Current projects

We are currently seeking new sponsors for the Fall 2023 semester. Please see the sponsors page for information about sponsoring a project, and the project archive for information about past projects.

Project archive

Previous capstone sponsors
Term Sponsor Title Students
Spring 2023 Birkbeck College Open Research Working Group CitationProfileR: A Tool for Automating the Creation of Diversity Statements of Academic Papers Adriana Beltran Andrade ’23, Mackie Zhou ’23, Lika Mikhelashvili ’23, Rithika Devarakonda ’23
Spring 2023 Bluebonnet Data Investigating local election data to assess long-term political landscapes Junru Wu ’23, Naylynn Tañón Reyes ’23, Salwa Ouachtouki ’23, Esa Schenck ’23, Lillian Fok ’23
Spring 2023 Candlewood Valley Trout Unlimited/Pootatuck Watershed Association Analysis of Water and Temperature Quality in Newton, Connecticut Region Selin Kubali ’23, Teia Shannon ’23, Runpeng Hu ’23, Yesugen Baatartogtokh ’23
Spring 2023 Dance Data Project Analysis of Dance Data Company Endowments, Assets, and Labor in the United State Rose Evard ’23, Ruth Button ’23, Quinn White ’23, Zhen Nie ’23
Spring 2023 National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at Rutgers University Designing an R Package for Automating NIEER Website Visualizations Alysa Juarez ’23, Clara Li ’23, Shevaughn Holness ’23, Elda Cervantes ’23
Spring 2023 R for the Rest of Us Designing and Automating an Internal Dashboard for R for the Rest of Us Yanning Tan ’23, Sarian Akhdar ’23, Jiaqi Li ’23, Jiselle Ramirez ’23
Spring 2023 The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Predicting Lending in Arizona, Ohio, and Kansas Using Local Cimatological Data Michele Sezgin ’23, Naomi Liftman ’23, Alison Gu ’23, Jane Andrews ’23, Kate Phan ’23
Fall 2022 Asian Law Caucus Examining the Causal Impact of Section 14201 of the California Election Code on Voter Turnout Rachel Aliwalas ’23, Abbie Benfield ’23, Catherine Park ’23, Yangzi Yang ’23
Fall 2022 Blue Cross Blue Shield Minnesota Modeling for Hierarchical Condition Categories Swaha Bhattacharya ’23, Lily Diao ’23, Shay Iyer ’23, Michiru Nozawa ’23
Fall 2022 IBM Storm Chasers: Synthesizing New England Weather Data on a Dashboard for Emergency Response Workers (winners of CAUSE & ASA 2022 Fall Undergraduate Research Project Competition) Katelyn Diaz ’23, Irene Foster ’23, Sunshine Schneider ’23, Caitlin Timmons ’23J
Fall 2022 JockMKT Jock MKT: Daily Fantasy Sports Strategies and User Analysis Vibha Gogu ’23, Annah Mutaya ’23, Sasha Yeutseyeva ’23
Fall 2022 The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Reddit Sentiment Analysis on Cryptocurrency and Market Participation Vivian Almaraz ’23, Elina Gordon Halpern ’23, Sonia Paredes ’23, Liwen Xu ’23J
Fall 2022 The Metropolitan Council Designing a User-Friendly Climate Change Scenario Planning Tool for the Transportation Sector Naomi Giancola ’23, Hongtong Lin ’23J, Dabria Ren ’23J, Christina Sherpa ’23
Fall 2022 Women @ the Table Analysis of Access to Emergency Funds in Sub-Saharan Countries: A Human Rights-Based Approach Margaret Bassney ’23J, AJ Haller ’23J, Alejandra Munoz ’23, Rose Porta ’23
Spring 2022 Bluebonnet Data A Comprehensive Tool to Assist Canvassers in Registering Voters in the State of Florida Michelle Flesaker ’22, Kathleen Hablutzel ’23J, Syrine Matoussi ’22, Ananda Montoly ’22, Emma Vejcik ’22
Spring 2022 [redacted] NFTs: Discerning Real Value from the Hype Chichi Wu ’22, Kristina Ngema ’22, Taylor Zhang ’22, Renee Wu ’22, Elle Jo Whalen ’22
Spring 2022 Recursion Pharmaceuticals Accelerate Drug Discovery Against SARS-CoV-2 Infection Emilia Field ’22, Shirley Zhang ’22, Emma Gardecki ’22, Neyda Carillo ’22, Annika Backer ’22
Spring 2022 Women @ the Table Does the COMPAS Needle Always Point Towards Equity? Finding Fairness in the COMPAS Risk Assessment Algorithm: A Case Study Amrita Acharya ’23J, Dianne Caravela ’22, Eunice Kim ’22, Emma Kornberg ’22, Elisabeth Nesmith ’22
Spring 2022 de Wet Lab Calibration, Validation, and Radiation: Predicting Biogenic Silica and Organic Carbon Percentages in Lake Sediment Core Samples Rana Gahwagy ’22, Lauren Meyer ’22, Grace Hartley ’22
Fall 2021 Barresi Lab Developing Data Analysis Tools for Zebrafish Data in IMARIS Catherine Kung ’22J, Summer Yu ’23J, Haley Schmidt ’22, Carol Milton ’22
Fall 2021 [redacted] An R Shiny Dashboard for Model Performance Assessment in Healthcare Data Analysis Natalia Iannucci ’22, Sunni Raleigh ’22, Tina Liu ’22, Allison Xia ’22, Anushree Goswami ’22
