15.071  The Analytics Edge (H1)

Data from Projects

Hi All,

If your data was freely available, we would greatly appreciate it if you could send us the data files you used if you have not done so already (preferably as csv or excel files). We were very impressed with the projects, and would love to be able to use your projects as examples for future classes.

I hope that the end of your semester goes well!

Best,
Allison

Announced on 08 May 2012  9:10  a.m. by Allison Kelly O'Hair

Results of Project Votes

Hi to all,

First and foremost, I would like to take the opportunity to thank everybody for their efforts in the "Analytics Edge". There were many projects that were worthy of consideration, but unfortunately we had only 3 hours so we restricted ourselves to 11. The projects were diverse, very interesting and entertaining. I personally had a lot of fun. I hope you did too.

Even though, I said we would select 2 or possibly 3 projects as the "winners", both the students votes and the teaching team's votes agreed that 4 projects were worthy to be the "winners":

The Prostate Cancer Detection project by John Silberholz, Nate Stewart, and Erik Tautkus
The Student Loans project by Nadav Gan, Dario Salas, and Nataly Youssef
The Perceptions of Stock Prices project by Chris Stocking
The Taxis project by Beto Juarez, Lauren Kaplan, and John Kessler

Many thanks to all again,

Dimitris

Announced on 18 April 2012  11:17  p.m. by Allison Kelly O'Hair

Final Voting Instructions for this Evening

After the presentations this evening, we will be asking everyone to rank the projects in order of preference. You will need to access the following Google Doc:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDhjSHBuX1ZpUUN5UlpUYWEyT1k1VlE6MQ#gid=0

If you don't have internet access in the classroom, I will have some hard copies of the form for you to use.

PLEASE DO NOT FILL OUT THE FORM BEFORE THE LAST PROJECT IS FINISHED THIS EVENING!

We will see you soon for some exciting presentations on analytics!

Announced on 18 April 2012  6:33  p.m. by Allison Kelly O'Hair

Project Presentation Attendance on Wednesday

Just a clarification that we expect all students in the class to attend the project presentations on Wednesday, not just those who are presenting (7pm-10pm on Wednesday, April 18 in E62-276).

As listed in the syllabus, 50% of your final grade is the project, 30% is the homework, and 20% is participation (including participation on Wednesday).

Announced on 16 April 2012  8:49  p.m. by Allison Kelly O'Hair

Final Project Presentations and Reports

Hi to all,

Given the time constraints for the project presentations, we used your votes and ours and came up with a list of 11 projects that represent a broad spectrum of subjects, which we think will make the 3 hours quite exciting.

These projects are:

1) "Predicting the U.S. Presidential Election" by Tyler Carlin, Brian Crimmel, and Peter Sellis
2) "Improving Prostate Cancer Detection Using Analytics" by John Silberholz, Nate Stewart, and Erik Tautkus
3) "Modeling Success of Start-ups" by David Fagnan, David Rabinowitz, and Deike Diers
4) "Predictive Policing" by Iain Dunning, Jose Holguin-Veras, and Sohana Punithakumar
5) "Ironman Championship Qualifying Strategy" by Abhijit Chandrasekaran, Johnny Jesson, Kristel Kurtz, and Eric Robinson
6) "Impact of Employee Diversity on Company/Industry Performance" by Brian Murrihy and Katherine Shamraj
7) "Drync Recommendation Website" by Robert Hale, Allessandro Labelli, and Daniel Rodriguez
8) "Who Defaults on Student Loans?" by Nadav Gan, Dario Salas, and Nataly Youssef
9) "Can taxi's be more profitable by using analytics?" by Beto Juarez, Lauren Kaplan, and John Kessler
10) "Demographic Influences on Perceptions of Future Stock Price Movements" by Chris Stocking
11) "What Keeps Sloanies Fit?" by Rashi Gupta, Alice Francis, John Lawrence and Tushar Kumar

The presentations will be from 7pm-10pm this Wednesday, April 18, in E62-276. Everyone should turn in their final project reports no later than 7pm on Wednesday. One member from each team will need to upload your report to Stellar, in the "Final Project Report" assignment under the Projects section of Materials. You will also need to bring one hard copy to class on Wednesday (you do not need to print any code or output that is in the appendix).

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR PRESENTERS:

1) Each group will have 15 MINUTES TOTAL to present, including any questions. You should prepare a presentation that will take a maximum of 12 minutes to allow for questions.

2) Please email Allison your presentation before noon on Wednesday, as a powerpoint or pdf document. We will be using one computer for all of the presentations.

3) We will go through the presentations in the order listed here on Wednesday from 7pm-10pm.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Dimitris, Allison, and Chaitanya

Announced on 14 April 2012  6:55  p.m. by Allison Kelly O'Hair