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Stamps Scholar Takes Campus Pulse

Posted on February 02, 2017 by Elli Goudzwaard

With a Stamps scholarship and support from the Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Network (DEN), the Office of the President, and the DALI Lab, Terren Klein '17 worked with a team of peers to develop a way for students to access accurate data about their community.

  • Pulse App Student Team

    Terren Klein ’17 (left), Ahsan Azim ’18 (seated), Ben Packer ’17 (back), Jessie Anderson ’18, and Kyle Dotterrer ’18 gather around a computer at the DALI Lab, where the team is working on College Pulse. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Dartmouth News reports:

Klein, a government major doing an honors thesis about the use of smartphones in survey-based research, believes it’s important for online opinion polls to display results. “Data sharing has to be built into data collection,” Klein says. So Pulse users can view charts and graphs showing how the students who were surveyed feel about a wide range of topics.

“We’re changing the transactional proposition,” he says. “Instead of saying please take our survey and you get a set of headphones, or whatever, we are saying hey, you can get paid to learn what your community thinks about issues you may find personally important.”

Read the full story here.

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