MIT Data Diggers: Uncovering Data Across the Institute

This proposal describes a new way for undergraduate students at MIT to engage in statistical analysis and data visualization across a variety of topics. In brief, the project would establish teams of interdisciplinary undergraduate "Data Diggers" charged with making sense of interesting data sets from across the Institute, cleaning them, and rendering them meaningful (and beautiful) through the use of exploratory and inferential analysis techniques and tools. At the end of each semester, the results of these explorations will be presented at a grand, celebratory "Dig-In."