Two Boise State doctorate students, Evi Ofekeze and Ibrahim Olalekan Alabi, are working with Research Computing to analyze Kickstarter videos. The students are looking at how a person’s vocal pitch and loudness in a video campaign correlates to the likelihood of receiving funding.
“The work with the College of Business at BSU aligns with our goal of advancing the use of machine learning in various research domains,” said Ofekeze.
“We are also able to perform advanced data analytical techniques in social science research,” said Alabi. “This indicates the scalability of ML techniques.”
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