Fall 2021 [redacted] Monitoring finanical institutions’ reputation risk through Twitter sentiment analysis Marium Tapal ’22, Annabel Yim ’22J, Vivienne Maxwell ’22J, Sungwoo Hwang ’22, Lily Jin ’22
Fall 2021 The Urban Institute Balancing Data Privacy Data Utility - A Case Study of Vermont Wayne Ndlovu ’22, Ivy Chen ’22, Alexis Reveron ’22, Seren Smith ’22, Sanjana Sunder ’22
Spring 2021 Education Analytics Effects of Community Factors on School Achievement in Massachusetts 2019 Hana Hirano ’21, Olivia Handoko ’21, Rachel Yan ’22J, Rekik Worku ’21, Sakaiza Rasolofomana-Rajery ’21
Spring 2021 GoDaddy The Impact of School Reopening Plan on Venture Density during COVID-19 Kristen Huang ’21, Sarah Wu ’21, Kelly Shen ’21
Spring 2021 [redacted] Investigating Cartridge Failure for the [redacted] Lauren Forando ’21, Sarah Gillespie ’22J, Truc Tran ’21, Irene Xu ’21
Spring 2021 National Football League Analyzing the NFL Sideline: A Statistical Toolkit for Exploring Off-Field Player Relationships, Cliques, Interactions, and Their Connection to Game Outcomes Audrey Bertin ’21, Lilly Campbell ’21, Talia Seshaiah ’21, Hannah Snell ’21
Spring 2021 Streeteasy Predicting Real Estate Prices in New York City Using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Algorithms Lauren Low ’21, Dayana Meza ’21, Emma Scott ’21, Xian (Elaine) Ye ’21, Yanwan Zhu ’22J
Spring 2021 The Metropolitan Council Spatial Analysis of Extreme Heat and other Climate Change Measures in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area Isabel Gomez ’21, Chhring Lama ’21, Karina Lieb ’21, Roshni Patnayakuni ’21, Madison Williams ’21
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Spring 2020 Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability CEEDS Weather Dashboard Jane Bang ’20, Fatima Keita ’20, Genel McLean ’20
Spring 2020 NFL The National Football League: An Analysis of Thurday Night Football Anna Ballou ’20, Lizette Carpenter ’20, Elaona Lemoto ’20, Valerie Medina Cebreros ’20, Aoi Ogawa ’20
Spring 2020 Sunrise Movement Analysis of Sunrise Movement 2019 Fall Field Program Data Alina Barylsky ’20, Sophia Foster ’20, Emma Livingston ’20, Vanessa Simplice ’20
Spring 2020 The Metropolitan Council Carbon Sequestration of Forested Area in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area Julia Bouzaher ’20, Jessica Keast ’20, Serene Lee ’20, Ann Mudanye ’20
Spring 2020 [redacted] Smith College Communicating COVID-19 Emily Daubenspeck ’20, Yejin Hwang ’20, Jeny Kwon ’20, Whitney Mutalemwa ’20
Fall 2019 EBSCO Information Services Author Disambiguation Maggie Carttar ’20, Christina Lyu ’20J, Danica Miguel ’20
Fall 2019 HerHoopStats Predicting Point Differential of WNBA Games Arielle Dror ’20, Jordan Moody ’20, Clara Rosenberg ’20, Sophia Tannir ’20
Fall 2019 [redacted] Investigating Cartridge Failure for the [redacted] Phuong Chau ’20J, Maddie Haines ’20, Yifan Ma ’20, Isabel Zamudio-Moore ’20
Fall 2019 OpenElections Methods for Freeing Public Election Data from PDFs Karen Santamaria ’20, Kara VanAllen ’20, Maggie Wang ’20, Tiffany Xiao ’20J
Fall 2019 [redacted] The Search for Actionablity in Evaulator’s Comments of Teachers Mariama Jaiteh ’20, Margaret Perry ’20, Irene Ryan ’20
Spring 2019 Barresi Lab Cranium Ziwei (Crystal) Zang ’20, Yujia (Emma) Ning ’19, Kalynn Kosyka ’19
Spring 2019 Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability CEEDS Weather Dashboard Julia Lee ’19, Marta Garcia ’19, Mirella Hernandez ’19
Spring 2019 Community Labor United The Graphical Analysis on the Gap between Supply and Demand for Early Ed Childcare Services Jocelyn Hu ’19, Kat Kyuchukova ’19, Paige Patrick AC
Spring 2019 Praava Health Bangladesh Limited Data Forensics and Database Exploration Using SQL Stella Li ’19, Lily Qian ’19, Cas Sweeney ’19
Spring 2019 ProPublica Data collection of doctors recommended by the US immigration offices using web scraping techniques in R Rutendo Madziwo ’19, Margaret Szlosek ’19, Rachel LaFlamme ’20J
Spring 2019 Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Zixian Li ’19, Jingyi Liu ’19, Yue Kuang ’19
Spring 2019 an anonymous NBA team Approximating RPM Values of Basketball Players Stephanie Foukaris ’19, Cindy Lu ’19, Nancy Yun ’19
Spring 2018 Barresi Lab Classification of Wild type and Mutant Zebrafish Brains via Computational Method Dejia Tang ’18, Shuli Hu ’18, Ji Young Yun ’18, Wencong (Priscilla) Li ’18
Spring 2018 HuffPost Classifying Socially Impactful Articles Syeda Zainab Aqdas Rizvi ’18, Julianna Alvord ’19, Minji Kang ’18, Erina Fukuda ’18
Spring 2018 Massachusetts Voter Table Improving on Demographic Predictions based on Surname and Geolocation Katie Lemiesz ’18, Yi Wang ’19, Grace Zhan ’18