Past Events
2024
Data Source: CourseKata
Project Goal: Make suggestions for the creators of CourseKata to help improve the student experience of learning statistics. This could include observations about patterns of engagement, stumbling points, clear successes, missing features, etc. The suggestions could also be directed to classroom instructors to suggest learning strategies that the data signal are underutilized or are particularly successful.
2023
Data Source: The American Bar Association
Project Goal: Help the ABA understand the types of legal questions that are asked on their pro-bono legal advice website (for low income individuals) to provide reasonable staffing solutions so as to better serve their clients.
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2022
Data Source: Play2Prevent Lab: Elm City Stories
Project Goal: Help the researchers who created the Elm City Stories, to see if their game might be useful in understanding real-life behavior of the players, to identify and display patterns in play within the game and to identify characteristics of game play that might help researchers when creating future iterations of the game to help monitor real time usage and be used to help psychology researchers.
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2021
Data Source: Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Saftey Center
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Project Goal: Discover and Identify patterns of drug use, with particular attention paid to identifying misuse.
2019
Data Source: Canadian Women's Rugby Team
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Project Goal: What advise would you give on the role of workload and fatigue in Rugby 7s?
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2018
Data Source: Indeed.com
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Project Goal: What advice would you give a new high school about what major to choose in college? How does Indeed's data compare to official government data on the labor market? Can it be used to provide good economic indicators?
2017
Data Source: Expedia.com
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Project Goal: How do visitors' searches relate to the choices of hotels booked or not booked? What role do external factors play in hotel choice?
2016
Data Source: Ticketmaster.com
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Project Goal: How can site visits be converted to ticket sales, and how can TicketMaster identify "true fans" of an artist or band?