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For the past several years, our team has been developing and implementing curriculum and tools for integrating sports in data science learning experiences. We have developed a collection of activities and tools that we are eager to share with the larger data science community. The purpose of this session is to give participants an opportunity to explore some of these tools and activities in community with other data science educators and learners. The workshop will also serve as a space to try designing some new activities and ideate future directions for this work within the specific contexts of each workshop participant. Hence, we propose this workshop as a set of resources and a community that might spur new ideas that participants can adapt and extend based on the goals, needs, and affordances of their respective contexts. 

Background: Little is known about the demographic and health correlates of secondhand cannabis smoke (SHCS) exposure, despite increased availability and use of cannabis across the U.S. This study examined the prevalence and correlates of SHCS exposure in a sample of N=5,410 adults living in Oklahoma and the association of SHCS exposure with self-reported respiratory problems. Methods: Data were from a repeated cross-sectional online survey of adults ages 18 and older who completed measurements of past 30-day SHCS exposure in the respondent’s home, in a vehicle, and/or in an indoor setting; harm perceptions of SHCS exposure; frequency of current respiratory symptoms; past 30-day use of cannabis, alcohol, and cigarettes Results: Almost half (42 %) reported past 30-day SHCS exposure. In bivariate tests, those exposed were male, younger, non- Hispanic (NH) black or Hispanic, reported lower educational and financial attainment, had lower harm perceptions of SHCS exposure, endorsed more respiratory symptoms, and reported past 30-day cannabis and cigarette use (all p’s < 0.01). In an adjusted regression model, young adulthood (ages 18–24), NH black race (vs NH White), and past 30 -day cigarette smoking and cannabis use emerged as the strongest correlates of SHCS exposure. In interaction models, respiratory symptoms were highest among those reporting past 30-day SHCS exposure and past 30-day cannabis use. Conclusion: SHCS exposure is common and associated with more frequent respiratory symptoms, particularly among cannabis users. Those exposed were more socially and economically vulnerable. 

Abstract Children’s indirect exposure to the justice system through biological parents or coresident adults is both a marker of their own vulnerability and a measure of the justice system’s expansive reach in society. Estimating the size of this population for the United States has historically been hampered by inadequate data resources, including the inability to observe nonincarceration events, follow children throughout their childhood, and measure adult nonbiological parent cohabitants. To overcome these challenges, we leverage billions of restricted administrative and survey records linked with Criminal Justice Administrative Records System data and find substantially larger exposure rates than previously reported: prison, 9% of children born between 1999–2005; felony conviction, 18%; and any criminal charge, 39%. Charge exposure rates exceed 60% for Black, American Indian, and low-income children. While broader definitions reach a more expansive population, strong and consistently negative correlations with childhood well-being suggest that these remain valuable predictors of vulnerability. Finally, we document substantial geographic variation in exposure, which we leverage in a movers design to estimate the effect of living in a high-exposure county during childhood. We find that children moving into high-exposure counties are more likely to experience postmove exposure events and exhibit significantly worse outcomes by age 26 on multiple dimensions (earnings, criminal activity, teen parenthood, mortality); effects are strongest for those who moved at earlier ages. 

This work is part of an ongoing Sports, Technology, and Learning class where computer science students and student-athletes learn different aspects of technological development, ideation, design, and prototyping in the context of sports technologies. Alongside developing these technical skills, this class also takes advantage of various media related to sports to examine and discuss utilizing such media as a contextualizing factor in deciding what to build and why. Media depictions of sports and the role of technology in the creation of narratives and innovation is an often under-examined way of furthering understandings about the social construction of numerous phenomena like race, gender, and ability. In this poster, we present and discuss a pilot assignment using Critical Media Literacy (CML) tenets as an explicit tool for engaging with media discussions in class and how it can impact learners' understandings and practices around technology ideation, design, and critique. As the students engage with the media collected for the course, such as films & television, conference & journal articles, and sports journalism, they engage people outside of the class with course content and document the engagements in an assortment of formats (e.g., writing, podcasting, videos, drawings, etc.). The discussions continue throughout the quarter, aiming to develop the student's awareness of a context at the intersection of sports and technology that will inform their final design projects. 

Form follows function throughout the development of an organism. This principle should apply beyond the organism to the nests they build, but empirical studies are lacking. Honeybees provide a uniquely suited system to study nest form and function throughout development because we can image the three-dimensional structure repeatedly and non-destructively. Here, we tracked nest-wide comb growth in six colonies over 45 days (control colonies) and found that colonies have a stereotypical process of development that maintains a spheroid nest shape. To experimentally test if nest structure is important for colony function, we shuffled the nests of an additional six colonies, weekly rearranging the comb positions and orientations (shuffled colonies). Surprisingly, we found no differences between control and shuffled colonies in multiple colony performance metrics—worker population, comb area, hive weight and nest temperature. However, using predictive modelling to examine how workers allocate comb to expand their nests, we show that shuffled colonies compensate for these disruptions by accounting for the three-dimensional structure to reconnect their nest. This suggests that nest architecture is more flexible than previously thought, and that superorganisms have mechanisms to compensate for drastic architectural perturbations and maintain colony function. 

Synopsis This study extends recent research demonstrating that the veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) can produce and detect biotremors. Chameleons were paired in various social contexts: dominance (male–male; female–female C. calyptratus); courtship (male–female C. calyptratus); heterospecific (C. calyptratus + C. gracilis); and inter-size class dominance (adult + juvenile C. calyptratus). Simultaneous video and accelerometer recordings were used to monitor their behavior and record a total of 398 biotremors. Chamaeleo calyptratus produced biotremors primarily in conspecific dominance and courtship contexts, accounting for 84.7% of the total biotremors recorded, with biotremor production varying greatly between individuals. Biotremors were elicited by visual contact with another conspecific or heterospecific, and trials in which chameleons exhibited visual displays and aggressive behaviors were more likely to record biotremors. Three classes of biotremor were identified—hoots, mini-hoots, and rumbles, which differed significantly in fundamental frequency, duration, and relative intensity. Biotremor frequency decreased with increasing signal duration, and frequency modulation was evident, especially in hoots. Overall, the data show that C. calyptratus utilizes substrate-borne vibrational communication during conspecific and possibly heterospecific interactions.