip itineraries: Travelroo. Travelroo alleviates the pain points of travel, which will lead to memorable travel experiences and travel inspiration for our users. With the guidance and resources from the iSchool program, our team was able to produce a unique and much-needed trip planning solution in the crowded travel industry.

Many people in the gaming industry are not aware of the symptoms and prevalence of mental illness. As a result, it often goes unnoticed or misappropriated. We believe that the gaming community will benefit from our platform through telling a story about mental illness. In our own experiences, we haven’t felt that the gaming industry has been an inclusive space. Our solution is to create a video game that tells a story about mental health through the lens of games and gaming. Users will be informed about important aspects of mental illness while enjoying an entertaining game.

How to teach data science effectively is still largely unknown, as is the experience of educators in this field. Many data science instructors transition from practitioner roles, and understanding their experience during this transition may inform us of ways to support these individuals. To study this, I transitioned from data science practitioner to educator and tracked the experience with journal entries. The study found that I encountered many challenges, mainly surrounding issues of teaching in a higher education context, caring about others opinions, and difficulty distinguishing identity between peer, TA, or instructor.

Cataloging streaming audio resources ensures streaming audio content is accessible and discoverable. However, many records do not adhere to standardized file formats. These errors cause increased workload and lost work hours. Enhancement of streaming audio metadata can be addressed in multiple ways: facilitating metadata conversations with content providers, original cataloging of streaming audio resources, and creating recommended best practices. This project focuses primarily on creating best practices and demonstrating those practices in original cataloging records. Through establishing best practices for creating streaming audio metadata, this project takes an important first step toward improving accessibility and discoverability of streaming audio resources.