https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6919-4230Contribution to Project: Cloie Corley worked as a Research Assistant at the SSRC during the development and implementation of the DataViz project, assisting with multiple projects that utilized Python data analysis and retrieval techniques, including the DataViz project itself She is often referred to as the “data wizard” on the projects she assists with, thanks to her experience in managing large datasets and producing engaging visualizations that effectively communicate the story.
For the DataViz project, she regularly adapted the database to meet the team’s evolving needs, often by generating visualizations that revealed underlying patterns and informed subsequent steps. One of the visualizations revealed how much content was being overlooked without translation, highlighting the critical need for multilingual support. In response, Corley developed a Python script to identify all languages in the database and then assisted with translation efforts programmatically. She then led the initiative to apply sentiment analysis to the fully translated database of nearly 15 million posts, improving the analytical capability of the tool and meeting one of the project’s main deliverables. In the project’s final stages, Corley also co-developed the topic modeling user guides, helping users to intuitively understand the processes behind the tool’s topic modeling algorithms.