Case Studies

Case studies provide examples of how real-world research projects can benefit from integrating the lenses and the stages

Estimating Population with Cell Phone Records

An introductory example where we apply each of the four conceptual lenses to just one phase of the data science lifecycle.

Paying Your Share?

How a data-centered journalistic investigation revealed corruption, opaque and unfair tax practices in major cities in the USA.

Crowd the Tap: People Protecting Our Tap Water

Crowd the Tap is a citizen science project, the first U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-funded project that promotes access to safe drinking water by empowering individuals and groups to investigate the piping infrastructure that delivers drinking water to their homes.