Projects

 
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A Higher Revelation: An Algorithmic Predictor of User Music Preferences

After learning that Spotify offers an API for developers, I saw an opportunity for my love of data science to intersect with my love of music. Using this API, I analyzed my music preferences and trained machine learning algorithms to predict whether I would enjoy a given track.


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Wherefore Art Thou, RShiny?

I teamed up with classmate Melissa Zavez to create this interactive application for our Data Science class. This app was designed to help users streamline the decision-making process behind the planning that leads up to a date. Our classmates voted this project as Best Use of Interactivity.


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A Rose is a Rose is a Rose

For our Data Science class, my classmate Charlie Levitt and I studied how the student bodies of Ivy League colleges varied from those of public colleges within our home states. We also took a glimpse at the differential effects of the Great Recession on how students at these schools financed their education.

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The Economics of Majoring in Economics

My classmate Jonathan Kay and I teamed up to explore the financial payouts of different college majors across the United States. The contents of this project were used to help me win a debate with my mother, which speaks to the quality of the analysis performed by Jon and me.


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The Evolution of Major League Offenses

Unsure of what to do with my newly-found free time between the end of a semester and the start of an internship, I decided to create this interactive app to allow users to visualize historical trends in various measures of Major League offensive production over time.


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Principal Component Analysis Tutorial

With my classmates Andrew Choe and Jon Kay, I wrote this tutorial explaining the concept of principal component analysis and how to implement this analysis technique in R.