Two statistics and data analytics students presented at the 2025 Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference held on Nov. 7, 2025.
Anna Rakes ’26 (Statistics) and Bunny Ingram ’26 (Data Analytics) presented at the Electronic Undergraduate Statistics Research Conference (eUSR) on Nov. 7, 2025 hosted by the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE) and the American Statistical Association (ASA). Both students are Honor Fellows who presented on parts of their honors research projects under the supervision of Heather Barker, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics.
Anna Rakes’ presentation titled “Replication Study of Magnet School Desegregation in Contemporary U.S. School Districts” shared the results of her replication of three large studies investigating the effectiveness of magnet schools on desegregation rates using several metrics. She found current data on three large school districts to replicate the studies and then shared how the metrics compared to the time periods of the studies then and now. This is part of a larger study for her honors thesis.
Bunny Ingram’s presentation titled “Sentiment Analysis of Religious Texts” shares how they used a text mining tool to analyze large religious texts. Sentiment analysis is a text mining tool often used in analyzing social media, online discussion forums, and business. Using sentiment analysis to analyze religious texts has not been done often. This project sought to see what patterns arose in analyzing texts of this sort. This is part of their honors research project.
Bunny was also awarded one of two Best Poster Awards for 2025 eUSR! Anna and Bunny’s presentation can be viewed online, along with the other presentations at the conference.